About
My full name is Christopher Scott Hernandez and this is my online journal. I’m 24 years old, and live in Austin, TX with my beautiful girlfriend Josie, a cat, and a dog. I’ve been in and around web design since I was sixteen. I created this site as a way for me to express my views on anything design related, rant a little about daily life, and share any tips and techniques I use in designing web sites.
If you’re interested in hiring me for any web design work please contact me , and include as much information as possible along with an accurate return email address.
If there is anything I forgot to mention here that you are interested in please let me know .
Site Info
This site was carefully hand-crafted using Notetab Light , Photoshop CS2 , and Textpattern 4.0.1 on a Compaq Presario Desktop “running Windows XP Home.
Hosting is generously provided by the good folks at FreeTXP.com .
This site is best viewed using Firefox at a resolution of at least 1024×768, although it should be fine in all other major browsers.
Colors & Fonts
The ‘Christopher Scott’ logo, and the home page subtitles (About Me, My Tags, Recent Blogs etc…) use the font Koblenz Light . Most of the icons used on the site are from the dingbat font Tropicana BV . All headers, titles, and other important text are Trebuchet MS . The main font used for most article content, and all other copy is Arial .
Textpattern Plug-Ins
| Name | Author | Version | Description | Active? |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| kgr_safe_excerpt | Kurt Raschke | 1.0 | Generates an excerpt based on the body text with tags removed, or the excerpt, if it exists. | Yes |
| tru_tags | Nathan Arthur | 1.8 | Tagging support | Yes |
| Beginning | See Help | 0.6 | Automatic Excerpt Generation | Yes |
| zem_link | zem | 0.4 | Create article plinks and absolute href links | Yes |
| zem_contact | Threshold State | 0.6 | Flexible email contact/feedback form | Yes |
| rsx_plugins_table | Ramanan Sivaranjan | 1.1 | Display a list of plugins currently installed. | Yes |
| ajw_if_comment_owner | Andrew Waer | 0.3.1 | Allows checking one or multiple comment field values to "verify" an indentity | Yes |
| ajw_comment_num | Andrew Waer | 0.2 | Allows for outputting current comment number | Yes |
| ajw_clean_feed | Andrew Waer | 0.2 | Extends Atom & RSS functionality to allow for /clean/feed/urls | Yes |
| ptv_if | Petur Valdimarsson | 0.3b | A general purpose conditional statement | Yes |
| czg_if_comment_cookies | Count Ziggurat | 0.1 | A couple conditional tags for whether the user has a comment cookie or not. | Yes |
| glx_gravatar | grauHirn.org | 2006.2 | Implementation of gravatar-images. | Yes |
| nhn_livecommentpreview | Nils Hörrmann | 0.3.1 | live comment preview | Yes |
Preferred Reading
As hard as it was, I’ve narrowed the list of blogs that I read regularly to five. Most are design related but some aren’t.
Natalie Jost
An excellent designer and blogger. She blogs about Textpattern and CSS quite a bit, with some very insightful thoughts on life in between.
Cameron Moll
One of the fathers of modern web design, and still one of the best. His ‘Premium Linkage’ is on my Google home page, and his blog is good stuff.
Hicks Design: Journal
Very original, and tons of cool stuff all the time. I’m sure Jon is on top of a lot of people’s lists of great design bloggers.
Verlee’s Blog
One of the nicest blog designs ever, and an excellent read to boot. Be sure to check out her art/illustration work.
One Good Move
My daily dose of liberal propaganda. With clips from the Daily Show, the Colbert Report, and some of the best daily political links anywhere on the web.
Thank You
First and foremost I have to thank my tireless supporter and the love of my life Josie. Without her love, help, and support none of this would be possible. Also, a big thank you to Ike over at Freetxp.com for giving me hosting, and submitting me to the Daily Slurp . Thank you Marcelo Terraza , and Pavel Jedlicka for the excellent photography.