Monthly Archives: December 2008

Get Microsoft Expression Products 50% off for the Holidays!

Just before the Holidays this dropped into my inbox. It’s a great deal made even better by the fact that the Microsoft Expression line is already competitively priced. Add to that the great review Expression Web 2 got form PCMag.com and you have the perfect last-minute or belated gift for yourself or the web designer [...]

WordCamp Whistler Pitch: Moving Beyond the Blog – Building Web Sites with WordPress as the CMS

WordCamp is coming to the wonderful winter wonderland of Whistler on January 24th, 2009 and I’d like to throw my name in the hat of presenters and share some of what I’ve learned working with everyone’s favourite blogging platform WordPress as a full fledged CMS. Now I’m not part of what is considered the Vancouver [...]

Design is Philosophy featured at Webdesigner Depot

A big thanks to the people at Webdesigner Depot for featuring Design is Philosophy in their list of 100 Websites With Outstanding Artistic Design. The props are much appreciated.Take a trip over to the site and check out the other great and unusual designs featured.
The one site missing on the list by the way is [...]

Using Conditional Custom Fields for Advanced Layouts

An often overlooked function in the WordPress arsenal is Custom Fields. Overlooked because to most it makes no sense: What do you use a custom field for? And how do you use it? The answers to these questions differ depending on how the WordPress theme has been set up: Custom fields can be used for [...]

Internet Explorer Alert – Critical Product Vulnerability

This just dumped into my inbox. Since so many people use Internet Explorer 6 or 7 and it talks about a very bad security issue I thought it important enough to warrant a repost (for the full details visit http://www.microsoft.com/technet/security/bulletin/MS08-078.mspx.
Basically the bulletin says that if you have automatic updates turned on, your computer will be [...]