Archives for February, 2009

Wordpress Automatic Theme Upgrade Deletes Custom Files

Posted by Scott on Saturday, February 28, 2009 at 10:46 am. 0 Comments.

When I made Dojo, one of the main features of the theme is the ability to add a custom.css file in the same directory, and ...

Filed under automatic, deleted, dojo, frustrating, upgrades, wordpress.

Dojo and Wordpress 2.7

Posted by Scott on Wednesday, February 25, 2009 at 9:49 am. 0 Comments.

I've had a few inquiries about whether Dojo works under Wordpress 2.7, and the answer is yes! You can drop it in, and it'll work ...

Filed under dojo, themes, updates, wordpress.

Why Aren’t You Using Fireworks to Compress Images?

Posted by Scott on Thursday, February 19, 2009 at 2:44 pm. 1 Comment.

I'm sure you've all heard the Fireworks vs. Photoshop debate. When I started at Pop Art, I was a Photoshop user. It was the application ...

Filed under compression, creative, design, filesize, fireworks, images, photoshop, software.

Recent Links

The Panic Status Board
Absolutely beautiful: "The idea quickly grew beyond 'Project Status', and has become a hub of all sorts of internal Panic information. What you’re actually looking at is an internal-only webpage that updates frequently using AJAX"
Gmail and Google Apps icons for Fluid
Some very nice high-resolution icons for various Google sites and apps for use in Fluid.
37 Signals high resolution icons for Fluid
37 Signals was nice enough to provide a set of high-resolution icons for each of their products for use in Fluid.
Fluid - Turn your favorite websites into mac desktop applications
"Fluid lets you create a Site Specific Browser (SSB) out of any website or web application, effectively turning your favorite web apps into desktop apps."
XScreenSaver
A collection of free screensavers for linux and mac computers, including the best Matrix-code screensaver made.
Fliqlo
Free flip-clock style screensaver for Mac and Windows.
HTML 5 Reference: A web developer's guide to HTML 5
"This document illustrates how to write HTML 5 documents, focussing on simplicity and practical applications for beginners while also providing in depth information for more advanced web developers."
12 common problems with HTML 5
The headline is somewhat misleading this is more of a FAQ about HTML 5 and has some great information.
HTML 5 structure—HTML 4 and XHTML 1 to HTML 5
Beautiful introduction to converting an HTML or XHTML page into HTML 5, and the new elements that are available to you.
The League of Moveable Type: A collection of open-source fonts
"We're done with the tired old fontstacks of yesteryear. Enough with the limitations of the web, we won't have it. It's time to raise our standards. Here, you'll find only the most well-made, free & open-source, @font-face ready fonts."

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