http://www.casedsgn.com a design blog you could eat off of Fri, 19 Sep 2008 01:38:29 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Patrick McNeil of Design MeltDown just launched Shop @ Design MeltDown to support his upcoming book, The Web Designers Idea Book. Along with the book, he's also selling some wicked t-Shirts created by designers who are fans of the site. One of which, The Design Bug, was created by me. ... http://www.casedsgn.com/news/t-shirt-for-design-meltdown/ Well, it's been a terrible run with this version of the site. It's been the forgotten child. There's a plan in action for a new, simpler, casedsgn.com and should be re-launching this summer. In the meantime, here's what the TargetScope crew and I have been up to since my last post: - ... http://www.casedsgn.com/design/speaking-of-design/ This blog has sat here, untouched, for a few months now and I figured it was time for a post. Here's a great tip... "Don't assign yourself more than you can handle without loosing your mind". This blog has quietly sat in it's unfinished state for a reason, I don't ... http://www.casedsgn.com/news/dont-start-what-you-cant-finish/ The development of attractive/interesting content continues and there are one or two css bugs to be worked out for IE, but this site is just about ready to officially launch. I've got a stock pile of tutorials/tips started and new topics on design are cropping up every day. Stay tuned ... http://www.casedsgn.com/news/may-1st-reboot-kinda/ EDITED: Ok, after my short stint in St. Louis over the easter holiday, it's now officially time to finish designing & laying the groundwork for this blog. Stay uned this week fior the final updates/additions & hacks. ORIGINAL POST: If you've been following the progress of this re-deign at all, then ... http://www.casedsgn.com/news/a-small-bump-in-the-road/ UPDATE: Looks like it's fixed. I had to edit the .htaccess file to re-direct accordingly. So now all the article links make sense as a readable URL. Ok, I edited my permalink structure and it broke all my links. I'd really like to implement the date hierarchal "year/mo/da/name" and the "category/name"structure ... http://www.casedsgn.com/news/testing-new-permalink-structure/ I've spent the morning figuring out how Wordpress handles Category and Single Post views. It's much easier than I thought to get categories to display using specific templates. However, displaying a single post within in a certain category template was a little less obvious, and I had to do some ... http://www.casedsgn.com/news/category-and-single-post-pages-built/ Here's a tip... for myself. Dude! Go read a PHP book. There's a lot this CMS offers, but so much more if you knew how to code custom functions and such. Get busy. Learn the goods. Stop typing this dumb ass tip and go make yourself useful. http://www.casedsgn.com/news/a-filler-tip-for-testing/ Well, for my first tip... throw internet explorer in the recycle bin (pc) or trash can (mac). One of the most frustrating things in the world is to break a perfectly valid css/xhtml layout to work in IE. Requiring more hacks than a chopping block, ie has got to be ... http://www.casedsgn.com/news/a-tip-off-the-old-block/ The site is in development. Instead of launching when the last detail is added, (or even the first) I figured what the heck... I don't have much traffic, might as well just put it out there and let anyone who's interested see the site being built. Enjoy... or not. http://www.casedsgn.com/news/testing-the-news/