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Moleskin Icons for OS X

jez — Sat, 14 Mar 2009 11:02:06 +0000

“You are free to Share â€” to copy, distribute and transmit the icons under the following conditions:

Attribution. You must attribute the work to Max Brown / www.orangeyear.com
Noncommercial. You may not use this work for commercial purposes.
No Derivative Works. You may not alter, transform, or build upon this work.”

Other Icons, for Windows – so sort of Moleskin Windows Icons at deviantart

Max can be contacted at max@orangeyear.com

Overview of different Typefaces and Fonts

jez — Sat, 14 Mar 2009 10:55:42 +0000

Table and Preview of Typefaces

via lifehacker

Survs.com Invites 2009

jez — Sat, 28 Feb 2009 12:24:33 +0000

Click Image for larger preview
survs.com offers free, uncomplicated, yet powerful surveys using the latest ajax technology (e.g. saving forms every few seconds, making a “save” button obsolete).
Their service is currently still in beta and entirely advertisement free.
I have used survs.com before for a university assignment and received not only great responses (simple, elegant interface, no fuzz), but also amazing stats that could be exported to excel via .xls files.

I have ten invites, so leave a comment and I will send you one!

The darkest is before dawn (I am not dead)

jez — Sun, 07 Sep 2008 19:34:34 +0000

Dear everyone,
sorry for the lack of updates and little activity. As you might have read I moved to London two weeks ago.
As I am working full-time now (not in design) I have had little opportunity to sort out the updated version of h4x3d.com and the new concept.
Be assured, I have things noted down and sketches are almost final, however I do not like to release “alpha” as you know from my themesy.
I am a Leo and think in black or white – either change at once or not at all.

To tease you, here an excerpt of the top left header of the new blog.

I have also had a logo made by a professional logo and brand developer (on basis of a four pages creative brief). You might wonder why I did not do it myself: time for once is a reason, but also it is just as a matter of fact that sometimes you are blind when it comes to your own “design”.

Looking forward to receiving your feedback – changed should be up and implemented within three weeks from now-on.

Javascript to "fix" IE5,6 and 7

jez — Mon, 19 May 2008 09:57:24 +0000

Major find – check out http://code.google.com/p/ie7-js/
- basically it fixes many odd bugs that are annoying you as a visitor and developer of websites.
E.g. the transparent png issue..

from the page:
IE7 is a JavaScript library to make Microsoft Internet Explorer behave like a standards-compliant browser. It fixes many HTML and CSS issues and makes transparent PNG work correctly under IE5 and IE6.

Upgrade MSIE5-7 with advanced CSS features missing from MSIE7.

You do not need to include IE7.js if you are using IE8.js

What I have been up-to

jez — Mon, 07 Apr 2008 11:24:19 +0000

Some months ago I mentioned that I were busy being General Manager of a twelve-man Student-Company as part of my International Business and Management Studies in Venlo, the Netherlands. Time is progressing, semester 3 finished with excellent grades, semester 4 is almost done now, too. The company had have great success (business deals with RyanAir, nomination best regional company of the year, passed break-even, 15%++ dividend for every single (100) shareholder, best website, numerous local news-paper articles, etc.). Yesterday I took some time to update the motive catalogue for our product. The thing we sell is a foldable, 100% recycleable cardboard chair onto which we spray (airbrush) shapes using a water-based lotion. Our shape catalogue spanned some 90+ pages and was quite boring actually. Most people wanted to have either their company logo (e.g. Airport Weeze: The ultimate low-cost chair from the ultimate low-cost airport), friend’s faces or some general shapes.
On Wednesday we will enter the best student company region limburg brabant (belgium/netherlands), and this is what I was able to come up with while still writing my 30 pages term paper for another subject:

Some items include deviantart and misc. AI/vector files. Credit given where appropriate.
Oh also, I just noticed I don’t run Lightbox anymore on my site. How odd. I better get one sorted out next week or so, http://planetozh.com/projects/lightbox-clones/ has written a great comparison chart that should be considered. I wonder how my site plays along with WordPress 2.5, updated moo.tools (running old version at the moment) and then ultimately lightbox.

Note to myself: transfer images over to own server soon, company is liquidated on 31st May!

WordPress Plugin Developers get little credit

jez — Sun, 06 Apr 2008 10:52:27 +0000

Scott Reilly of coffee2code set out to try a 14 days of Plugins Challenge. In the past he has released various (great) wordpress plugins for free which he now tries to update to WordPress 2.5. as part of the set goal to come up with 14 wordpress plugins in the next 14 days.

WordPress Plugin Designers such as Scott Reilly or Lester Chan get less media coverage than theme designers for the reason (I assume) that their work is not that visible. Their work is amazing and really improves WordPress by a lot.

As a WordPress Theme Designer I think it is time to say thanks and return some favours, show some karma and link-love. Keep it up Plugin People!

Lester “Gamerz” Chan’s WordPress Plugins
Scott Reilly’s WordPress Plugins

The ones I love from Lester Chan are: Postviews (does not work here though due to complex loops), Post ratings, Print (allows you to print, right?).

The ones I love from Scott Reilly are: Author images (allows you to show an picture of you below a post or in your template – well you could hard and hand code this, but still this is a neat plugin!), Auto-Hyperlink URLs (autolinks links, as the name suggests), custom comment listing (will incorporate this once again soon, because the current comment section annoys me), Top recent commenters (similar to the one mentioned before) and wpuntexturize (changes annoying curly quote marks (quotation marks) into simple lovely ones). Lorrele’s article on “how to use the post-listings plugin” might be a good place to look at when you have trouble with Scott Reilly’s plugin

WordPress posts in two columns (design / code)

jez — Mon, 03 Mar 2008 17:06:08 +0000

Personal note: Post here

Time spent designing a theme

jez — Mon, 15 Oct 2007 08:50:07 +0000

Click the image to view the full-version

Source: i-marco.nl
Found: weebee.ro

Client WordPress in 10h

jez — Thu, 09 Aug 2007 16:55:23 +0000

I have some customizations to do, but also I have some client work pending. Since this is paid I need to finish it before photoshopping Palm Trees in your Rainbow Feather theme and so on. See below screen caps if you are curious how an ugly looking 1995′s Frontpage Website can be transformed and spiced up to WordPress 2.2.2

What did I do today? – I worked for Tarcus, a small Public Relations company located nearby my hometown. Their old site needs a hard revamp, check it out at www.tarcus.com if you care (it is not that pretty and not well coded at all. I reckon it was some intern using frontpage. Compared to the first version, which I did, the current one is more like a ‘step back’ than a ‘step forward’. That is why I am doing the next version again instead of some guy without a clue).

Some screen caps of their old site (and current until my work gets transfered over):

plain logo

old navigation (images,yiks- Google hates you)

Padding and margin might have sounded like Sitcome characters to the old website creator…

NEW layout by me (yes, I used parts of the ‘Water’ theme by the undersigned. It’s licensed under GPL, so no need to re-invent the wheel)

Spiced up header

Accessibility: increase/decrease font-size and a live search with suggest feature

Curly corners, not as lame as the original logo

Some dictionary like typeface for the frontpage and random images for the left sidebar

Royal free images from sxc.hu and some gradient to render a nice footer

Once all my work is done and the client accepted my work I will be releasing an open-source version of this. I am sure one or two of you will find it handy.