I know some people that use Photoshop very often but still don’t want to think about using the pen tool for anything. Why? Because it does scary things, draw lines and curves I don’t want, etc…
To bad because the pen tool is in my opinion one of the most powerful tool in photoshop. I really discovered it when I learned how to delete the history vectors on curves. Read the rest of this entry »
Chris at CSS-Tricks has done many screen-cast in the past and he has just finished the Designing for Wordpress serie.
If you are about to start your own Wordpress theme from scratch don’t go further and have a look at those mini-series. You will learn how to design a professional theme from the beginning. Very easy and well explained.
An other gift to the comunity, thanks Chris.
A really nice video by Matthew Buchanan about his process of building a website. Very interesting to see the different styles gradually applied in the process.
I first considered using a TextMate macro to do the heavy lifting with regard to the CSS file, but my friend and colleague offered a much better solution: the contents of stylesheets are exposed in the DOM, so JavaScript could probably be used to apply the CSS rules in sequence, and the result recorded with screencasting software.
If you want to make your own video Matthew gives a script to do it on his blog:
I have done some little but needed update on the wordpress theme and the gallery css. I am still split in between Typo design and glossy style design and I’m kind of going for both at the moment.
What I can’t work out is the sidebar. No idea seem to be better than what I have now, and what I have now is rubbish..
Any link or idea for original sidebar design?
Wordpress 2.6 has been released today. No major changes but still few improvements and new functionalities along with some bug fix.
To be noted:
Here is the full list, good reading: http://wordpress.org/development/2008/07/wordpress-26-tyner/
The Wordpress Team is definitely very busy at the moment and that’s good for all of us, Wordpress user.
I have recently added an interesting website to the gallery. Dean Oakley’s portfolio is of course valid and is well coded but it also uses an horizontal navigation instead of the common vertical one. Read the rest of this entry »