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Cracked.com’s Guide to Fonts

Ryan — Sun, 08 Aug 2010 23:50:11 +0000

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 … [visit site to read more]

Dao By (new) Design — our shiny new look

Ryan — Tue, 27 Jul 2010 01:30:02 +0000

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 … [visit site to read more]

WordPress 3.0 “Thelonious” Released

Ryan — Thu, 17 Jun 2010 23:29:38 +0000

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:

Custom backgrounds & headers (no more custom fields and php wizardry needed)
Shortlinks (our tweets thank you)
Menus (I can’t tell you how exited I am to retire the rather massive PHP function I use to do this now)
Custom Post types and taxonomies (more and more like Drupal, this is a good thing)

… [visit site to read more]

SEOSimple Joomla 1.5 Plugin v1.4

Ryan — Mon, 17 Aug 2009 11:47:53 +0000

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 … [visit site to read more]

Awesome: SEO Rapper – Design Coding

Ryan — Fri, 29 May 2009 02:16:25 +0000

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 … [visit site to read more]

Electric Bike Denmark

Ryan — Wed, 04 Mar 2009 03:18:04 +0000

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 … [visit site to read more]

Advice when choosing a social media consultant

Ryan — Tue, 03 Feb 2009 00:35:18 +0000

I recently stumbled upon Stuart Bruce’s “Top ten ways not to choose a social media consultant“. Bruce offers some solid advice for anyone looking to hire a consultant, advisor, or otherwise “expert” in the social media field.

My favourites:

They describe themselves as an expert. This space is so new and changing so rapidly it’s impossible to be an expert, … [visit site to read more]

Funny taglines for Windows 7

Ryan — Wed, 15 Oct 2008 04:01:25 +0000

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:

Windows 7: We heard it’s a lucky number
Windows 7: Like Windows 6 — wait, there was no … [visit site to read more]

Customize Drupal’s Recent Comments block

Ryan — Tue, 14 Oct 2008 09:14:11 +0000

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 displayed.

A search of visit site to read more]

Hate Internet Explorer? Take a stand against IE6 browser

Ryan — Thu, 18 Sep 2008 08:54:35 +0000

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 … [visit site to read more]