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Archive for October, 2005

2005 Archives

Oct 28

The One True Layout

The One True Layout - I’m noting this so I can come back and check it out in full and hopefully leave my notes in this space. Here is a quick summary for those Web-types who are interested:

“This article shows how to achieve [total layout flexibility, equal hight, non-faux columns and vertical placement of elements across grids/columns], and then how to combine them, creating what could be called the One True Layout™”

Posted in CSS, Design & UI

Oct 25

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Redesign / Realign

Cameron Moll provides a great breakdown of the Web design community, and its reasons for site redesigns in Good Designers Redesign, Great Designers Realign. Not only does he break down the reasons behind the realigners and the redesigners (”The desire to redesign is aesthetic-driven, while the desire to realign is purpose-driven.”), he provides solid examples of realignment success. It is good to see Cameron, and A List Apart, some of the leading voices in the Web community, speaking out against redesign for redesign’s sake. It is yet another shining demonstration of the growing maturity of our profession.

Posted in Design & UI

Oct 24

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Quicksilver: how do you use it?

Quicksilver: how do you use it? - Veerle’s blog

Posted in OS X, Quick Links

Oct 23

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Favatars, WordPress and Me

A while back, I posted about implementing Favatars on this site. While I ran into many small issues, I was relatively happy with the feature. Since my upgrade to WP 1.5, I have wanted to re-implement the functionality without hacking WordPress. Luckily, Joen, with the help of Jeff Minard took the work I did (which was based on the work of Paul James) and turned the idea into a plugin which is now running on this site. The plugin was extremely simple to install and implement within my templates and is a great example of the maturity of WordPress and it community of users and developers.

Posted in Featured, WordPress

Oct 22

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Return of the Photo Gallery

As I mentioned earlier today, I’ve wanted to (re)install a photo gallery on this site in order to post the loads of bits and bytes spewed forth by my digital camera. Plogger seems a perfect match, and having followed these simple directions posted by David Peralty , I have integrated Plogger and WordPress.

I’ll be adding many more photos as time allows.

Posted in Featured, General, WordPress

Oct 22

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Photos, Posts and the Integration Thereof

It’s about time to re-introduce a photo gallery system on this site, so I have spent a bit of time reviewing my options and have decided to give Plogger a whirl. While I have been excited about the release of Gallery 2, I have this sneaking feeling that it would be overkill.

And frankly, I’m just not in the mood to spend my day configuring and tweaking Gallery. Supposedly it is vastly improved, but I’m ready for simplicity. I’m ready for “it just works”. From what I have read, Plogger should be an ideal match: simple yet solid. I’ll let y’all know how it goes.

Posted in Featured, General, Web Development

Oct 20

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