Katelyn M. Thompson’s Blog

Do you ever feel the need to “Like” things, but they aren’t on Facebook. Now, you can! Kid Forever is offering a “Like” and “Disklike” stamp.

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10 years ago I was a sophomore in high school. I don’t have a good idea of what I was doing or exactly how I was told, but I remember sitting in D block Spanish and having someone come on over the speakers and make an announcement about what was happening. We didn’t have TVs in any of the classrooms, but there was a TV in the band/chorus room and I remember throughout the day that my friends who were in band telling us about what they had seen on the TVs. I came home and was glued to the TV watching the news coverage. I couldn’t really comprehend the things that were going on. I had never been to the World Trade Centers, I didn’t know anyone working or living in NYC, but I still knew that this was a big deal.

Last year I had the opportunity to go to the Pentagon Memorial and it was different from any other Memorial I visited in D.C. – I had witnessed the events. I was not alive during the Vietnam War or the Korean War. But on 9/11/01 my life changed, as it did everyone else’s. It was moving to be faced with the reality of the events. I went to the World Trade Center site which to me looked like a large construction site. Having no comparison of what the area had been like before, it was difficult to fathom the difference and the impact off the attacks on the lives of those in NYC on that day. But seeing the Memorial, seeing the parts of the building that was damaged and the number of people who had died at the Pentagon that day to me was very meaningful.

Today I will remember how lucky I am and will think of those directly impacted by the events on 9/11. I hope that I have a chance to return to the World Trade Center site to visit the Memorial and better understand the impact and see how we are rebuilding.

To those of you reading this, the blog is probably about to take on a slightly more web-design focus over the next few months while I’m taking a class in web design. I’ll be on the lookout for cool things that can be done with code, but will try not to focus on the code and just present cool things that can be done.

With that out of the way, I present to you a new way to design tabs on the Interwebs, the File Folder Tabs.

CSS Tricks provides a step-by-step explanation of how this works and then provides the code for you to implement it. Also, check out the demo.

I will be starting my 2nd course in the Graphic Design Certificate program at SMFA next week; the class is Web Design. I’m really looking forward to the class!

I came across an article which talks about a new project at Adobe, code-named Muse. It is essentially Illustrator but for websites. It allows you to manipulate objects, draw boxes, etc. At first, I imagined something similar to the “Design” view in Dreamweaver. But, it appears that the program has the ability to provide animation and interactivity, which is becoming somewhat expected in the world of the web these days.

I think I’ll be downloading the Beta tonight and trying it out.

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Oh my gosh, I love this business card by Boris Smus! I might just have to borrow this concept.

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I recently acquired a reason to buy baby things, so when I came across this toy I just couldn’t resist! I used to love bath time and I know I would have enjoyed this toy from Active People!

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I love to pop bubble wrap! My father, hates it. This is awesome.

Thank you AltaVista (essentially Yahoo) for suggesting that my search for “door” also lead me to search for Hugh Laurie.

ZOMG! New words were recently added to the Oxford Dictionary!

Now I have to start referring to “Livestrong bracelets” as “awareness bracelets“? Although I am glad to see that infographic is now a real word. If only Chrome’s auto-correct knew that! And now I can officially dis someone by telling them that I’ll unfollow them. Speaking of which, I wonder if unfriend is a word? (It is.)

Anyway, head over to Oxford Dictionaries to see the full list for yourself. The list is not NSFW. It’s a dictionary after all! Be careful how you use the words, though. As my brother told me: “Just because a word is in the dictionary doesn’t mean it’s proper English.”

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This is so true: