Sandbox and Promised Land for Movable Type

10 Sep 2008 – 8:47
By adam | Also posted in blogging | Comments (7)

The guys at Six Apart have released Sandbox for Movable Type.  They’ve included the winning themes from the Sandbox Designs Competition.  The first step is to install Sandbox as a plugin.  After that, you’ll be able to install Promised Land as a one click install1 .  You can also manually install any Sandbox Child Theme, [...]

A List Apart | The Survey 2008: I Took It

29 Jul 2008 – 7:20
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New Competencies for Theme Designers

31 Mar 2008 – 1:26
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WordPress 2.5′s new image uploader solves the longstanding bug of using deprecated XHTML attributes to float images (align=”left”, etc.), rather than it being done in CSS. This is handled by applying classes to the image when it’s inserted into the post, rather than via inline CSS. This is good, in terms of semantics, clean markup, [...]

Graded.

29 Mar 2008 – 9:22
By adam | Also posted in blogging | Comments (2)

I wouldn’t say up-graded, but WordPress 2.5 is definitely different. I feel the need to punish myself thusly, since wordpress is now my day job, besides my ‘hobby’ of supporting the themes I’ve developed. I’ve been playing with the SVN upgrades for a month or so now, making sure my themes work. While I was [...]

In Defence of my Absence

30 Jan 2008 – 9:30
By adam | Also posted in chicago | Comments (26)

I haven’t been exactly forthcoming with posts this month. I haven’t been lazy, though. Most of the free time I would normally devote to posting has been spent working on our office’s new site. I think the results are well worth the effort, but click the screenshot to see for yourself: My design was the [...]