Episode Nineteen - Xmas Special | 21/12/2008
Download Episode 19 (mp3) or listen right here:
We wish you a merry festive period and a satisfactorily refreshing New Year.
Can you spot all 3 subtle earworms in this podcast?
Linky-poos
- Letter from the Welsh Space Agency
- The Shorty Awards
- John’s somewhat ancient photo gallery template
- Clientcopia
- Mr T in Your Pocket
- Captain Plughole
- Mr T’s Treat Your Mother Right
- Font of the week: Galaxie Polaris
- Paper Prototyping on A List Apart
- Things – Task management on the Mac
- The IE6 Equation
- ‘Minority Report’ OS brought to life
- Lumen
- Dr. Who logos
- Sir Ken Robinson: Do schools kill creativity?
Linky-poos by John Oxton, not Simon Clayson but please email Simon if there is any missing links.
User experience design links
A few regular spots John Oxton visits for UX info:
Finally, the Nielsen Norman Group Report on Agile Usability: Best Practices for User Experience on Agile Development Projects is a whopping $84 for the PDF but if you are a designer inside an Agile Development team and you are struggling with the whole thing, I thoroughly recommend it for you and your colleagues.
Tally ho and chocks away!
Comment!
There’s an old Textpatten plugin, mdp_calendar, that still works rather well for outputting a proper calendar.
Re: Photoblog CMS
As one of these photoblogger type chaps, I’ve been using one of the most common dedicated photoblogging packages: Pixelpost. It does quite a reasonable job, is easily customizable and has a fairly large user base to draw upon for both pre-made templates, plug-ins and help when things (inevitably) don’t quite work as easily as they should.
As you both said in the podcast, a lot of the others can do it—there’s a handful of people who seem to use Wordpress for their photoblogs, but they are almost uniformly (a) identical and (b) less than refined on the design side (read as a bit clunky and ugly).
(There are also a handful of sites for hosting photoblogs—other than Flickr—if one is so inclined.)
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RE the Events Calendar topic.
Like the new version of TXP, ExpressionEngine features entry and expiry dates. :) On recent projects where we’ve needed an events calendar we’ve looked at niche solutions such as ‘Easy PHP Calendar’ though.
I’ve also seen a few PHP scripts which allow you to pull events from gCal and display them in whatever format you wish within your own page templates. :)
Nathan Pitman 705 days ago