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.
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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
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
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
My book is featured in the Canadian User Experience Blog
Dec. 1, 2008
One of the people responsible for my company switching to Microsoft Expression as our main web publishing platform is Qixing Zheng – a UX (User Experience) Advisor for Microsoft Canada. Qixing and her colleague Paul Laberge have been instrumental in … Continue reading
My XBOX Avatar Looks Just Like Me!
Nov. 20, 2008
When the world of web design gets too complicated I tend to gravitate toward the living room and my much neglected XBOX 360. I was a huge gamer when I was younger – in fact StarCraft nearly ruined my university … Continue reading