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On WordPress as a career skill
WordPress is quickly becoming an essential skill for people in a wide variety of industries. Therefore, it’s imperative that educational institutions prepare graduates to manage, maintain, develop and design WordPress powered sites, blogs and apps. Soon we’ll see WP listed as a requirement on as many job listings as MS-Office, and students should confidently be…
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Thoughts on WordCamp San Francisco 2013
Have to say this was my best WC yet. First the bad: I left my phone on the beach the first day. Thankfully someone found it and called my hotel, but I spent the whole evening trekking it across SF getting it back. I wanted soo bad to take SouthWestern up on a delay for…
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Posts to facebook and twitter
I’m researching plugins that will auto-post to FB and Twitter accounts. Most plugins force you to create facebook “apps” to do the FB thing, a process that I despise. This one is called “social”, and it apparently doesn’t require an app. I’ll report my findings at the next Buffalo WordPress Users meetup tomorrow evening. If…
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Need to design a tutorial framework
There is a huge need for something that would make it easy to design tutorials. As I see it, a tutorial is a step by step document leading the viewer toward completion of a goal, whether it be the design of a graphic, a game, some code, or any process realting to graphic and web…
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Making hand drawn fonts with a tablet, Adobe Illustrator and Glyphs Mini
Watch a video explaining my process for making hand drawn fonts with Adobe Illustrator CS6, Glyphs Mini and my bamboo tablet: The finished product: You can download the font here: https://github.com/field2/quickworms
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Designing Dashicons
The dashicons font created for the mp6 plugin has pretty much taken up all of my time the last few weeks. This even with help from Mel Choyce, Joen Asmussen and the rest of the WP design team. There are quite a few resources on how to do this, but most of the ones I’ve…
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Icon fonts
So I’m trying to see if it’s possible to use a font for icons on a site, as has been attempted by the likes of fontawesome and probably many others. Prognosis to date: it doesn’t look good. I drew a 16×16 pixel box in Illustrator CS6. Copy/pasted it into the lower-case “a” glyph in Fontlab…
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Codekit icons
Looks like some of my ideas got implemented in the latest version of codekit. Not as crisp and clear as the ones I did though:
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Retina is a subjective term
I’m nearsighted and when I take my glasses off I can see pixels on a “retina” display clear as day.
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SVG icon demo
Here’s two versions of the WordPress home icon that you see in the dashboard. Click here for demo
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Coda 2 review
Just bought Coda 2. First impression: Apple store download took a while. Then I entered into some kind of OSX Lion spaces environment–weird, but maybe it’s because I don’t install stuff from the app store very often. I opened it, and was prompted to jion the mailing list, which I did. The second checkbox, allowing…