Woodgrain: A Free Social Media Icon Set
After releasing the super-cool chrome icon set, I am happy to release a new set of 19 wooden social media icons for your enjoyment. With 18 social networks represented alongside astandard RSS icon in PNG format, this is a beautiful collection that can be used for a wide variety of purposes.
10 Greatest WordPress Themes Ever
I love WordPress. That’s why I put together my list of the 10 greatest WordPress themes ever. I tried to avoid having too many “frameworks” and obviously excluded my own themes, Gallery, DesignFolio+, and Absynthe, which could possibly have made the list (in my dreams). Please enjoy and as always, add your own suggestions and omissions in the comments.
A Little Old School, A Little New
If you visited my blog 6 months ago, you would have seen a theme similar to the one you see today. I transitioned away from this theme to work on a new Lifestream-style theme that I planned (and still plan) to release on ThemeForest. Now that the development for that theme is complete, I have redesigned this site, though, a lot of what you see you would have seen 6 months ago. The new theme is called “Scratched Up” for obvious reasons. I plan on making subtle updates over the coming weeks to make everything really gel. I hope you enjoy and if you don’t, please tell me why in the comments as I like to know these things. Word.
DesignFolio+, The Ultimate WordPress Portfolio Theme
DesignFolio Plus is a beautiful and highly customizable portfolio theme great for displaying logos, websites, print work and much more.
Gallery 1.2 Released
IMPORTANT: Upgrading from earlier versions of Gallery requires removal of /gallery/ theme folder due to removal of page templates in prior versions of Gallery.
IMPORTANT: Gallery 1.2 only works with Thematic 0.9.5. Make sure to download and upgrade to Thematic 0.9.5 first.
It’s been a while since I’ve released any updates for Gallery and I’m sure some of you have been wondering what’s going on. In the past month, I’ve been working with Ian Stewart and Chris Gossman, lead developers for Thematic, to help improve both the amazing Thematic framework and the awesome Gallery theme at the same time. After sending the theme off to Chris, he made some changes to Thematic that allowed us to remove ALL PAGE TEMPLATES from Gallery, thereby isolating all the functionality in the functions.php. I really appreciate Chris and Ian for being so flexible and open to changing things up with Thematic for child theme developers and can’t express my full gratitude for their help with this release. That being said, there are a number of changes and enhancements in Gallery 1.2.
The Fallacy of Page Zooming
A response to Cameron Moll's blog post, "Coding like it's 1999." Drew McLellan rebuts the idea of reverting back to using pixels to size text in your CSS. Definitely a good read.WordPress News and Tutorials All in One Place
Darren Hoyt has released a sweet WordPress news aggregator called WP Topics. It contains general news, coding help, tutorials, themes, design advice, WordPress entrepreneurs and more. Very good resource for anyone in the WP community.Photoshop Tip: Snap Shapes to Pixels
If you ever get really angry with Photoshop when you make a shape that is not pixel-perfect, then this is for YOU. I can't believe it took me so long to figure this out, but hey, better late than never!Design Police | Bring bad design to justice.
Now you can pass judgment upon those who commit design sin. This 'Visual Enforcement Kit' allows you to stick it to those who create, approve, encourage or condone bad design.Introducing Typekit
A new solution for web font embedding has emerged with much fanfare and enthusiasm from designers, developers, font foundries, and type designers alike. I'm not sure this is the silver bullet solution to cure all our font embedding woes, but it certainly shows how desperate we are for a simple solution.
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chriswallace: RT @markjardine App #3 design is coming along quite nicely (I think).- chriswallace: OK, time to pick up my wife's bday present. :)
- chriswallace: Looks like my points on WordPress themes and GPL were spot on: http://tr.im/qEHx
