A few days back, I stumbled onto a blog called Digging Into WordPress, by Chris Coyier of CSS Tricks and Jeff Starr from Perishable Press.
I was on the hunt for information about linking to Google-hosted JavaScript libraries from WordPress blogs and was pleased to find a very thoughtful and informative tutorial that dealt with just that subject. I didn’t have time just then to explore the site further, but I tucked it away in a bookmarks folder to read another day.
This morning I finally had time to explore some new blogs, so I opened my find time to read bookmarks folder and pulled out Chris and Jeff’s site. From the posts I’ve read so far, I’d say these guys are pumping out some great stuff. The content is a nice mix of technical coding tutorials looking at subjects like WordPress tags and custom fields. In addition, they have released at least two free WordPress themes.
Digging Into WordPress is the companion blog to a book that Jeff and Chris are writing under the same name. If the book lives up to the blog, then these guys are on track to put out a useful WordPress reference.
Here are some of the posts I enjoyed and think that other WordPress enthusiasts will find informative:
- Create a Stunning Lightbox-Style Random-Post Header Gallery
- Free Theme: WP Typo
- Edit Your Database Options from the WordPress Admin
- WordPress Configuration Tricks
- Use Google-Hosted JavaScript Libraries (…still the Right Way)
In particular, check out their WP Typo theme. It’s sleek, very clean, and easy on the eyes.
I have to admit I feel a real affinity to this blog. These guys have been around for about as long as we have and cover similar content, albeit leaning more heavily towards coding WordPress in PHP.
I tip my hat to Jeff and Chris and look forward to learning much from their future posts.
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10.16.09
… I also find myself torn between the coffee shop and my dual monitor setup
11.04.09
May I suggest ABR Viewer as an alternative to loading and trying each brush in Photoshop? It’s free, and I use it regularly. You may find this a great time-saving alternative!
http://abrviewer.sourceforge.net/
Hope it helps!
11.04.09
Thanks for the referral, Cyndi! I’ll have to spend some time tonight trying it out.
02.11.10
I love you to pieces man!!
10.14.10
I wished and wished for a Mac, then was given one at work.
So I moved all my files over.
I HATE it. I’m a designer. I have about 50 folders for 50 different projects. I name the banner psd “banner.psd” for all of them. Try and search for them all, yeah the Mac finds them but then you have to do “get info” for each one (or change some such setting and still click on each to see where the dang thing is located. On windows. I glanced at the path to the folder and voila. Yeah changing permissions on Vista is a headache but it’s far better than the constant problems I have on the Mac. Photoshop is twitchy at best, the thing crashes, although my Roku, PS3, Wii, personal laptop all do fine with my wirless, the mac drops it all the time. I use multiple monitors. Oh my god what idiot thought of leaving the application menu on one screen when the application is on another? You can only choose one little sprout because Steve Jobs knows better than you how you should work.
can’t wait to ditch it.
sorry tirade over.
ps tons of free windows applications out there.
11.26.10
Um… how about not naming all of your files the same name? Sounds more like an organizational issue than an operating system issue, either way.
I might recommend using an identifier and THEN _banner.psd? I assume it’d be difficult to find photos as well if every picture on a drive had its own folder and was named “photo.jpg”.
Examples:
Projectname_size_banner.psd
Clientname_size_banner.psd
etc…
04.17.11
Ok, so… I’m a total newbie to photoshop. I have CS5 and a brickton of brushes. I have tried renaming them, but they do NOT show up in the list like I want them to. I’ve played around with it for like a half hour. Can anyone please help?