Aaron James Young - Salem, Oregon

Website Design and Development

Web/Tech

New Website Design

Nov 26 2011 - Personal, Web/Tech

I usually roll out a new design for my website about once a year or so. The time has come once again.
At this point, there’s still a lot unfinished:

I’m going to make the website responsive – meaning it will reflow the content to fit tablet and mobile screens
I have not done any Internet Explorer testing. …

Bookmarking

Sep 19 2011 - Web/Tech

A quick site update – I’ve started using Delicious to organize my online bookmarks. Along with the switch (from Google Bookmarks, which I also like), I have a feed of my most recent bookmarks displayed on the home page of my website. Check it out for max awesomeness and lots of web stuff.
While you’re at …

New Opt-e-Web website launch

Aug 29 2011 - Web/Tech

I’ve been enjoying my work with Opt-e-Web and we’ve finally launched our new website!
See the new http://opt-e-web.com
Opt-e-Web is a web design, SEO & marketing, and IT company based in Salem, Oregon. Our new design stresses all three aspects of the business and provides a clean and friendly online experience for our clients.
Let me know what …

Linux Apps I use

Jul 30 2011 - Web/Tech

I’ve been running a couple different flavors of Linux for the last four-plus years. I am currently on Arch Linux. I like to experiment with different programs that fit my current workflow, or can improve my workflow in some way. So here’s my current Arch Linux setup (all links below open in new tab):
Window Manger …

New Job

Apr 8 2011 - Personal, Web/Tech

I’ve taken a part-time job as the Design Director for Opt-e-web, a small Salem, OR design and tech agency.

Sans-serif

Mar 21 2011 - Web/Tech

Chris Coyier’s post at CSS-Tricks on the sans-serif CSS font stack got me thinking. When I see things like this, I usually think, “That’s a cool hack, but how will it work on the many different platforms?” Especially Linux, since I’m a Linux user.
For quick reference, here’s what he says:
font-family: sans-serif; /* don’t specify Helvetica …

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