Former Rocky Mountain News ASE Steve Foster is hard at work helping his coworkers start web sites. Using some WordPress themes, Foster, a designer for most of his career, is helping with: Cartoonist Drew Litton's site Inside the Rockies blog and his own blog, America's Fish. He admits he'...

The WordPress Design Award is divided into 5 separate categories: 1. Best Clean & Minimalist 2. Best Retro & Vintage 3. Best Grunge 4. Best Hand-Drawing Style 5. Best Modern & Elegant That being said, we are giving away $200 COLD HARD CASH (via PayPal) to the winner of each category. ...

If you read this blog regularly, you will know that I am picky. Given the plethora of websites, resources, search engines and ‘time-saving’ tools out there, why not be?  Since I have been politely asked by the folks at AltSearchEngines to give a list of favoured search engines, I am happy to do...

I attended Drupalcon last week, which is a bi-annual Drupal conference for developers, themers and business development types like myself.  I had a great time, so here are some quick thoughts on the conference. (1) Drupal people are really nice.   Conversations came easily and people ...

If you use WordPress for your blog, or you read a WordPress blog like this one, then you are aware of a recently-added feature, where WordPress creates links at the end of posts if you read the post in its individual URL (i.e. click the title of any post on this blog, and you’ll see a webpage ...

Today I put a new thing on the Internet: Demolition Hold List, Chicago, IL: A place for info about architecturally significant buildings in danger of being demolished (or are already gone). Please take a look at all of the great buildings and, if you can, contribute photos, text, and memories of the...

Do you love blogging? I definitely do! If you love blogging and also got design skills, then I’m sure you’d love to hear about and be a part of this new contest sponsored by WordPress and Infectious, a company that specializes in designing vinyl car decals and laptop and iPhone skins. Wo...

Is the typography on Shortcovers, a new e-book service, up to snuff? Joe Clark, in fawny , his Web log, says no. An example is Sharp Teeth, Toby Barlow’s novel, which Joe describes as "written in free verse about marauding human lycanthropes." Joe complains of problems in both the pa...

On this week's show: Ryan talks to Andy Clarke about Internet Explorer 8, Paul looks at how to simplify your site, and Michael argues that marketing should run the company website. Download this show. Launch our podcast player Housekeeping Don't forget our SXSW coverage Just a quick reminder that ne...

Thought I’d drop in here today again and do a little show n’ tell.  I posted here yesterday, on the Beach Blog,  all about the WordPress goodies that will be available at the ServerBeach exhibit booth at SXSW - all of it free and fabulous! It’s Wednesday (actually, VERY early Wed...