It’s been a heck of a year. To cap it all off, we’re releasing a brand new free wallpaper for January. This month’s design is a collection of actual newspaper headlines collected from U.S. and world newspapers. Each headline represents an event that took place in 2009. Here’s a preview:
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Free desktop wallpaper: December 2009
No matter how busy we get, there’s always time for a free desktop wallpaper. This month’s design is inspired by the Christmas Seals put out each year by the American Lung Association. We’re big fans of tradition, especially this time of year. For over a century, the American Lung Association has been a part of [...]
Continue Reading »Free desktop wallpaper: November 2009
This month’s free desktop wallpaper design was inspired by autumn colors. It blends a little bit of Victorian, grunge, and western, and is available in 8 sizes. Grab yours today!
Continue Reading »How to install and configure sIFR
Using sIFR (scalable Inman Flash Replacement) to replace standard web fonts on our web projects has become a de facto standard for us. Since I use it so often, I wrote a quick tutorial to show you how to get sIFR up and running. This tutorial is geared toward both the novice user installing sIFR [...]
Continue Reading »Free desktop wallpaper: October 2009
Starting this month, 3 Roads Media is going to give away a free monthly wallpaper design to jazz up your computer’s desktop. Each month’s design will feature a calendar for the current month, so your desktop is not only stylish, but functional. This month’s wallpaper is inspired by a passage from Samuel Taylor Coleridge’s ballad [...]
Continue Reading »Free WordPress theme: Elegante
When we re-launched our site a few months back, we built the entire thing on WordPress and integrated our existing blog into the new design. This left the old blog design orphaned, and so – rather than let it gather figurative dust on our server – we’ve decided to release it to the public as [...]
Continue Reading »Improving WordPress page navigation: fixing next_post_link() and previous_post_link()
WordPress’ next_post_link() and previous_post_link() functions are used to navigate between posts in single post (permalink) view. They work great…until you come to the very first or the very last post. When viewing the latest post, next_post_link() displays nothing; when viewing the earliest post, previous_post_link() displays nothing. This can result in some less than friendly navigation. [...]
Continue Reading »Use a ModalBox to edit content inline with ExpressionEngine
A couple months ago, I wrote a post on how to use AJAX to edit content inline – without accessing the control panel and without a page refresh. Since then, I’ve found a much cooler and more practical way of editing content inline: by using a modal box. The result is the same: authorized users [...]
Continue Reading »101 Incredible and Useful Photoshop Brush Sets
After a two month hiatus, I figured I had to come back with something good. I don’t know about you, but when I need a good Photoshop brush, it can take me a long time to find one. I have to search through several sites or more to find what I need, and sometimes I [...]
Continue Reading »Inline editing with ExpressionEngine and AJAX
Web developers are a demanding lot. We’re impatient for change, we wanted it yesterday, and we love shortcuts. I don’t mean the “cutting corners” type of shortcut. I mean the “this will make life easier” type of shortcut. In this post, I’ll show you how you can use AJAX to edit your ExpressionEngine content on [...]
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