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• 12.18.06 Psuedo-static Homepages in Wordpress posted in Web Design

  I use Wordpress for a lot of my smaller client sites. It actually makes a decent CMS with a little hacking. It defaults to a blog style home page, but it’s simple to create a static page, old school style. However, I’ve had several clients lately that love the idea of […]

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• 12.9.06 Unadulterated Praise for Firebug posted in Web Design

  I’ve long recommended the Firebug extension for Firefox as an essential web developer’s tool. Along with Xylescope, it’s been a major tool for debugging all aspects of my web pages. But 1.0 Beta is out now, still free despite some rumors to the contrary, and it’s rapidly taking it’s place at the […]

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• 12.8.06 Review: Expanse CMS 1.3 posted in Web Design

  I reviewed Expanse a while back and had a few critical things to say, but a lot of hope for the future. Nate Cavanaugh, a developer of Expanse read the review and took to heart a few of my concerns. Seriously. Version 1.3 made some of the changes that I and […]

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• 12.3.06 Making Wordpress More Client Friendly posted in Web Design

  Ah, it’s been a busy weekend. I’ve packaged up a zip file and SQL database export that I can use as a starter kit for client websites that I base on Wordpress. It’s the barebones setup with the plugins which I use every time, tweaked to all of the settings that I […]

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• 12.1.06 Review: Transcending CSS posted in Web Design

  I just picked up “Trancending CSS, the fine art of web design” by Andy Clarke and edited by Molly E. Holzschlag. It’s amazing. This is one of my favorite CSS books to come out since “The Zen of CSS Design“, which quite literally changed the way I look at CSS layout and […]

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• 11.29.06 Curvy Corners posted in Web Design

  Holy cow, my RSS reader is spilling gold today! I’ve discovered Curvy Corners, a new javascript library for automatically generating rounded corners on your (preferably div) elements. So what makes this different from all the other rounded corner libraries that I’ve worked with and left behind? Background image support. Check out […]

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• 11.29.06 kuler: Color palettes for the masses posted in Design, Web Design

  Adobe is offering a relatively new color tool for free, called kuler. It lets you put together color palettes using the usual color theory, with tools like RGB sliders for adjusting parts of each palette. If you have (or create) and Adobe I.D., you can save and publish your palettes. Each […]

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• 11.18.06 Dealing with Unreasonable Demands posted in Design, Web Design

  Thank the gods for contracts. I’ve started using (very expensive) contracts with all of my clients. Even the one’s I like ;-). I attach the detailed estimate (the one that they signed) to the signed contract and give them a copy. Indubitably, at the end of a job there come a […]

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• 11.10.06 A Wordpress Menu Solution posted in Web Design, Geekery

  I love using the wp_list_pages function to pull in the pages on a Wordpress site to create menus, but I sometimes get frustrated that I can’t assign individual CSS classes to each menu item. But I enjoy a challenge. Here’s my solution. http://pastie.textmate.org/22226 It’s basically a preg_replace in PHP that looks for all of the […]

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• 11.9.06 The new Circle Six Site posted in Website Updates

  Okay, it’s up. Presenting the new Circle Six Design homepage. It’s seriously lacking in the portfolio pieces that are essentially the entire backbone of the site, but they’re coming. I’m going to try to add 3-5 a day for the next couple of weeks and see what happens. I’ve detailed […]

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