John Pezzetti's Blog

I just purchased this Betamax of Return of the Jedi. Browsing through a used bookstore, this diamond in the rough caught my eye and I couldn’t resist.  I’ll miss the $.50, but I think it will be well worth it in the end. “With old favorites like Chewbacca, Yoda, R2-D2, C-3PO and Lando Calrissian, plus [...]

I Just finished a new business card design for myself.  The fourth john pezzetti card I’ve designed, and my favorite thus far. As someone who spends all day rearranging lines of code and graphical elements for clients, it’s hard to find the energy to do so for myself.  At the same time, the work I [...]

As of a couple of weeks ago I am a proud kayak owner.  I wasn’t exactly in the market for a kayak, I’ve kayaked a couple of times and enjoyed it, but never thought much more about it than that.  I do, however, live a couple of blocks from the beach…and I don’t surf…so when [...]

I spotted this Pet Boarding sign in Oceanside and I couldn’t resist.  On a side note, this is the first thing I’ve ever made with Gimp…and man is it awkward to use software that is both so familiar and so foreign at the same time.

I just worked on a Drupal website for over three hours on a problem that doesn’t exist. If you’re using Zen Theme for Drupal 6 or 7 and your page is loading incorrectly in Internet Explorer IE6, IE7 or IE8 (namely, your page is loading without css), consider that Internet Explorer can load a maximum [...]

I am a Drupal developer almost full-time now, and on my development server I have two subdirectories in the public_html folder:  /drupal5 and /drupal6. Try as I might, I have never been able to get the combination of $base_url in the settings.php file and the RewriteBase directive in the .htaccess file to correctly display sites [...]

Found in a Thai restaurant in Oceanside.  Hard to see in this photograph, but looks like they had to fix “Seated” because it was originally “Seeted”.

Here’s a roundup of a few more sites I’ve built.  The first is a pretty complex drupal install for the Violence Research Foundation.  The layout is designed upon the beautiful A3 Atlantis theme by Blamcast.  I’ve wanted to use this theme as a base for a long time now, and I’m glad I finally got [...]

Elle Mckenna Beron, age .0082.  What a cute little kid!  Polite too–didn’t throw up on me at all despite being given every possible opportunity.

Check out the Quantum Communications website. The process to arrive where we did was a fun one.  Terry wanted a design in which the user is immediately offered pretty much every service we offer–SEO, re-branding, brand positioning as a bunch of big ass buttons… looking to green your brand?  BAM!  This was pretty much the [...]