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L.J. ver.1.5 - Tinkering with Wordpress
October 13, 2004 | 10 Comments
Ever since this site launched there have been elements of my Wordpress setup that I haven’t been happy with. The most notable being:
- Most pages had to scroll far too much to show the content, especially the home page.
- Every post required an excerpt, making quick posts difficult - not to mention the fear of filling the home page with non-design posts.
Yesterday I realised that I had been approaching these problems all wrong; over complication of simple goals had taken control. Today I fixed the problems.
Continue reading “L.J. ver.1.5 - Tinkering with Wordpress”Responsible Design - Form Styling
August 31, 2004 | 20 Comments
There have been many great articles about styling forms with CSS, so there’s no point in me discussing that any further. There is one aspect of form styling that sometimes gets lost in the rush — the ‘why’.
Continue reading “Responsible Design - Form Styling”Free Design Tools
August 16, 2004 | 11 Comments
Each of these four tools fit a specific task within web design - and fit it “to a T”. Including the ultimate colour sampler, a feature packed screen ruler, a favelet so useful it should be an entire application and the colour palette generator to end them all.
Continue reading “Free Design Tools”Programming Photoshop
August 8, 2004 | 11 Comments
Whether you’re building your first homepage or pushing pixels for a living, most of us can improve our Photoshop workflow. This article provides an introduction to customizing Photoshop to meet your needs, as well as providing some freebies and different techniques that may be of interest to designers and developers alike.
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