Fat Cat Designs

Like It or Lump it The Skinny on Buzz

Debra — Thu, 11 Feb 2010 11:22:48 +0000

Users of Gmail will have noticed a new addition, Buzz. Reactions range from Oh Cool! to OMG!!!!! If you are wondering what all the fuss is about or how to turn it off – read this piece over at Fast Company

Tags: google buzz, social media

Image Resources

Debra — Sun, 09 Nov 2008 17:19:27 +0000

Images can drastically alter the atmosphere and impact of your site. The hard part is finding images that don’t violate copyright. Fortunately there are some reasonably priced image resources for those of us working on limited budgets.

Stock.xchng offers photos and illustrations for free. Most can be used on personal or commercial sites. Most images are large enough to also be used on print media.

Stockxpert offers quality photos and illustrations starting from only $1US. Images are also available through subscription.

morgueFile offers photos and artwork free for commercial and personal use. It doesn’t have a mouseover feature to view images in a larger size, however it does contain a large number of quality images.

iStockphoto does offer images from $1US and have a dollar bin strictly for lower cost images.

Vectorstock offers vector images from $1US and also has a free section.

If you need current photos of news or entertainment events Picapp offers free photos and has a WordPress plugin which allows you to search their photos from your post admin page.

Of course remember to read all copyright and license agreements.

Tags: design, graphics, images

Help for Magazine Themes

Debra — Sat, 08 Nov 2008 03:29:27 +0000

One of the drawbacks of using magazine themes is the way the content limiting features strip out code. This results in things like the excerpt of your story showing up as [caption id="attachment_1308" align="aligncenter" width="300" caption= Not exactly the well crafted look we’re going for.

Mediatricks has solved this issue with the Viva_Content_Trimmer plugin No more image code.

Another issue is that line breaks are non existent, Mediatricks to the rescue again with the Viva Line Breaks plugin.

Tags: design, magazine themes, Mediatricks, plugins, Wordpress

Pundit Theme

Debra — Mon, 26 May 2008 01:40:58 +0000

This is a theme dedicated to the writing. Low on graphics it’s a good theme for writers, pundits anyone who wants the miain focus to be the writing.

Pundit features built in asides, random posts, 5 sidebars, rss link at the end of every post to encourage subscribers and 3 templates–no sidebar, links, sitemap.

Requires some customization, explanation on download page and Read Me.

ZIP 1.22
pundit

Many thanks to Annie at Blog de Pensées Libres : pas de conformisme ici for translating Pundit in French.

French Version
pundit12-fr

Tags: 2 column, design, multi-sidebar, theme