Yvonne’s Stuff

I’ve backed-up and upgraded my blogging software, Wordpress with no problems so far. Well, not too many problems, anyway.

My site’s been running for about two years, and has been mostly been acting as a link dump, with relatively little actual post writing from me. It’s due for a good spring clean and an upgrade to patch any leaky holes left in the previous incarnation, not to mention reaping the benefits of fancy new features.

Unfortunately, said fancy new features knobbled my design, because I created it before “widgets” came along. Since that design hadn’t been 100% finished, plus, I have a new design in the pipelines, I’ve decided to revert to the default theme, whilst I finish off my new design.

• Adobe Photoshop Express - Made You Look.
  Adobe’s own online version of photoshop. It doesn’t *quite* do everything that the proper photoshop can, but it’s still pretty nifty for doing your basic photo editing on the fly, or on the road.
  (tags: adobe apps computer design editing photoshop photography free online photo tools)
• This page demonstrates legitimate use of the (abbreviation) tag for all platforms.
  (tags: accessibility browser css hack ie html abbr xhtml webdesign webdev)
• 60+ Killer Open Courseware Collections for Web Designers - College Degree.com
  (tags: 3d articles computer content course webdesign education design tutorials courses elearning tutorial free)
• A List Apart: Articles: Graceful E-Mail Obfuscation
  (tags: accessibility ajax apache article blog bot browser email spam javascript webdesign howto php obfuscation webdev)
• Ariana Page Russell
  Artist with a skin condition that makes her skin become raised, red and swollen with the lightest scratch. Naturally, she exploits this and doodles patterns and stuff all over herself… as you do…
  (tags: art design inspiration people performance photography skin artists condition tattoo portfolio illustration)

• Prince: Overview
  Prince is a computer program that converts XML and HTML into PDF documents. It copes really well with CSS, passing the acid2 test. Now I just need to think of a reason why I’d want to use it.
  (tags: book books commercial content conversion converter css pdf xml software print xhtml generator tools)

• YouTube - Polysics- I My Me Mine (Strong Machine 2 Version)
  Completely crazy song with a cute little girl doing some mad robot dancing.
  (tags: cool dance video polysics japan japanese music wtf youtube popping)

• SF art & design portal
  (tags: nice webdesign design flash inspiration portal web art)

• Why should I report paid links to Google?
  Interesting… so, you have to add a rel=nofollow to any advertising links.
  (tags: google reference rel nofollow advertising)
• The Saatchi Gallery - The Last Days of the Lacuna Cabal, Sean Dixon
  HarperCollins, in collaboration with the Saatchi Gallery, are sponsoring a competition to design a book cover for the forthcoming The Last Days of the Lacuna Cabal, Sean Dixon’s debut novel.
  (tags: Saatchi, graphic, design, competition , Sean Dixon, book, cover)

• Moxie Design Studios | Couture Blog Designers | Professional Blog Design & Small Business Website Design
  Cute web design company with work that has that kind of retro girly 50’s chi chi kitsch feel to it. Put a smile on my face anyway.
  (tags: design blog webdesign blogs inspiration portfolio retro ideas 50’s kitsch)

• Cultural Icons from history in one beautiful painting
  (tags: art cool culture drawing painting photo)

• How To: Suck Less at Photoshop
  Screencaster Donnie Hoyle says you suck at Photoshop, and offers a few hilarious NSFW tutorials that contain some naughty words (so don’t watch ‘em in front of the children.)
  (tags: image photo photoshop tutorial tips tutorials videos Donny Hoyle funny humour)
• everystockphoto - searching free photos
  Everystockphoto aggregates images from several sources, like Flickr, imageafter, and stock.xchng so you don’t have to search each place individually. Plus, membership and photo downloads are free.
  (tags: art cc clipart photos stock photography free images photo design graphics)

• kwout | A brilliant way to quote
  “kwout” is a way you quote a part of a web page as an image with an image map. Which means that all of the original links are also maintained.
  (tags: ajax applications blog blogging bookmark screenshot tools quote image tool web2.0 web webservice)
• Hendricks Gin | About Hendrick’s
  A most unusual and delicious gin, made with an infusion of cucumber, also present in the flavor palette is coriander, citrus, and rose petal.
  (tags: drink events gin cucumber)
• YouTube - TheCatsters
  Somewhat interesting series of mini-lectures on maths/category theory. I especially liked the rendition of open-closed cobordisms using colourful pipe cleaners.
  (tags: mathematics reference youtube education lecture category pipecleaner)