Wow! Long time no post! I’ve been busy with the holidays and school, including this site for the DC Diamonds girls hockey team.
So here are some tasty links to tide you over for a while!
Making Art a Career at the New York Times-I think most artists have figured this out already, but it’s still an interesting article.
Yong Fook’s Dirty Little Web Design Secrets. This guy is a work-flow ninja.
I’m loving Paperback, a House Industries font! So beautiful!
Hopefully I’ll be back here soon, otherwise you can always find me at Kindrapolis!
Head on over to Kindrapolis to view my post about the Dutch government’s official font.
Adding a favicon to your blog or website creates a more polished look and feel while extending your brand to the browser chrome. It’s also really easy to do. Below I’ll take you through the steps of creating your favicon and adding it to your WordPress Blog.
First, create a 16×16px image in your favorite image editing program
Next, save your image for web and change the extension to .ico
Upload your image to your server.
Open WordPress and go to your dashboard.
Click on the Design Tab and then open the Theme Editor.
Click on the Header link on the left hand side
Right before your head tag insert this code:
<link rel="shortcut icon" href="favicon.ico" />
making sure that the path leading to your favicon is correct.
Update your settings and you are all set!
Bonus: You can use these instructions to create a favicon for every website, not just WordPress blogs, just ignore the WP portions and insert the code right before the tag on your regular index page.
So, I was playing around with my other blog today, trying to remove the focus outline that Firefox applies to focused links. Adding a {outline:none;} worked on everything except my headers. I tried drilling down the cascade, (example: h3 a:focus {outline: none;}), but it didn’t work. Frustrated, I turned to google. Lo and behold, the answer was quick, easy and awesome. Simply use the wildcard selector!
*:focus {
outline:0;
}
Obamabats
Jeff Domke’s offering free, high quality Obama dingbats! What a great way to celebrate! Thanks Jeff!
via swissmiss
Who designed Obama’s website and logo?
The answer can be found here.
Want more Obama goodness?
Head on over to my personal blog, Kindrapolis, to join in the celebration!
Right now I’m teaching myself PHP. It is my first hardcore programming language, and it is going fairly slowly (I don’t think I have an object oriented mind!).
I’ve been using the documentation over at the official PHP site, and my eventual plan is to be able to use CakePHP as a framework for application development.
In the meantime, I’ve been using Chris Coyier’s “A Nice & Simple Contact Form” for my current PHP form needs.
Also, Script & Style linked to this post over at A Comment which seems like it has a lot of very useful links for learning PHP. I can’t wait to get started!
