The Twitter Design Community; words can not describe what greatness these guys bring to my day. Working as a freelancer, from home, I would say the only thing I miss is the office chatter. The funny things people say, the great stuff they help you out with and mostly that social side of life that can easily be lost in freelance work.
Twitter is my office chatter. Maybe I tweet too much, maybe I use it incorrectly – I dunno… Without it my motivation would have taken a large hit. (more…)
Tags: community, design, twitter
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That’s it I have had enough, IE 6 needs to die. People need to be educated! It does not take much to download a browser; you can even get them off magazine cover disks! IE 6, I’m calling time on you! (more…)
Tags: blocker, browsers, die, firefox, IE6, not supported, scripts
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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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Dumball 08!
20/05/08 :: Posted by Rob
So a friend of mine approched me about some stickers for his new car… This new car will be driven from Brussles to Corfu starting next Friday. But why not get a plane? Because this is the Dumball Rally ‘08!
The Garrison are sending off their beloved officers, and Ric, across Europe in the name of Charity and adventure, in a car that if reaches 88mph will send them back to the future… or maybe it would fall apart before it reaches 88mph… especially with 3 of them in the car.
So ok the car isnt exactly new, but you know, its got a flux capacitor… they have not been to the future yet to collect Mr Fusion or the ability to fly, I think this is fair play…
Good luck to them! And my the vinyl supplied propel them to their goal, of actually finishing… in one piece… and the same car…
GO FOR IT GUYS!
Find out how they are going HERE
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