Archive for December, 2008
BiD Relaunched. Diving into a New Year!
Posted on 26. Dec, 2008 by Rick.
I have some exciting news! Beautyindesign.com is changing it’s face, it’s business model, and it’s content. A long time has passed since there has been activity on BiD but that’s all changing now! 2009 has some exciting news in store…
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Surviving a Server Crash
Posted on 23. Dec, 2008 by Rick.
Due to the remote nature of our employees, my company purchased a mac-mini and Leopard Server to fix our collaboration problems. I personally was excited about it because I was tired of collaborating through email, shared hosting accounts, etc. So we bought it, worked on, became reliant on it, and then it crashed. So what [...]
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The XiD CSS Framework (based on Blueprint)
Posted on 12. Dec, 2008 by Rick.
The CSS framework used in most designs we do is based on Blueprint’s CSS framework. Our version is leaned down more by removing the majority of the grid styling while retaining the resets and typography classes.
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Design to Code Conversion Workflow
Posted on 12. Dec, 2008 by Rick.
After doing so many design conversion to XHTML / CSS, the workflow has gotten pretty systematic. Here you’ll find the overall structure on how this workflow goes for me and the guys.
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Joomla Install via SVN = Faster install
Posted on 12. Dec, 2008 by Rick.
A lot of people install Joomla by downloading the zip file with all the Joomla files and then following that by uploading it to their server. This, of course, takes extra time as uploading thousands of files is a little laborious. Well, if you can learn to do this via SVN, it will [...]
