Posted by: Anthony Olsen in Untagged on
Jun 07, 2007
We've updated our RSS feed to include articles published from the resource section of our site as well as news regarding template releases - dont forget to update your RSS bookmark with the new url.
This is a beautiful article that delivers some amazing colour palettes to your desktop via the magical world of the butterfly. Its simply amazing ... 
Color Lovers is actually a great find for anyone looking for some intuitive colour combinations. There are a great range of palettes available with a vibrant community supporting them.
Posted by: Anthony Olsen in Untagged on
Jun 06, 2007
This is a really good script for adding custom forms to Joomla. Its really very good for creating complex forms and is a lot more intuitive than a lot of the addon forms available for Joomla. We built the make contact and five question survey for Joomla for a little project but if you want to make some seriously flexible forms you should check the Dagon Design form mailer.
This is such a great little mambot for adding audio to your blog or site. All you need to do is include the mambot tags in your content and with the file name (relative or absolute) in between the
This is our inaugural screencast in a series of screencasts that we will be producing to help new Joomla users. The first is really a quick description of how to create a poll question and display
The great people over at Koller Media have a great resource for anyone wanting to push a new flavour onto their template or design. The background gallery called pattern4u has an amazingly diverse number of background gifs that can be easily added to your template in the body tag or any other div for that matter - check it out!
Posted by: Anthony Olsen in web design, resources on
May 18, 2007
Another great little OSX app is called Paparazzi. Its basically a browser screen capture software that is very flexible, intuitive and easy to use. Just navigate to the browser page you want to capture, set the dimensions of the page or how you want to crop it and then press capture. The resulting images are 100% accurate to Safari's view point and can be saved in .png format.
Checkout the screenshots of the May Template Release - Bamboo Clean to see the results.
Posted by: Anthony Olsen in Untagged on
May 04, 2007
Picturesque is a small app for mac that can do some wonderful things. It's basically the easy way to create those web 2.0 images and effects at the click of a button or the slide of a fader.
Posted by: Anthony Olsen in web design, resources on
May 04, 2007
Panic have just released the Coda code and design interface and it has got a lot of promise. It plugs itself as an all in one designing platform and I think that as far as web design goes its certainly got most of the bases covered but really needs a few tweaks to make it a app of choice.
Posted by: Anthony Olsen in Untagged on
Apr 17, 2007
Generally if you choose to show the category name under the content that's what it does - but in the april Bamboo Loaded Blog package I wanted to add some text to the category name listed under each article in the same way that you can see it on some other blogging platforms like wordpress etc. So I realised that its actually pretty easy to insert some text such as "posted in" or "filed in" before the category name.
