Design Is Philosophy
Tuturials, thoughts, ideas and information about web design and digital media by Morten Rand-Hendriksen, designer, developer, digital media expert, information philosopher, speaker and author of the Sams Teach Yourself Microsoft Expression Web in 24 Hours series (version 2, 3 and 4), Lynda.com's WordPress 3.0 Essential Training course and Microsoft Expression Web 4 LiveLessons and creative director of Pink & Yellow Media - a Vancouver based digital media company.
Monthly Archives: December 2008
Get Microsoft Expression Products 50% off for the Holidays!
Dec. 23, 2008
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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 … Continue reading
WordCamp Whistler Pitch: Moving Beyond the Blog – Building Web Sites with WordPress as the CMS
Dec. 19, 2008
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 … Continue reading
Design is Philosophy featured at Webdesigner Depot
Dec. 19, 2008
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 … Continue reading
Using Conditional Custom Fields for Advanced Layouts
Dec. 19, 2008
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 … Continue reading
Internet Explorer Alert – Critical Product Vulnerability
Dec. 17, 2008
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. … Continue reading
Typograph for WordPress 2.7 Coltrane released
Dec. 11, 2008
With the release of WordPress 2.7 Coltrane came the introduction of a new template tag called post_class(). Interestingly I have been using a custom template tag by that exact name for a long time in my themes including the free … Continue reading
WordPress 2.7 up and running
Dec. 11, 2008
I just updated this site to WordPress 2.7, aka “Coltrane”. Turns out there are some rather interesting template tag changes that have caused some weird problems with my theme. I did a quick cleanup to get things sorted out but … Continue reading
On the understanding of the word “blog”
Dec. 8, 2008
According to Dictionary.com, the word “blog” is defined as “an online diary; a personal chronological log of thoughts published on a Web page;” This is but one of several definitions but they all contain the same basic elements; words like … Continue reading
Best of 604 Nominations
Dec. 4, 2008
Design is Philosophy has been nominated in three categories for the Best of 604 Awards. I don’t know who nominated the blog but it is much appreciated to be placed in such esteemed company. This blog has been nominated in … Continue reading
WordPress 2.7 to be released Dec. 4th
Dec. 2, 2008
UPDATE v.2: Turns out I jumped the gun a bit on this one: As Matt states in the comments below, it was the update to WordPress.com that was scheduled for December 4th. The WordPress.org update is still some days away. … Continue reading