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Congrats to the Yankees, who with Boston’s loss clinched their 9th consecutive AL East division title! World Series here we come!

posted on September 20th, 2006 in News, Sports| No Comments »

You might recall that just over 13 months ago, I posted this, announcing the official launch of my second personal site, Casabona.Org. I also wrote a somewhat lengthly ’schematic’ of the site for those who were interested to read. The original idea was to showcase and build my PHP/MySQL skills. For that reason, the design suffered a little. I also wanted Casabona.Org to be a catch all website for my personal and professional…stuff, for lack of a better word.

After realizing that keeping up Casabona.Org as a second blog, which is essentially what it was, was too much work and somewhat redundant, I decided to change the scope of that project. With the redesign of this site, it was a little easier to look at Casabona.Org now as a solely professional site. Cutting out all of the personal content on the site left me with 3 crucial elements: Resumé, Portfolio, Contact Info. A redesign was also in order.

For the redesign, I wanted the site to look professional, and like I put some sort of effort into the layout. I used a good amount of CSS with image gradients (such as the top of the background and the portfolio item backgrounds) and some other design bells and whistles, like the strips in the top right, and the footer image. I also wanted to do some shadowing to give some elements of the site a 3D effect and while I didn’t do the body of the site that way, I think where I did add a drop shadow (banner and portfolio thumbnails) makes the site ‘come alive’ a little more. All in all, I am very happy with the design, and how each element plays a part in the whole scheme of the site.

The focus of the redesign came with the Projects page. I needed a nice place on the site to display my entire design portfolio- websites, desktop publishing and multimedia. I created a database with 2 tables- one for websites and one for other projects. While both tables would be similar, I did this primarily for the back end and adding new projects. I then made the development and publish pages like film strips or slideshows, so my portfolio is easily navigatable. The end result was a dynamic, easy to update, easy to use portfolio and home for all of my projects.

After about 6 months of on and off work, and a great amount of time put into the site, I can say I am very happy with its outcome, and hope the users feel the same way. Later.

posted on July 5th, 2006 in Design, News, Portfolio, Websites| No Comments »

I am glad Senators know what the are talking about….

Recently, I read a news story in which Sen. Ted Stevens (R- Alaska) states why he voted against Net Neutrality. For those who don’t know what is going on, part of the senate is trying to make it so a few big companies control in the internet. The Net Neutrality (NN) bill would prevent that from happening.

Sen. Stevens gave his 2 cents on why he is against NN. Without going into too much detail of what he said, it is clear he has no idea what he is talking about.

I just the other day got, an Internet was sent by my staff at 10 o’clock in the morning on Friday and I just got it yesterday. Why?

Two things are horribly wrong with that statement. A- he cannot speak. That sentence is all kinds of wrong, grammatically. B- ‘an internet was sent by my staff’? Well you probably just got it because there is a lot of internet. It took a while to download. He also said, We use this internet to communicate and we aren’t using it for commercial purposes.. Um…has he ever been on the internet? O right, he was suppose to get it Friday, but got it yesterday. So I guess Amazon, Ebay, and every online store out there are not really deemed ‘commercial purposes’ by Sen. Stevens. E-Commerce is just a fake term anyway.

After that he starts to get technical, about how the internet is a series of tubes. Tubes that get clogged. With stuff. Like the internet. I have no idea what his last 3 statements mean.

Maybe there is a place for a commercial net but it’s not using what consumers use every day.

It’s not using the messaging service that is essential to small businesses, to our operation of families.

The whole concept is that we should not go into this until someone shows that there is something that has been done that really is a volition of net neutrality that hits you and me.

Huh?

The fact of the matter is maybe someone should O I don’t know….educate our senators as to how the internet works. And maybe send Sen. Stevens back to English class. Later

posted on July 3rd, 2006 in Manifesto, News, Politics| | show comments » « hide comments

Recently my brother had a skate ramp built in our back yard, and the company who did it, dXc Ramp Builders, did a great job on it. It’s sturdy, pretty big and put together well. My brother loves it. To check out pictures of it, you can go here.

To contact dXc Ramp Builders, you can call 845-692-9589 or check out the MySpace. Tell them Phil Casabona sent you. Later

posted on July 3rd, 2006 in Business, Links, News| No Comments »

An online company, Blue Hippo, trying to get the best of the not-so-tech-savvy. Of course, they didn’t take into account DiggNation.
To break it down a little for you, You put $99 down on the desktop. Then pay $39.99/week for 52 weeks. That is $2079.58 + the $99 down = $2178.58 for a computer. Must be good, huh? Here are some Dell computers with comparable/better features, none of them exceeding $600. Why? Because the computers they are offering are bottom of the barrel computers.

The laptop they are offering does not even have the minimum required amount of RAM to run the OS it comes with. They mask this little scam by telling the customers it does not matter what kind of credit you have….because clearly, no matter how bad yours is, their’s is probably worse.

So, stay away from Blue Hippo and make sure to tell your friends. Later!

posted on April 15th, 2006 in News| No Comments »