Paddy Donnelly at Smashing Magazine: the death of the (boring) blog post?
Paddy Donnelly has a brilliant post at Smashing Magazine – a sort of Scott McCloud-like1 tour de force about how layouts look. So I think Donnelly’s The Death of The Boring Blog Post? is as close to a “must-read” as is possible. For my direct purposes – I started blogging to write about disaster preparedness [...]
David Lambert’s new “Insert Callout” plugin
David Lambert, as far as I can figure is one serious software and systems designer, recently wrote Callouts: I need a WordPress plugin on his blog Component Oriented. Then he went out and wrote the plugin. It’s called “Insert Callout,” and the preceding link is to its page on the WordPress Plugin Repository. Here’s Lambert [...]
Smiley Cat Web Design – pull-quotes gallery
Christian Watson, of Smiley Cat Web Design, which has a subsidiary, Elements of Design (“an alternative web desig showcase”). Check out this beautiful gallery of pull-quotes – some of which I think I’d characterize as “call-outs,” which, in my mental taxonomy, are properly a subset of pull-quotes. Here’s one that I liked a lot, [singlepic [...]
Font Burner WordPress plugin: Powerful, easy to use – and dangerous
The Font Burner Control Panel plugin seems to be the creation of one Adrian Hanft, a/k/a Adrian3, but more properly, Adrian E. Hanft, III (from “About” page). This terrific plugin lets you: Change heading fonts in WordPress (h1 through h4); choose from over one thousand (1,000) and growing non-commercial fonts; requires no code writing Plus [...]
When a map will help your post make sense
Sometimes a map will help your post make sense; on other occasions, it’s just an opportunity to add a beautiful image to a post. A great source for unusual and beautiful maps is Mappery.I just used a map of Manhattan in this post, NYC – free crosstown bus plan may reflect understanding of transportation system [...]
Using dummy text as testing tool
Alyssa Gregory, the autueur1 of Small Business Idea Generator blog.has a post 7 Dummy Text Generators: Which Is Your Favorite? on Sitepoint. Five I’ve known and used; two were new. As I’ve been tinkering with the design of my primary blog – Popular Logistics – I’ve started to identify the problems (let’s hope I’ve done [...]
HTML-Ipsum – preformatted dummy copy
HTML Ipsum Presents – is a website, as described by Smashing Magazine, “A useful little website created by Chris Coyier. It provides you with the standard Latin text already in HTML tags. Clicking on any of the blocks automatically copies the text to your clipboard!” Here’s one sample copied and pasted, in one click, from [...]
Three Plugins that work together real well
Cicero on the virtue of Handstands Insofar as we know, Cicero 1 never expressed an opinion about handstands. We’re using color to signal dummy copy within this post. The original image was 1024 pixels wide. Now, having adjusted the “medium” size for an uploaded image at 250 pixels, we can insert an image, select “medium” size [...]
Rubiqube: Eight-Part series on web design
Adrian Diaconescu, the force behind Rubiqube, has published the first in an eight-part series about designing clean websites that still make a big impact, by using simple layout, beautiful typography and striking photography. The first is Common Sense Tips for Creating Web Design Layouts, and it’s so rich in information and resources that you might [...]
Mighty Mo: Simple WordPress pull-quote plugin
Easy install, easy configuration, works as promised- and if you’ve never used custom fields – this is an easy, non-scary way to find out. From the wonderful people at MightyMo comes the Simple Pull Quote WordPress Plugin (link to MightyMo’s Page – download link here). If you’re using WordPress 2.8.2, you can even install it [...]
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