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I got sick of  uploading the same five or six (or seven or eight) plugins every time I started a new WordPress site, so I made a plugin, WP Install Profiles (WPIP) to automate the process. Download it from the Plugin Directory . Plugins -> Bulk Install Profiles Here’s how to use it: Install it on an existing WP installation. Go to Plugins -> Bulk Install Profiles to get to the good stuff. In the right column, click the button marked “Download a profile of this site”. WPIP will... Read Full Story

Sometimes you don’t need Fort Knox. I recently worked on a tiny web app that didn’t store any secure data, but needed some sort of authentication so that saved data could be retrieved later or on a separate device. Sessions weren’t appropriate, and a full-blown authentication system would be overkill. I decided to try a single-field authentication system, using only a passphrase. Again, security is not important. I just want to save some data and go back and get it later. Here’s how it... Read Full Story

« Safely Convert an Existing Drupal Site to Clean URLs Complaint Department , fonts posted by Jon | Saturday, April 4, 2009 | Comment?   printer-friendly | x e-mail this post photo courtesy Box of Lettuce Solve my problem.  When I download new fonts from Dafont or FontFreak or wherever, the process goes like this: Download the zip file. Drag the .ttf file from the zip folder to my desktop. Right click on the .ttf file. Select ‘Install’ from the... Read Full Story

« Get a Free Photoshop Action to Automatically Make a Border on Your Photo Web Design posted by Jon | Sunday, February 22, 2009 | Comment?   printer-friendly | x e-mail this post Image courtesy Midnight-digital Here’s my dilemma: I run a site powered by Drupal 5.  When I originally set it up, I couldn’t run the Clean URL test because of a problem with my GoDaddy hosting account ( read the fix here ).  I’ve since fixed the issue, but in the meantime, the... Read Full Story

« Rifflet Voted One of the Top 200 Digital Music Startups of ‘08 Computer Machines posted by Jon | Wednesday, February 18, 2009 | Comment?   printer-friendly | x e-mail this post Photo courtesy Pink Sherbet Photography Here’s a Photoshop action you can install to create an instant border around your images. It works like this when you set it in motion: Create a new layer Fill the new layer with white Convert the new layer’s blending mode to... Read Full Story

« My Favorite Favicon Projects posted by Jon | Monday, February 9, 2009 | 1 Comment   printer-friendly | x e-mail this post Image courtesy Don Solo It’s true.  Musically has an interesting compilation of the year’s best lesser-known Digital Music Startups , some brilliant, and others…Let’s just say we were over 100 slots behind Bompaboo, the online store for used .mp3 files. They say: We ended up with 200 everything from social networks to streaming... Read Full Story

« Use ‘Save for Web’ to Make a Website Mockup Good Advertising posted by Jon | Tuesday, January 27, 2009 | Comment?   printer-friendly | x e-mail this post From Menards.com . It’s a nice touch that seems rooted in a designer’s genuine affection for the brand, or at least its history.  Or maybe they’re jerks and wouldn’t pay until that guy’s face was on there somewhere, and that was the compromise.  Sheesh, clients. In case you don’t know who the face is... Read Full Story

« Google Adds Every Picture Ever to Archives Web Design posted by Jon | Sunday, November 23, 2008 | Comment?   printer-friendly | x e-mail this post courtesy Striatic via Flickr It’s hard presenting a Photoshop  mockup to a client, especially one that hasn’t gone through the  design process before. Why can’t I click anywhere?  Is it broken? Do you have any idea  what you’re doing? Calm down, tough guy.  The problem with sending a mockup as it sits in... Read Full Story

« Make a Recent Bookmarks Widget with LaterThis and PHP Design posted by Jon | Wednesday, November 19, 2008 | Comment?   printer-friendly | x e-mail this post Not exactly, but close.  Google is now hosting  “millions” of images from the archives of LIFE magazine, the vast majority of which were never before published.  The best part: the scans are wallpaper-makingly ginormously huge.   Some of them suffer from some halftone issues, but hey, what do you... Read Full Story

« Some Very Nice Dudes Give Rifflet The Once Over Computer Machines , Web Design posted by Jon | Tuesday, October 28, 2008 | Comment?   printer-friendly | x e-mail this post I like LaterThis a lot, because I  work on two computers and I like to access my bookmarks on both of them.   It works like this: Find a page you want to save, click on the LaterThis bookmarklet in your browser toolbar (or bookmarks list) and walla-it’s automatically saved to your... Read Full Story