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Worthless Stuff

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A long time ago in a web design job far far away, I created a website that was just going to be for my personal musing. I basically needed a place to post the things that I find interesting and unique. You know those stories that you just have to send a list of friends via email with your anecdote attached to it.

Right, one of those sites. So I created such a site, and called it Worthless Stuff. I didn't get any more basic than that, it was just worthless stuff that wouldn't enhance your life any. I guess it kinda went really well with my Cynical Tees site. Hmm, maybe that makes me a cynic?

So I begin the journey of resurrecting a site that I started many times and never really got completed. It started as a wordpress blog and then I decided that I wanted to do more with it than wordpress would allow me too. Then I recreated it with Django, but then got pulled off on to other projects and never got back to it. So here I am, once again, looking at how to make it better and actually get others to read it as well.

What I'm going to do is keep it like it is, however I'm going to style it in typical blog fashion but give it a much needed update. Throw in a little SEO and see what happens. Like everything else I do, I'll update the progress here, which will allow you to ask questions as we move along.

One of the major projects that I hope to accomplish here, is to come up with my own CSS Framework. I've used CSS Blueprint, Blue Tip CSS, 960 Grid and boilerplate in the past, all of which have some great techniques, but none of them are my own. So I'm headed out to create something that I think will be just as good as those, but more tailored to my own style and workflow.

Once I've got the style that I want, then I'll post it as a CSS theme. The way I look at it, there are certain styles that go with certain types of content. There is a blog style, there is brochure style and then there is portfolio style. Each of them have something different to offer depending on your audience. For the Worthless Stuff site, we are going to create a framework for blog style, which I hope will be useful for future projects.

As always if you have any questions, please don't hesitate to ask.

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