Ten months ago, I stood on the steps of the Old State Capitol in Springfield, Ill., and began an unlikely journey to change America.

I did not run for the presidency to fulfill some long-held ambition or because I believed it was somehow owed to me. I chose to run in this election — at this moment — because of what Dr. King called “the fierce urgency of now.” Because we are at a defining moment in our history. Our nation is at war. Our planet is in peril. Our health care system is broken, our economy is out of balance, our education system fails too many of our children, and our retirement system is in tatters. Read More...

Tags: code, design

This is just a simple test of the emergency blogging system. This is only a test. This test should show off how text flows, the line height, the font and color choices as well as fancy things like blockquotes and images. We also want to test the basics like links and smileys in a blog post. A couple things to pay attention to are the blog header, tags and comments and how each of those are being handled. Sometimes it makes sense to block out each entry but usually just allowing the font and color to do the work is the best way to go. Simple is good.

So, this begins another paragraph of copy for testing. This should also be the last sentence before we see some sort of "read more" link to read the rest of this entry as this is just the summary. Read More...

Tags: design, themes, css