MediaWiki Skins Design — Designing attractive skins and templates for your MediaWiki site is the first book by UK based web designer Richard Carter. The book covers practical tips from the very basics to integrating MediaWiki with popular social networking services such as YouTube, Twitter and Delicious. It is published by PACKT publishing (ISBN 978-1-847195-20-3) […]
Where is Your Username registered Finds out if you've got accounts with various web2.0 places. (tags: useful)
Colours Are Brighter: Various Artists “If, as a parent, you are sick of the fact that "children's" albums seem to consist solely of muzak versions of nursery rhymes, and you'd secretly prefer to be playing the latest Killers album, then this should be top of your purchase list. It seems such a simple concept – […]
Roger Waters on Rick Wright's death “I was very sad to hear of Rick's premature death, I knew he had been ill, but the end came suddenly and shockingly. My thoughts are with his family, particularly Jamie and Gala and their mum Juliette, who I knew very well in the old days, and always liked […]
Well that’s not strictly true. During my first year of employment with the Open University (OU) in 2002-2003 I undertook a 10 point course on web design which was being piloted. I think it might have evolved into Design and the web. It wasn’t really my bag as it was pitched at a much too […]
Nikon 50mm f/1.4 AF-S The reason you want this new 50mm f/1.4 is that you can tweak manual focus simply by touching the ring without needing to move a switch, and that its performance ought to be stellar at f/1.4 compared to all previous 50mm f/1.4 lenses made by anyone. The only gotcha is its […]
Subyo.com Subyo.com – find, use and create subtitles for YouTube videos. Quick and easy. — If only YouTube could import them from here. (tags: webdesign video subtitles accessibility) Subtitle Workshop Subtitle Workshop is the most complete, efficient and convenient freeware subtitle editing tool. It supports all the subtitle formats you need and has all the […]
Nikon D40 User's Guide No-nonsense user guide for the Nikon d40. I've pretty much made my mind up on this camera. I'm a novice at photography (just look at my Flickr photostream for evidence). I want a dSLR so I can control the flash (point away from subject) and focus (control bg blur) and do […]
smush it! "Smushit.com is a service that goes beyond the limitations of Photoshop, Fireworks & Co. It uses image format specific non-lossy image optimization tools to squeeze the last bytes out of your images – without changing their look or visual quality. You'll get a report of how many bytes you can save by optimizing […]
MediaWiki special pages (e.g. special:allpages) Info on what all the mediawiki specialpages do. For example, list all pages, categories, protected pages, images, users etc. (tags: mediawiki webdesign) Five CSS design browser differences I can live with | For A Beautiful Web Andy Clarke gives practical tips on some CSS techniques that don't work in IE6, […]