The Copyblogger theme by Chris Pearson is an elegant and simple template that is really easy to personalise to suit your blog. The theme is a “digitally remastered” version of what was in use at Copyblogger, which as you can see has undergone a makeover. Not plastic surgery, because it already had such a lovely […]
Design
Surprising Art
On Monday we had a BBQ for ASSSoc. While we had that we were also making and selling badges. A man that works at the uni came to see what we were doing and I sold him a badge that said “be happy” with the chemical structure of serotonin on it for 50c (bargain!). He […]
Transparency and GIFs
How the heck do you get nice edges in GIFs with transparent backgrounds? I’ve been pondering this for sometime and I think I finally have the answer! It’s deceptively simple and I expect others have probably been doing this for some time. First some background Graphics Interchange Format or GIF (supposedly pronounced jif, but I’ve […]
Wedding things
Last night I helped my friends with their wedding invitations. They’d seen a site that we used some ideas from and I think they’re going to be great when they’re put together. The website is TearDrop and it has some novel and cool invitation ideas. I really like what they’ve done because they’re so simple. […]
Sharing the link love
I’ve come across so many cool things lately that I wanted to share them all at once! Uh!Log is one of the photoblogs that I subscribe to. I like Karin’s work because she like’s to experiment and try new styles, and she usually does it well. She’s been posting a lot of macro shots lately […]
Open Clipart is back!
Open Clipart is a brilliant resource for clipart! There’s an abundance of SVGs that people have lovingly made and uploaded for your use. Some also come as PNGs if that’s more convenient for you. Access to the images was down for some time while they were doing something with servers, but now they’re back up […]
