I am Ad Taylor
2009
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A Perch Textmate bundle
Posted on : Monday, 13 July, 2009
I thought I would host this up for anyone who is using Perch and Textmate, its not much but it could save someone else the arduous task of making it themselves.
You can download it from here (probably right click ’save as’).
The bundle doesn’t do much more than speed up your workflow on Perch sites, its usage is pretty easy:
- perchc+tab =
perch_content('Content'); - percht+tab = inserts type:text
- perchta+tab = inserts type:textarea
- perchd+tab = inserts type:date
- perchi+tab = inserts type:image
- perchf+tab = inserts type:file
Keep it simple stupid.
- perchc+tab =
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Beautiful site-maps from an unordered list
Posted on : Thursday, 9 July, 2009
So, everyday it usually takes me close to an hour to wade through my RSS feeds and to be honest it can seem a bit of a chore. But today I remembered why I did it; There are some bloody clever people out there just waiting to share beautiful ideas with anyone who will listen.
Matt Everson of Astuteo is one of these people. He has created a CSS file (and accompanying images) that style a unordered list into a great looking, easy to use and easy to maintain sitemap. I just ran it through its paces and it seems fairy bug free (though will take some knocking into shape for IE6) and I can’t wait to use it.
Thanks Matt!
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Draplin’s modern day fable
Posted on : Tuesday, 30 June, 2009
I know I’m a month or two behind on this one but I only just got the chance to watch it. It’s a great story not only for design but for any job/task we undertake.
Draplin tells how we all must ensure everything we create is the best we can possibly can — be it a sign, tax report or a building — as we are shaping our worlds future landscape.
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Wet behind the ears
Posted on : Wednesday, 24 June, 2009
Wet behind the ears.
So the journey begins here and is signified by the start of this blog. The journey? Well I am in the process of (as in waiting for results) graduating from my degree in Multimedia Computing, therefore I am starting the arduous task of finding an agency to hire me. I really want to join an agency as I think it will further me as a creative, much more than going at it freelance like I am now.
With this said I am really enjoying my time — post uni — working on freelance work, and with every job I complete I find I become a considerably better designer/front-end developer. [note — I have no idea what it is I am. Tried to work it out but can't find an answer]
Though none of this is what I intended to post about. What I mean to ramble on about is the intended purpose of this blog and more importantly answer the question I kept on asking myself … What’s the point?
I have been wanting to start a blog for some time now but have been putting it off as I figured it would be, as the saying goes, teaching your grandmother how to suck eggs. I am still yet to graduate and have only been taking commercial projects for a year or two — to use yet another saying — I am a bit wet behind the ears.
Recently I reached a conclusion on the matter; No matter how wet my ears are there will be someone out there with slightly damper ones. So this is my attempt to give back to the community the knowledge and resources’ it gave (and still gives) me when I was starting out.
In a way this is my pre-emptive apology to those who may read something on this blog and think ‘this is horse sh**e’. The posts might be technically crude, they maybe even lean on the side of incorrect but hopefully they will be enough for some other WBTE designer to get on the right tracks.
I plan to post hints, tips and code snippets in the ’shorts’ section of this blog. My aim is to make them the kind of thing that can be helpful off the back of a quick google search (and a boost in traffic wouldn’t hurt too). It is in this section, ‘features’, that I shall be posting tutorials, how-to’s and reviews that need the extra space and design this section can offer.
The first post is going to be the wet-behind-the-ears designers guide to git and github. I have spent a while searching for the perfect version control system for the non-techy and I think git and github are just that. Anyway, that’s for later on next week.
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Seth Godin’s “guy #3″ – inspiring
Posted on : Thursday, 18 June, 2009
Over at Seth Godin’s site he has written an insightful post called “Guy #3″ . It’s a celebration, of sorts, of those who see potential and make things happen — those that are often over-shadowed by guy #1 and #2
It’s not my intention to link to other peoples posts on this blog however I really wanted to share this one.
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