St. Petersburg Web Design Blog

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We’ve just created an mobile theme for this blog.  We hope you enjoy it.  We like it because it’s “responsive”  which means it automatically adjusts for any size screen.  It even has some server side programming to resize images!  It can be used as a full screen desktop theme as well but we like the full sized theme we have.

We’ve combined our new mobile theme, which we are tentatively calling Flxi, with a a “sniffer” script which detects the device being used.  If it’s a tablet or phone then it gives them the same content but with the Flxi theme. It also includes a link in the footer to bypass this script and view the mobile version.  Once in the mobile version, the link in the footer will switch you back to the desktop version.  We did this because our main theme looks great and is highly readable in all but the smallest of devices.

Here’s a link to bypass the preview it.  Remember, it will look different depending on the size of the device.  For instance if you are on a desktop PC or a laptop it will have three columns.  If it’s a much smaller device, then it will only have one column so please try it on a couple devices…

Mobile theme

Writing about the Coleman data leak is going to be tough to do without sounding like a paranoid extreme left winger or an extreme right winger. Let me assure I’ve alway been disappointed with both parties and I am a confirmed independent.

With that out of the way, lets get on with the paranoia:

The Main stream media is definitely reporting untruths about this story. They are saying that the data leak was the result of a hacker and that federal crime has been committed. This is entirely untrue. the only person that’s even saying this is Colemans attorney, well I’m sure some extreme supporters are saying this too.

What really happened.
The developers running colemans site asking for donations to his legal fund screwed up the site. It left the website down for an extended period of time.
While investigating Adria Richards stumbled across the websites database completley unsecured. she did this with a web browser and nothing else. This is not hacking. This is “surfing the internet”.

links:

http://www.politico.com/news/stories/0309/19912.html

http://www.google.com/search?q=Adria+Richards&ie=utf-8&oe=utf-8&aq=t&rls=org.mozilla:en-US:official&client=firefox-a

http://butyoureagirl.com/2009/01/28/did-norm-coleman-fake-his-own-website-death/

http://washingtonindependent.com/33674/norm-colemans-donor-database-exposed-campaign-claims-political-motives