Here’s my next ‘Inspiration’ post…Denver Seminary. This site is classy. That’s really all I have to say. I’ve seen several sites that are similar in their classy look…but for some reason this one is my favorite so far. The colors, the layout, everything. They even left the design layout in 1024×768 optimized. That’s cool.

Denver Seminary

I’ve decided to follow up with something (finally) that I have wanted to do for a long time. Ever since there’s been the CSS explosion and so many sites launching as a showcase for CSS/Design, I’ve wanted to do something similar. I started this post about a year ago and it’s been left catching dust in the ‘Your Drafts’ section. Now, I am going to do it…

From time to time I am going to post a new image of a design I like. As time goes on I may get into accessibility and other things, but for now I am going to focus on css designs that really catch my eye. I may also say a few words, but by no means will it be a review. I may eventually turn this into a new section on the site, but you’ve seen how the others have turned out…so I’ll leave them as posts for now with the title ‘Inspiration - [site name]‘.

Principles of Freedom

The colors and overall layout is simple and effective. I like this one a lot even though

I don’t write about many of these things, like when Simplebits (Dan) had their logo ripped off, or when The City Church got it’s design stolen. But this time I haven’t seen anyone write about it.

I was perusing a couple sites that had information on being a professional blogger or just ways to make money at home and off the internet. Come on, who doesn’t want their own home based business and the opportunity to work for themself!!!

Anyway, this is what I came across:

Hey! Who’s that handsome man in that profile?

And then here’s the thief:


And it’s ironic, don’t you think? Why Do Work when you can copy someone else’s stuff? Hmmmm…

Not completely. Just adding a few ‘pink’ things to my site for the month of October to help support National Breast Cancer Awareness Month and Pink For October.

It’s a little early, but I am not sure I would make the 1st. If you want to know more about this…click one of the links above or you can read more about it at Patrick Haney’s website too.

I am not going to turn this into a one vs the other or even a review of those that are most popular out there. I know there are tons, some full and rich with features and others that are super light and to the point (just editing text). But, when I am not at work using Visual Studio for my development, I am usually at home writing PHP, HTML/XHTML, CSS, JavaScript, etc…by hand.

With that, you usually want to find a nice editor that has the features you want and makes things as simple as possible to complete your task. Here’s a list of some very nice Text Editors for the PC:

Notepad++ (my editor of choice at the moment)
Intype
Crimson Editor
HTML Kit
Aptana
Notepad2
E Text Editor (they say will rival TextMate for the Mac, but I can’t justify paying for one when there are soooo many good ones out there that are FREE)
UltraEdit (again, why pay?)

The main reason I even started this article was because I was getting tired of the simple white backgrounds. Yeah, you can go in and change colors through some of the options, but it’s just not right. You can’t ever get the color scheme correct. So, I did a quick search for a nice theme for one of these editors…and since I already use Notepad++ as my primary Text Editor for my PC at home…I downloaded and installed Port of Ruby Blue theme. And let me tell you, this is one nice theme and it’s very easy on the eyes!!! I highly recommend this theme if you don’t want to spend endless hours trying to get your own theme complete.

Here are a couple I’ve used for the Mac:
Coda
TextMate
Bluefish

These two are kind of different in they are the WYSIWYG editor:
Amaya
Nvu (pronounced N-view)

And this is a nice little Suite of Products with both free Text Editor and WYSIWYG Editor: Trellian, Trellian WebPage, Trellian CodePad. They have a ton of other cool products too…go check them out!