Allchorn Design

Wordpress by default makes use of the TinyMCE rich text editor and as such, it’s quite extendable. It’s very well documented in their documentation wiki and does a lot more than what Wordpress enables out of the box.

This is what I was looking to do

Wordpress’ WYSIWYG displaying table editing tools on the bottom row.

Shock horror! I hear some standardistas ranting about tables being evil already. Well, I hate to burst some bubbles, but tables were invented for a reason. Believe it or not, for tabular data!

Lately I’ve had a lot of blog-worthy material rattling around in my brain. Some of which will have to wait, so I’ve filed them all under drafts in my cerebral cortex. Today however I experienced something that personally marks a point at which I believe the website design industry is starting to be irreparably damaged.

Lowballer
Someone that sells products or services for drastically less than what it’s worth.

This isn’t meant to be a rant, but more an expression of my concern over what seems to be seriously effecting the industry. Not just my pocket, but the quality of the web in general and that effects the website owners themselves. The people I affectionately call clients.

This was an interesting little experiment for me. It was an idea I got from filming myself take a motorcycle apart and playing it at 3x normal speed.

I found CamStudio which very effectively recorded all my on-screen movements, and in Movie Maker (I’m a web designer, not a video guru), I stitched it to some video from my Sony Handycam. Threw in some nice music and put some titles and credits in.

Here’s the result.

Having worked with content management systems both proprietary, home grown and open source in the past, I’ve taken a little time lately to step back and look at the pros and cons of each. Let it be known that while I’ve been heavily involved in the development of a home grown CMS in the past, [...]

Having adopted Google Chrome from the day it was released, I must say it’s an amazing web browser. For web browsing, speed and reliability I’d give it a 10/10.
That being said, I can’t deny the fact that I sorely miss a number of Firefox plugins that are too important in my regular browsing and web [...]

A quick mention this so you can be one of the first to dive in and test drive Google’s latest release on their ever growing list of wares and services.

The new browser by Google called Chrome was officially announced on Tuesday 2nd September 2008. Featuring some really useful and slightly different ways of operating.
It’s apparent [...]