ast week a friend of mine forward me a post in which the development language was compared to a boat. It was inspired by a recent forum post, and has lot of fun so I decide to share.
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After I made a WordPress 2.5 Interface Review I decided to upgrade my blog and to test “on live” the new improvements & features. The upgrade process went fine, I have no problems. I must admit that the new WP 2.5 is great, a lot of improvements but I still don’t like their color scheme.
If you don’t know how to upgrade you blog read the Upgrading instructions or contact me and I will help you.
But!!!! Writing the previous post I found one big problem or bug. I do not know exactly in my case if this was a bug. I could not upload images to the post, and I wasn’t very happy about this. After a long research I found a list of solutions to the problem, Things to try. In my case the #7 worked, it was the only one that I tried because the other I excluded:
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Hi! After a week of vacations I’m finally back to my blog and work :), and I want to post about some of my new acquisitions after a week in London.
There are 4 books written by Julius Wiedemann: Web Design Studios 2, E-Commerce, Flash Sites, Best Portfolios
A great catalogs of the best web studios in the world. Very usefull as a benchmarking guide in webdesign area. If you’re interested in web 2.0 you will enjoy these books because they are a great resource packed with lots of web design ideas and executions.
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I changed my blog design two months ago and I got good reviews on it, and I’m happy about that, but what I don’t like is that “designers” have already start to copy it or parts of it.
I was reading the rss feeds for some css galleries and I got the “beautiful” surprise to find a similar one: http://www.revota.com/. It looks that it’s a web agency that are doing web development and design. Why they didn’t come with some original design? Good question. The background it’s the same, the headlines & links colors are the same, the content areas are the same. And as I see it contains elements from other well know designer that I don’t want to mention.
Johnathan Snook has write about Maintaining your Personal Brand Online, where he talks about why personal brand it’s important and how to do it, but it looks that maintaining a personal brand is complicated. You have to be very creative so that other people don’t “clone” you.
Wordpress 2.5 Sneak Peek - A customizable dashboard, multi-file upload, built-in galleries, one-click plugin upgrades, tag management, built-in Gravatars, full text feeds, and faster load times sound interesting? Then WordPress 2.5 might be the release for you. It’s been in the oven for a while, and we’re finally ready to open the doors a bit to give you a taste. For […]
After reading the above post I downloaded the Release Candidate of Wordpress 2.5, installed on my local machine and test it. I wanted to see how the interface looks and what is new in WP 2.5. I must admit that I wasn’t very surprised. I was expecting more changes in the good way.
There are some good stuff and bad stuff that I will post about.
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