Newsprint: A Contrib Theme?
For some reason, I've been wanting a challenge lately. Particularly, I've been wanting to create a web design for a site that was seriously heavy on content, like a newspaper, but with a very specific style. Unfortunately, none of our current client's sites are that particularly heavy on content and none of them come close to fitting into the style I wanted to explore.
Born is the beginning of what might become a contributed theme. Maybe. Considering how much work building this is going to be, and considering "these tough economic times" it's really hard for me to completely abolish the idea of putting this bad boy up on theme forest...
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Newsprint: A Contrib Theme?
For some reason, I've been wanting a challenge lately. Particularly, I've been wanting to create a web design for a site that was seriously heavy on content, like a newspaper, but with a very specific style. Unfortunately, none of our current client's sites are that particularly heavy on content and none of them come close to fitting into the style I wanted to explore.
Born is the beginning of what might become a contributed theme. Maybe. Considering how much work building this is going to be, and considering "these tough economic times" it's really hard for me to completely abolish the idea of putting this bad boy up on theme forest...
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On the Disappointing Redesign of Drupal.com
There was a little rumble on the Tubes Friday about the redesign of Drupal.com. Mostly I just saw a few folks doing the sycophant dance and expressing how awesome and beautiful the redesign is. These people must have a much different definition of "awesome" than I do. Or perhaps by "awesome" they do not necessarily mean "successful". The redesign is physically attractive, but "awesome" to me includes not only visual stimulation, but also success in creatively solving some problem or meeting some goal.
Drupal.com had a very good problem to solve: 30,000 unique visitors per month, most of whom were mistakenly typing "drupal.com" into...
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On Building a Personal Website
Creating a personal website is probably one of the most obvious, and necessary, things a Web Designer, or Developer, can do early in their career. It also happens to be hard.
Obviously, the technical, and physical means of creating a website are simple, even natural, to someone who does this sort of thing all day, every day for a paycheck. So, it is no hardship in that respect. The difficulty comes in finding the time. In finding the inspiration. In summoning the inherent narcissism that lies dormant within all of us; harnessing its powers to create a singular, totally self-indulgent work of art. Not to mention the stage-...
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