It is becoming more and more apparent that we need to design our own theme, from near-scratch, rather than blatantly ripping off someone else’s.
Expect more wierdness as I mess around with the site.
Ok, I used Firebug to quickly reskin the Wordpress default.
Now I’m tinkering with Javascript, to provide dynamic fancy title styleing and shadows behind posts.
Javascript skullduggery is done. I wrote a script to make nice titles and another one to add shadows under posts.
Here are a few of the shirts we have designed. I don’t have all of them so I’ll bug Jake later to get the rest of them.
I may have just got Pixelmator, but I already created something that would have taken ages in Photoshop. I was able to do this with several Pixelmator features that either don’t work as well or don’t exist in Photoshop. In fact, Pixelmator can use any Core Image filter or generator, giving it incredible versitality. I’d like to share three nifty little filters.
My starting image:
Pixelmator, a beautiful layer-based photo editor for the Mac, just got rulers and guides. I, for one, couldn’t believe they released the thing without guides, but they’re there now, and that inspired me to try Pixelmator again. One thing led to another and in about twenty minutes, I had this. It isn’t polished, but I have things to do… Maybe I should make it the backround, how about that?
I’ve just acquired ScribeFire and Firefox 3 beta 5. ScribeFire is a Firefox addon that allows you to blog from any browser window, and I anticipate that it will improve this site considerably, as the Wordpress interface and Wordpress in general disgusts me, and is buggy.
Anyway, ScribeFire has a nice user interface that integrates well with Firefox. It has drag-n-drop image support, flickr and YouTube imbed buttons, and tabbed editing. Installation was a snap. Simply download the plugin, and it will walk you through a setup assistant upon Firefox’s relaunch. After you give it your blog’s URL, ScribeFire automatically detects its type (ie, Wordpress) and the API location. Enter your username and password, and you’re good to go!
ScribeFire has numerouse features and good integration with Firefox, and I plan to update this post with their details!
So I’ve been going through my backups and the data on my laptop, and it doesn’t look like much of the last site remains. I have a few of the .png files for the last design, but no .psd or .ai design documents. I’ve grabbed a theme for the intern, and it was time for a redesign anyway.As the site frankly sucks right now, please feel free to leave… But we’ll be back sooner than you think.
