Believe it or not, I tried Opera (ya know, the browser) for the very first time, last week. I must say I was very impressed by the functions it has that Firefox (our favorite browser) doesn’t.

Let’s compare them:

Firefox

• Clean and slick interface
• Extensions and themes management
• Live Bookmarks
• Import settings from other browsers
• Free and open-source

Opera

• Weird interface (at the top of the window, especially with the ads…)
• Themes management
• RSS reader
• Import settings from other browsers
• Can edit (but not add new) cookies
• Better management of downloads (transfers)
• Not free

Do you have something to add? Or to change?

My portfolio has now its own subdomain! And its own style!

I needed a professional portfolio to show my work and the simple /portfolio/ page was not what I wanted. Now, there’s a place where I can share my projects and show my CSS skills (skillz, like some say).

Check it out!

http://designedby.exomel.com

Matt, talking about a beta release of WordPress another CMS of his own on January 9 2004 in a weblog entry by Dave Shea:

I’m hoping for a public release in the beginning of February. I haven’t decided exactly how it will be licensed yet, but for commercial use there will likely be a charge, simply because if there was something like this out there now I would not at all mind paying a few hundred dollars to save thousands in development costs and chop a month or so off the timeline.

I’m glad he made the right choice. But it’s amazing that WordPress is still free. Think about it, the most complete, functionnal, and semantic CMS out there, is free!

Update: As Matt said in the comments, he was not talking about WP, but about another CMS that was never released. Sorry.

Don’t ask me why, I always thought that FeedBurner was not free. Now I know it is, I tried it. Now, only 1 (one) single XML feed for the weblog. The old feeds should still be working as I’m using a simple and smart method by Douglas Bowman, but I suggest you to update the URI because those feeds may not be supported in the future.

The new feed’s URI is: http://feeds.feedburner.com/exomel.

Have fun!

I’m curious, I want to know what you know in french. So, what can you say in french? …Nothing? Com’on!

P.S. - Do not care about the “Only english french comments” notice above the comment form.

Have you ever tried Apple’s Finalcut Express? The software itself is quite amazing. But when it comes to undoing (Edit -> Undo), that’s where the trouble begins.

The CMD + Z shortcut is not associated to Undo!!! It is not!!!

Instead, the shortcut for Undo is CMD + W… And guess what, CMD + Z is for closing the active window. Now I’m asking:

Why the hell are those shortcut associated to their normal command? Z for undoing, and W for closing active window!

But apart from that, this is an excellent software.

The exotic melon is now accepting Globally Recognized Avatars (gravatars). So if you want to help me killing two birds with one stone, please post a comment telling why you like gravatars, and thus I’ll see if the system is correctly implemented.

Oh, and if you don’t already have a gravatar, then sign up now!

When browsing my old archives on my hard drive, I found some old 88x31 banners I had made for websites I liked. Banners were placed on my old, old 2001 website. You want to see? I mean, the banners, not the website. Those were my first experiments with Photoshop 5.5 and 6. I know it will bring back memories to Joël and Jeton.

That’s all. I mean, that’s enough. There’s some hope kids!

I’m proud of it. It’s the new exomel design for the 2005 summer! The header photograph is from Nathan Ford and all the rest is by me. Valid XHTML and CSS. And you’re still able to switch to the old themes.

I have to thank the Multimedia Crew for the feedback they gave me on this design :) And I’m still open for any feedback, good or not — and bug reports…

And by the way, if you don’t see the new style, I invite you to click on the red button in the side bar. Thank you.

Enjoy!

Update: Design featured on CSSVault.com!

Other update: After realizing that the default style you were seeing when you came here for the first time was still “Lick”. I changed it to “Summer”. Sorry for everyone who didn’t see the latest style :)

My friend Marc-Antoine is a kind of CSS newbie. I converted him to the CSS religion some months ago. He just realized that most of the time, if something works in Firefox (or any Gecko-based browser) it doesn’t in IE, and vice-versa.

One of the hardest thing in CSS design is to make your design working with every browser…

That’s what I told him. What do you think?

P.S. - Oh by the way, I didn’t want to make a new weblog post for that, but we voted (73%) for the end of the strike this morning.

P.S. (2) - Watch for a redesign soon. Er, when I’ll have the time start something.

P.S. (3) - I like P.S.’s ;-)