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Free Grungy Textures for you!

11/03/09 :: Posted by Rob

Free Grungy Textures Sample

Time for my first free texture pack… (more…)

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I am starting on the wonderful road to becoming enlightened with jQuery. What I have decided to do is create a semi regular post, describing what I have learnt and explaining how to do things as I learn them. Hopefully this should help some of you guys if you want to start to learn.

Why jQuery? Well it’s like a light weight JavaScript. I have always wanted to learn a good strong design scripting language that would help me develop my web building skills. jQuery will give me the scripting experience to then go on and learn more languages like it. jQuery also has a familiar way of selecting objects to manipulate, using CSS ID’s and Class’ which is great for someone like me!

As they say, who ever “they” are, “Stay tuned folks” and in the next few days you should see the appearance of my first jQuery tutorial style blog post.

Tags: jQuery
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Good stuff from the Design community.

09/12/08 :: Posted by Rob

I just thought seems as though my peers across the design community are posting such wonderful information, I should show them some appreciation and throw some links out there! So here is a round-up of recent goings on from the design community… (more…)

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Wordpress 2.7 RC1 – Woohoo!

05/12/08 :: Posted by Rob

Im almost childishly excited about this release… Not because anything really changes up front, but because it all changes in the back end!

A really nice new overhaul of the admin section awaits us in Wordpress v2.7 which to be frank, makes me giggle like a school girl. I’m such a geek…

You can download the RC1 of Wordpress 2.7 here

Wordpress is by far the best Blogging/CMS that I have used, if you are thinking about getting into it, there are huge amounts of resources out there to help you learn, here are just two of my favourite places…

CSS Tricks

CSS Tricks has become my home recently; it’s such a good resource for designers and developers. In this post Chris, the author of CSS Tricks, goes into some detail about developing your freshly sliced PSD into a Wordpress theme! You will also find tonnes of useful stuff there, on many other Design/CSS related issues!

Theme development Screencasts

Wordpress Week

Web Designers Wall

There is also another great resource here with great tips and a few free, very well made, Wordpress templates.

Installing Wordpress Locally

Building Custom Wordpress Themes

Exporting and Importing Wordpress

These are just some of the many resources out there to help you get into Wordpress, and there is no better time! Everybody loves Wordpress!

Tags: admin, CSS Tricks, RC1, release, Web Designer Wall, Wordpress, Wordpress 2.7
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