Category Archives: Web Design

WordPress 1.5 installed

Yup… it’s all installed. I’ve installed it, configured it, and decided I liked Kubrick (the default WordPress 1.5 theme) enough to just hack it into a site I like, not to mention how lazy I am… So here you have it. It’s not totally Kubrick, but it smells like Kubrick.

I’m loving the 1.5 action. I love how plugins just add themselves to the menu bar in the admin panel. I love the dashboard. I love Pages. I love the Presentation tab.

One cool thing I discovered about Kubrick is it has a few CSS classes for adding images to posts, namely .aligncenter, .alignleft and .alignright… I’ve been meaning to add these kinds of classes to Webfroot for a while, but then again, we don’t post nearly as many images as we could…

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Now at a new location!

glutnix.webfroot.co.nz is no longer! long live inner.geek.nz! I’ve switched over to WordPress from b2, so there should be tons less comment spam to deal with, and more time for posting!

I’ve got glutnix.webfroot.co.nz permenently redirecting to here. If you find any problems with the redirections, please let me know. Also, if you got any kind of feedback or comments or suggestions or whatever, please give it!

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Slacker Brett returns

Lo, I have returned! Now that I have an Alcatel 735 with MMS capabilities, I’ve opened a moblog. It’s still a work in progress, but I’m using a modified version of Simsi… when I get bBlog going I’ll use this script to help me write a moBlog bBlog plugin 🙂

I’m still enjoying my time at Dev-Zone. Christmas looks like it’s going to be fun. I’m going to Otaki for a few days, then heading up to the Bay for a day or two, then come back on the 28th Dec with Sheree. Keep an eye on the moblog 🙂 Oh, it has an RSS 2.0 feed too…

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Amazon.com and the (inevitable) book review

Working for a salary has its benefits. One of them, namely, is professional development. I recently bought Designing with Web Standards by Jeffrey Zeldman along with Eric Meyer on CSS by said Eric Meyer, all with money set aside by my company for professional development. YMMV.

I bought these books with the company credit card on Amazon on June 10th. Amazon gave me an estimate of delivery, due by June 27th at the latest. Yesterday I still hadn’t recieved the books. So I emailed Amazon and they agreed to re-send the books at no extra charge. (On a side note, this process was surprisingly human, but dripped with corporate stalety.). So what happens today? Said books arrive. I swiftly cancel the replacement books and all is well. I don’t blame Amazon, but I do blame the slow carrier I chose to use from Amazon’s choices.

So, I’ve read up to the third chapter of Zeldman’s most excellently written guide. It presents a brilliant case to business types for adopting the model he proposes: structural (X)HTML, CSS design and DOM and ECMAscript compatible behaviour. If you’re a web developer or designer, get with the program and read this book! Upskill for the web’s sake! Favorite quote from the book so far? A heading which says “How Do I Code Thee? Let Me Count The Ways.”

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Webfroot down

I’m working on the new Webfroot site. This’ll be the 3rd revision I’ve done since it’s first inception in mid 2001. Not dropping any hints on what will be new, but be rest assured, we will still provide the same level of news reporting you know and love.

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