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Design Something Every Day – Day 10

Right, we have a problem. It’s day 10 and I am all out of ideas and inspiration and creativity. Today I have even resorted to outright theivery for the inspiration behind today’s bit of work. I started off this design session with no idea what to do, so headed off to Twitter to check out what people had been posting recently to #daily365. One of the posts pointed toward Alma Hoffman’s blog. Alma seems to be having a similar problem so made a simple clean image outlining the problem – check it out.

I thought that was a pretty good interpretation of how I was feeling today, so decided I would do something similar.

Except then I started having fun and decided that what I’d got might look ok as a desktop background. If you like the two images below there a number of links underneath to various desktop sized version for you to download. Read more …

Posted in Fireworks, Freebies, daily365
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Jan 10

Design Something Every Day – Day 9

The (pretty tenuous link to) t-shirt designs series is over! Today we start on something new. I’ll be honest, I don’t know what that something is yet. It might not be anything. It might be something. I’m not sure yet. All I know is I drew some circles.

Original AI file here if you want it: circles.ai

Concentric Circles with focus

Posted in Fireworks, Freebies, Illustrator, daily365
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Jan 9

[NOT INCLUDED IN SELECTED SKIN!] – Widgets not appearing in b2evolution

I finally got around to upgrading my b2evolution blog today from version 1.10 to the much improved 2.4. Version 2 of the b2evolution blog has seen a lot of improvement, and as such my upgrade from the previous version was not as simple as I had hoped. The main problem was that my custom skin needed to be completely rebuilt based around the new template. Whereas the main page template in 1.10 was called “_main.php” it’s not called “index.main.php”, and uses a whole new array structure to pull in various bits.

One fantastic addition is the inclusion of installable widgets that get automatically added to your blog once you install them in the back end. However, upon completing and installing my custom skin my admin are was telling me “[NOT INCLUDED IN SELECTED SKIN!]” next to my Sidebar, Sidebar 2, Header, Menu and Page Top sections. Sidebar is the only one I’m using, and I know that I’ve got it included on the page. The 2 widgets I already had installed were showing up fine, but trying to add new ones resulted in an error message and them not showing up on the front end.

The b2evolution forums and support were no help, but I finally ran into the solution after some random clicking about on things. If you go to Blog Settings > Skin > Manage Skin you will see a “Reload” icon next to each skin. Hit that for your custom skin and it will rescan your files and realise what areas are included on your page.

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Nov 22

Bookmarking Toolbar v1.0

A short while ago I wrote my own Javascript social bookmarking toolbar (like you see on the BBC news pages – current random example). It is pretty much a total rip off of the AddThis bookmarking system, with one pretty important exception. You host the scripts and images on your own site. On the plus side it means you can do whatever you want with the script, but on the downside it means that updates are not automatic. Once you install it that is it, unless you come back here and download an updated version. Maybe one day I’ll offer it as a hosted solution. But for now you guys get scripts and nothing else!

I like how it works, so I thought I would make it available to the masses.

You’ve got two options:

  1. Download a default example version here and then play about with the scripts, or;
  2. Customise your script below and copy and paste the code onto your pages as instructed.

Up to you!
Read more …

Posted in Freebies, Javascript
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Feb 10

Adobe Dreamweaver 9 crashes when selecting text in code view

I just started doing some work on one of my sites and an annoying problem cropped up which I had (thankfully) forgotten all about. Whenever I selected any text at all, regardless of length, language, or any other criteria, in code view Dreamweaver would freeze and XP would prompt me to kill the program. Fortunately this problem seemed to be restricted to one specific include file in one site. Problem now is I have quite a bit of work to do in this file, and I don’t fancy using Notepad. I like code colouring, alright?

Renaming the file, copying it, or saving it elsewhere using Notepad did sod all to fix it. There’s nothing wrong with the code, because I’m amazing and don’t write broken code. Dreamweaver is just being plain balls.

Google to the rescue! Maybe I was being a little bit hopeful with my search for “dreamweaver 9 crash”, but I guess luck was on my side today. Result number 2 – Adobe Dreamweaver CS3 crashes when selecting text in code view …

Swish! A quick read, some quick clicks, and my problem fixed! Here’s a short copy and paste of what to do to fix the issue:

The crux of it was deleting the winfilecachexxxxx.dat file – Once doing this, it was plain sailing and hasn’t crashed since.
On Windows Xp, the file is at:-
[drive]:\Documents and Settings\[username]\Application Data\Adobe\Dreamweaver
9\Configuration
On Windows Vista, you can find it in:-
[drive]:\Users\[username]\AppData\Roaming\Adobe\Dreamweaver 9\Configuration
or accessible via windows explorer in
Desktop\[username]\Roaming\Adobe\Dreamweaver 9\Configuration

My Dreamweaver is back to it’s awesome self now, running like sex. Thank you very much Martin Parry for being at the top of Google! I hope you don’t mind me ripping off and linking your junk.

Posted in Dreamweaver, Fixes
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Dec 23
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