Adding a YouTube feed to a WordPress template
The built in WordPress function fetch_rss() makes it easy to pull in an RSS feed from any other site and display it on your own blog. The function gives you convenient access to…
Using Adobe Illustrator for web design
The majority of web designers seem to use Photoshop, but Illustrator has some real strengths when it comes to designing web layouts. Moving and resizing elements on the canvas is much faster and more intuitive, and this helps make the…
CSS typography: setting a vertical rhythm
An increasing number of people are starting to think about vertical rhythm in their web typography, so I thought I’d share my CSS implementation, which uses ems (to allow for text resizing), a global line-height and…
Speaking to other SSH users
A not very useful tip:
To check who may be on your machine, open the Terminal and type ‘who’ (or to see who was on recently, type ‘last’).
To send everyone a message type:
echo ‘Stop sneaking around on my…
- 19 Dec 08
- filed under Code
Upgrading to WordPress 2.7
I’ve just upgraded this blog to WordPress v2.7 and I must say I continue to be impressed by the improvements that are being made. The admin area is now even more slick and user-friendly. In fact, it’s beginning to feel…
- 16 Dec 08
- filed under Software
A bit of a buzz
With a view to better sharing our web design skills, a few of us have knocked up a little site for our informal freelance network.
- 2 Sep 08
- filed under Miscellaneous
Don’t ask users what they want
It’s a common misconception when undertaking user research that we need to survey a bunch of users and find out what they would like in (a new version of) a website. I’ve had clients sometimes get skeptical about doing user…
A new job
Although my work with Jackfruit Design has been going really well, and I’ve been busy with some interesting web apps over the past 6 months, the solitary working lifestyle has recently become a bit isolating. So last month I…
- 31 Jul 08
- filed under Miscellaneous