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Thursday, November 8, 2007

Make My Logo Bigger Cream and More

Designers constantly have to balance a clients change requests with the overall concept and direction of a given design. This is probably the most difficult part of the design process in my opinion.

So were we ever pleased to come upon the Who Needs Designers website and their miraculous Make My Logo Bigger Cream.

This is a must watch for any designer out there... web or print.

Filed Under: For Laughs

Saturday, October 20, 2007

EE Multiple Site Manager

With the launch of Expression Engine 1.6 comes a new module that allows you to manage multiple websites using one Expression Engine installation. Here's a video demonstation showing what the module can do:

Filed Under: Expression Engine

Saturday, October 20, 2007

Expression Engine Templates

We've seen a number of people landing on the MediaGirl website while looking for Expression Engine templates. While we don't provide any templates on this site, we've taken a couple of minutes to put together a list of sites that do have free templates. There aren't a ton out there.

Expression Engine
Check out the main Expression Engine website for a list of 27 templates that can quickly be downloaded.

SimplyGold
This site has 6 Expression Engine teplates to download. The "Fresh" Theme doesn't look half bad. Also check out their Expression Engine Photo Gallery template.

Vaya Design
Vaya Design offers up a Teal Template for Expression Engine.

Blog Studios
The Blog Studios Expression Engine templates aren't free but we are including them here anyway so folks can take a look.

Novacron
This site just has a couple of EE templates but they are worth checking out.

EE Templates - Added 10-16-2008
EE Templates has several Expression Engine templates for free or paid download.

EE Design - Added 10-16-2008
EE Design has a couple of EE templates which are listed under the "Templates Quicklist" header in the right navigation of the website.

Filed Under: Expression Engine

Thursday, September 6, 2007

On Having Layout

I spent several hours today sorting out an IE7 CSS bug that was solved by the concepts described in this article -- On Having Layout.

I'm adding this here as a bookmark but also as a heads up for other programmers dealing with CSS related IE6/7 bugs.

"A lot of Internet Explorer's rendering inconsistencies can be fixed by giving an element “layout.”" Who knew you had to give IE layout??

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To give layout to IE6 and lower use the underscore hack:
.gainlayout { _height: 0; }

or use the IE6 conditional
<!--[if lte IE 6]><style>.gainlayout { height: 1px; }</style><![endif]-->

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To give layout to IE7 use the min-height property:
.gainlayout { min-height: 0; }

or use the IE7 conditional
<!--[if IE 7]><style>.gainlayout { zoom: 1; }</style><![endif]-->

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Filed Under: Bookmarks, Coding

Wednesday, July 18, 2007

Internet Science

If you are needing tp brush up on a little science, click on the Internet Periodic Table below. It's a visual representation of the Internet's most popular sites.

Filed Under: Bookmarks