Everything posted by Renaissance-Design
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Any hardware enthusiasts around?
Yup, water cooled it. Spec is nothing special (most of it is a few years old now), but it runs cool, quiet and pretty.
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Any hardware enthusiasts around?
I just finished rebuilding. More pics. Vote for Pedro.
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Private domain name?
Got a thread necromancer here...
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Do you have a business bank account ?
I'm with Santander for my business account, made sense as I already have my personal accounts with them. Their business current accounts are pretty good for folks like us: all standard stuff is free, they only charge for cash deposits.
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How to you track your time?
I use Pancake, fantastic app for time tracking and invoicing.
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What is the best ORM framework?
Doctrine is also worth a mention.
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Headway or Ultimatum
To be honest, professional designers/developers aren't likely to have much experience with drag&drop theme builders because most people will be building themes from scratch. We're not really the target audience for that sort of thing. It's well worth learning to build themes from scratch, and I've written a theme framework called Tabula Rasa to help people with that. Another good framework is Justin Tadlock's Hybrid Core.
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WordPress plugin advice
In this case, assuming you're looking to have front page content plus a section dedicated to blog posts, your best bet is to edit the front-page.php template to include a Loop for your blog posts.
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What Code Editor or IDE are people using?
Netbeans here too.
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Anyone on Steam and What games you got?
Here's me. Always looking to trade to trade, if you fancy any of these let me know what you have.
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New Company - Designers needed
I'm available if you need anyone for WordPress or Magento work.
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What's considered best practice for fixed-width sites?
Coming back to this: more seriously, you should avoid 960.gs like the plague. It was first designed when 10-12px body text was the norm, thankfully we're over that now and using a much more legible and user-friendly 14-16px. The problem with that is that the 960's 20px gutters are too small for larger modern text. If you absolutely have to use a fixed grid, try this.
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What's considered best practice for fixed-width sites?
A truly epic typo.
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New WordPress starter theme: Tabula Rasa
Just a brief update on Rasa: I've switched it to use a fluid grid by default, and added an awesome new developer feature. Install the latest version from GitHub, log in and set WP_DEBUG to "true" to see some MAGIC.
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Please criticise my site here...
Needs more leading.
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Object breaking outside of parent by 1 px despite having a width of 100%
You could try Zen Grids.
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Object breaking outside of parent by 1 px despite having a width of 100%
Likely a rounding error in the browser's rendering engine. Try setting overflow: hidden on the container. Edit: basically, this happens when the inner element's percentage is calculated to 321.78px and the outer to 652.31px, or whatever. The inner element's width is rounded up by a pixel, whereas the outer is either already a whole pixel or rounded down.
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New WordPress starter theme: Tabula Rasa
Coming back to this idea, I've decided against adding them directly in the theme. I may add a plugin to handle that, but someone elsewhere pointed out that if I include shortcodes in a theme, they'll break if the user decides to switch theme.
- Allow user to edit part of a site
- Allow user to edit part of a site
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Advice on PC monitors
I know - makes absolutely no sense. I also don't like the way their new laptop designs are so close to Apple's, when they made a gorgeous distinctively-designed laptop once upon a time that I'm still using, but they cancelled it after a couple of models. Bit off-topic, but it's a similar stupid decision.
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Advice on PC monitors
I'm making do with a pair of 24" at the moment: a Dell 2407WFP and 2408WFP. Really love them. Related: I hate Dell's newer stands. They take up more room on the desk but are actually less stable.
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Advice on PC monitors
Eizo? Oh god yes. I've craved the CG301W since it first came out, but their current range only goes up to 27". That makes me a sad panda.
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New WordPress starter theme: Tabula Rasa
Good call. That's exactly the sort of thing that would be useful to the largest number of potential users. I'm really motivated to get a lot of work done to it this weekend because a certain well-known WP author told me yesterday that it "looks awesome". I'm pretty chuffed.