Archive for the ‘Web Design’ Category
Learning to Learn: how to improve yourself
I have a massive appetite for learning. I am always reading books and blogs to try to better understand the things I want to do. Design, programming, marketing, copy-writing, I constantly strive to improve.
On the web your skill set needs to evolve constantly. Things change at a massive pace. New technologies are constantly being introduced and to compete you have to learn.
The best way to do this ...Binary Moon WordPress design vIII
As I briefly mentioned on Monday, I have finally redesigned Binary Moon.
I actually started redesigning about 2 years ago. Initially it was going to be an update rather than a totally new look, and I even built most of it, but I just wasn't entirely happy.
Then last year I started building what would become my soon to be released framework, Elemental, and the logical progression from that was to use it as the base for the site you see ...
WordPress 2.7 Complete, competition results
At the start of last week I ran a small competition to give away the book WordPress 2.7 Complete that I had reviewed. I had a few entries and, as promised, I have posted below all of the entries. Read on to see what people said, and to find out who has won.
EntriesTravis Vocino - I should get the WP 2.7 book because being just slightly ...Binary Moon version III – now live!
This is a very quick post, purely to say that the new Binary Moon design is now live (so click on through if you're in a feed reader).
I will do a proper write up next week, pointing out some of the many new features and different things I have done. There's been a lot of time and effort spent on the theme, most of which is in Elemental - the new theme soon to be released by Darren ...
WordPress 2.7 Complete Book Review and Give Away
I haven't read any WordPress books before, and have always wondered what they would contain so I was instantly intrigued when I was contacted by someone from Packt publishing asking if I wanted to review a new WordPress book.
WordPress 2.7 Complete is squarely targeted at the new WordPress user. The chapters actually cover quite a broad range of topics, including everything from the initial ...
TimThumb Beta Test
A couple of weeks ago I posted a brief history of TimThumb, the image resizing script I am responsible for. I said in the conclusion that I was looking for beta testers, and I am, however I have been a bit slack at sending out the script to the people who ask.
So, I thought I would upload it for everyone to download so that we can give it to a ...
Fussing over the (web design) details
Having spent the last couple of months (on and off) messing around with the new Binary Moon design I am now at the stage where I want to say it's finished and move on to something else.
There's a well known 'rule' called the Pareto Principle that states that "the last 80% of a job takes 20% of the time" (or something similar ) and below are some tips I have been using to try and reduce the length ...
A Brief History of TimThumb
When we were building Mimbo Pro - Darren came up with the idea of automating the image thumbnail resizing.
This was all part of making the theme site as easy as possible to maintain. Initially it was based loosely on phpThumb stripping out all the fluff and making it nice and streamlined.
Development was started by Tim ...
