What’s New?

What’s new in my world of designing and coding? Nothing much, but working on a few new things from site layouts to logos. I’ve also just released a new template that I custom designed for the new blog over at AlterCube. This template is made for WordPress and exactly matches their current site design too. I thought instead of using a pre-made template, I would just make the blog blend in with the rest of the site.

I recently set up a new blog for them by using WordPress, which replaces the old Php news system I custom coded for them a couple of years ago. The old system is not dead yet, it will still be used for the older archives and some back end things of the site.

So that’s it for me as far as the designing updates goes… I’m still working on a new desktop for this month and a few other things like icons, cards, and templates for wordpress too. Maybe I might just release one of the templates I’m designing as a download, If I did it would be under the Creative commons licenses .

55 Reasons to Design in XHTML-CSS

In no particular order 55 reasons for me to do “tableless” websites using valid XHTML for markup, CSS for layout and Flash sparingly, only as an ingredient. By tableless I mean avoiding tables (or a tagsoup of unnecessary divs substituting table trs and tds) for layout purposes and aiming towards as semantic markup as possible…

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34 Places to Get Design Inspiration – Online and Off

We’ve compiled a list, online and off to serve up everything from logos to icons to art to fashion to just inventive ideas to get your mind ticking. Kick back and let your senses run wild as we bring you 15 websites packed full of inspiration, 10 must-have books and 9 things to do to get inspired. Another goodie from FreelanceSwitch.

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