2007 January - Matt Heerema : Web Design

Archive for January, 2007

Web Tool Find Of The Month: FlickrSSP

I just put together a new site for a client/friend of mine who wanted to have their photos stored in a flickr account, but also wanted them displayed on their site with as a slide show. Of course the obvious tool of choice was SlideShowPro which is a cinch to set up, and not to difficult to administer using SSP Director. However, having to teach them to use three separate administration interfaces for their site (Wordpress, Flickr, and SlideshowPro Director) was not what I wanted to do.

Brian Sweeting saved the day for me. FlickrSSP displays all of your Flickr photosets on your own site using SlideShowPro

> FlickrSSP allows you to use Flickr and SlideshowPro to display all of your Flickr photosets on your own website instead of just your recent photos via the RSS feed.

Thank you Brian Sweeting! I loved it so much I donated to the cause (though I’m not sure how much he has in mind as a good donation.) My plan is to kick him some money every time I use this handy little tool, which might be a bit more frequently now. I recommend you do the same.

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Posted January 30th, 2007 in Web Design by Matt

Web Design Contracts: Why Bother

Nick Gould writes an excellent article for Digital Web Magazine on Web Design Contracts:

Digital Web Magazine - Web Design Contracts: Why Bother

Design work is often difficult to define in advance, and is inherently subjective. A contract helps to remove some of this ambiguity. For the reasons I’ll outline below, working without a contract is unwise and, in this day and age, should be unnecessary. No reputable client will object to some form of documentation (especially if you are willing to do all the work of producing this document). If the client does object, I suggest you run away—far and fast.

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Posted January 23rd, 2007 in Web Design by Matt

Effects Of Drugs And Alcohol On Web Building

Effects Of Drugs And Alcohol On Web Building.

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Posted January 23rd, 2007 in External Link by Matt

isnoop.net CSS Superdouche

Crude title, but, isnoop.net CSS Superdouche can significantly reduce the size and complexity of your CSS by programmatically stripping unneeded content, stripping redundant calls, and intelligently grouping the remaining element names.

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Posted January 20th, 2007 in External Link by Matt