Archive for March, 2010

WYSIWYG is trouble, but I’ve come to like TinyMCE the most out of anything. Pods has had one hand tied behind its back due to a the_editor() bug plaguing multiple instances of TinyMCE on the same page, but this quick Input Helper should help get us by until they’re officially supported in core.

Why You Cant Work at Work BigThink interview with @jasonfried – garrys subposterous. I guarantee that if you work in a building with more than one person, this is your life. Have you ever had the luxury of working from home for a day? It’s mind blowing how much work you get done. At my [...]

I’m becoming increasingly comfortable with the idea that at least some form of style guide, whether on a team or individually, is an extremely important part of the process. It helps with everything from readability to quality control and especially helps a team become that much more cohesive.

I love information. I especially love information as it’s generated from data. I’m a sucker for infographics, and even a pretty bar graph is awesome to me. Other designers should love information too, especially when it’s targeted specifically at the work we’ve done. Perhaps my most favorite niche of information is eye tracking. One of [...]

Spencer Fry — Attracting Normals. Spencery Fry gets it. I think it’s all too easy for us [techies] to forget what this is all about. Too soon are we to adopt the latest and craziest Thing just to have it fall flat on our face when we present it to the client. I know not [...]

I would have to consider myself a fairly recent convert to Fireworks when the rest of the crowd is considered. I really jumped on the bandwagon when CS4 came out, specifically because of the type engine changes that took place. All that is well and good, but it’s no secret that Fireworks is plagued with [...]

QuirksBlog: CSS vendor prefixes considered harmful. See also: Not Supported by Jonathan Snook. It’s issues like these that have me concerned about whether or not we’re ready for CSS3. Sure, writing a few extra styles isn’t really that big of a deal, right? Yes and no. We’re coming into an age that is accepting a [...]

Why I don’t like Tumblr & Posterous → Leon Paternoster. I can both sympathize and agree with Leon’s thoughts here, specifically regarding the trend of Web designers moving to Tumblr/Posterous. Don’t get me wrong: Tumblr and Posterous are awesome, but it seems as though the signal to noise ratio is going all sorts out of [...]

Input Helpers in Pods CMS for WordPress allow you to work with and manipulate the data available to your clients on a per-input-field basis. In this walkthrough we’ll discuss limiting the WordPress Pages available in a Pick column as a method of applying a custom background image to the selected pages.

So Dribbble just tossed me an invite. Are you Dribbble’n yet? If you’ve been wanting to find out what it’s all about I’d like to make a quick offer. To enter for an invite simply follow @jchristopher on Twitter and shoot me a note saying you want in. Again, randomness will decide your fate. Entries [...]