Generate Placeholder Images On The Fly
A few days ago I found a new favorite resource when doing mockups. Often enough you need a placeholder image just to occupy some space while positioning elements and not necessarily when showing clients (don’t use these placeholders for that).
Placehold.it is a service that generates nice and tidy placeholder images on the fly (which can be formatted too if you like). By just using the format and their domain as your image URL, you get a nice-looking placeholder, much better than a blank image tag.
<img src="http://placehold.it/350x150">
Using the Bootstrap from Twitter To Kick Start Your Projects
Personally, I’m a big fan of ways to save time when coding, especially when it comes to common interface elements and features. Having used various CSS frameworks before I have just started to include the Bootstrap framework, made by a couple of Twitter employees. Let me share with you why.
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Launching A New Website For FocusOnNature
I’m very pleased to share the latest website that we are launching with you. During December and January we have been working with Einar Erlendsson to create a new and professional web experience for FocusOnNature, his company that runs photography workshops in beautiful Iceland.
Einar approached us in November when he had realized that building a site himself would have been too time consuming. His requests were clear. A clean and professional design that highlighted the gorgeous photography that frankly speaks for itself.
Read More »I could not have imagined how professionally Erik worked and how great our co-operation would be making the new FocusOnNature in Iceland website.
- Einar Erlendsson, FocusOnNature
Upgrade Your WordPress Installations to 3.3.1
Just yesterday a new version of WordPress was released. WordPress 3.3.1 is a security update that comes with 15 nice bug and security patches. Since this update doesn’t alter the database in any way it is a very straight forward one that should be foolproof.
As always we recommend backing up your files and database before doing any update on your site. All of our clients on our WordPress Updating Plan have already been upgraded safely to WordPress 3.3.1.
How To Add a Banner To Your WordPres Plugin Page
Last week, Matt Mullenweg noted in a post over on the official WordPress Development Blog that they are experimenting with a new feature on the plugin pages of the official plugin directory. You may already have noted a grey field above all plugins which has the title and a short description of it.
New now however is the ability to add a banner to your plugin page just above this. For now this is just an experiment which as Matt notes means that the size of the banner and the look can change at any time. Since it is being very well received, I would assume that the idea is not going away. Read on to learn how you can add a banner of your own and see some examples.
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