Web Designer and Developer
Recently I upgraded my Adobe Suite to CS4 and upon launching one of the application this dialog box appears…
I have been using Adobe products for many years. From my early days in design I was using Photoshop
In recent years I have found the the quality of the Adobe products, particularly their web development applications, Flash, Dreamweaver and Fireworks, has been slowly getting worse.
No idea why or how this happened.
Seemed to happen not long after upgrading to Snow Leopard. Had a search around and found other people had been experiencing blurry/pixelated icons too. Also, this thread on the Apple Support web site.
Anyway, I just dragged the Safari application into the dock again and that fixed it for me – weird…
Nikki’s Debut EP “Now or Never” is available to download…
Nikki gigs regularly in Oxford, London and the surrounding areas… She is currently working on her second EP which will be released later in 2009 (fingers crossed). The first one, ‘Now or Never’ is available NOW on iTunes and Amazon:
For updates and forthcoming gigs, you can follow Nikki at nikkiloy.com, Facebook and Twitter.
PS: She’s also available for booking for your event and I can assure you she’s great! (I’m she she won’t mind me saying)
So, this is how Twitter could be useful!
I have to say, I haven’t really got into Twitter yet. My one and only ‘Tweet’ is now over 1 month old which shows my embarrassing failure to get to grips with what Twitter is all about. Yes, I’m one of the 552,828 followers of Stephen Fry (at the time of writing), but up until now I’ve failed so see the usefulness of Twitter in a real-world environment – not just to know when Stephen in going to be “Back in time for tea”.
So, hit London with 48 hours of tube strikes and suddenly it all becomes clear. Follow BBCTravelalert on Twitter and get instant up-to-date feedback on the latest travel situation from London’s commuters – much more useful that the TFL service updates which are rarely accurate.
So I’ve not posted anything for over 6 months…
…why on earth not?
Well, mainly because I have been really busy, but also because I’ve been spending much of my time getting lost in WordPress.
By getting lost I don’t mean disorientated and confused – in fact WordPress is a great little blogging/CMS system for the non-technical user with it’s intuitive user interface and now in version 2.7 the ability to cusomise the admin, hiding panels and options that you don’t use on a regular basis.
I’ve been absorbing myself in the code, examining plugins and themes, and getting to grips with hooks and filters. Under the bonnet, WordPress provides an extensive interface into which developers can create complex plugins and created rich, visual, interactive themes. And one thing is clear…
…a WordPress site does not necessarily have to look or behave like a blog.
Check out some of these themes and sites – they all run WordPress, honest (or at least they did the last time I looked):
