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Web Design at University of Chicago March 17, 2008

I went to the University of Chicago this weekend and checked out some video art, ‘Adaptation‘ at the Smart Museum. It’s a great show of videos that make radical adaptations of familiar texts. The videos are simultaneously engaging and challenging, and have humor. Guy Ben-Ner, for example, turned his kitchen into a set for Moby [...]

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Get Free Wordpress Themes March 17, 2008

Ian is holding a competition at his new ThemeShaper blog: What should the next WordPress Default theme be? It’s a pretty easy contest to enter, all you have to do is leave a comment, with your answer to that question. A good answer could net you free themes from iThemes. It’s as [...]

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Flash Animation for Video March 14, 2008

I like to see the infiltration of the Flash vector aesthetic offline into video. See this Beck video by Mumbleboy and this Knife video (I’m not sure if it was made with Flash, but it could have been).
Here are a couple videos Jenny Schmid and I made using Flash (she has a fantastic flash website [...]

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Top 10 WordPress CMS Plugins March 13, 2008

Based on our experience buiding out dozens of e-Commerce, Gallery, Restaurant, NFP, Directory, and Service-based websites, this is the definitive list of plugins that whip wordpress into shape, and don’t let our clients down.

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Organizing Pages in WordPress March 12, 2008

WordPress can be a very straightforward CMS for many types of websites. Our website, like most of our clients’ sites, runs on WordPress exclusively. Writing and editing static content is pretty easy, but organizing your static content is a little less obvious. There are two parts to organizing pages: the Page [...]

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