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The following is The Cracked Guide to Fonts. Yes, that Cracked — the magazine we read as kids that was the Gobots to MAD’s Transformers. I’ve recently started following their site, and absolutely love its completely whacked cracked sense of humour.
It’s nice to see someone from the graphic design industry poking a bit of fun, as it’s well needed — as lets face it, there’s no shortage of designers who take themselves far far too seriously. From the…
I’m way (way) behind on announcing the new look and identity of Dao By Design, but cobblers’ kids and their shoes, eh?
So, welcome to the new look of Dao By Design. Slicker, more organized (or will be when we get everything in its place), more useful and generally just much much better.
Previously the site utilized Joomla for the main CMS and WordPress for the blog. With the CMS-focused improvements that WordPress development has brought over the last two…
And doesn’t it look fantastic.
WordPress 3.0 has some features that have been in high demand for some time, and that theme developers have had to muddle their way around when using WordPress as a project’s CMS. Namely:
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I need first apologize for the length of time between updates. I have no excuse other than an insane work schedule. I, initially at least, was also trying to hold off releasing a new version until I had some significant bugs to fix or features to add. Perhaps it’s a testament to the simpleness of the plugin, but bugs are few and far between.
That said, an encoding bug has been the bane of the plugin’s existence and desperately needed…
A friend of mine just forwarded me this video by The Poetic Prophet (AKA The SEO Rapper), and I enjoyed it so much that just had to break my DBD blogging silence to share it here.
The song lays out, with some slick verse, the importance of Web standards and proper design — both for how it relates to the look of the site, and the way the site gets indexed by search engines. Check it out and…
Site Description: Electric Bike Denmark specializes in advising on and selling e-bikes. All products are the result of several years of development, and bikes are exclusively composed of components from leading manufacturers.
Project Profile: Electric Bike Denmark approached us to create for them a clean and professional design, the ability to add, remove and update content easily via a user-friendly interface and the power to expand as the company grows. To deliver this we employed a completely custom template…
Just stumbled upon this list of humorus taglines for the newly “officially named” Windows 7 and thought I’d share. The list contains more than this, but I wittled it down to my top 20:
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One of the first posts I wrote on this blog was a tiny little script that detects whether your visitor is using a particular version (or less) of Internet Explorer and then redirects them to a page explaining that they should get their ass in gear and get a better browser.
Well, my loathing of Internet Explorer has not lessened, but I have begun employing a much easier way of notifying my visitors about their poor choice of browsers.…
Customize Drupal’s Recent Comments block
I’ve been using Drupal quite a lot recently, and one of the things that was bothering me was the Recent Comments block. It’s excellent that Drupal includes this functionality right out of the box, but that it offers no way to template or otherwise customize it (in Drupal 5.x at least) is a pain in the ass.
Specifically I want to display the comment’s author (as a link) and be able to customize the number of recent comments that are…
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