Weekly Link Round-Up #22
Posted on March 15, 2008 in Web | 2 Comments »
Well, I didn’t get much sleep this week, because I spent the entire week staying up late playing with my new MacBook Pro. It’s amazing. Best purchase ever. When I wasn’t playing, this is what I found interesting this week:
- HTML Reference
Nice reference of all of the HTML elements, attributes, deprecated attributes, etc. Nothing new, but just good for reference.
- The Secrets Of Grunge Design
I love this style, to an extent. I want to incorporate some small touches into the next redesign.
- Newzald: From Moleskine to Market
Wow, that is quite a process. I think I’ll let the experts create the fonts, and I will just enjoy the fruits of their labor.
- WordPress is Open Source
Uh oh, Wordpress vs. Movable Type drama. I’ll tell you what: switching from Movable Type to Wordpress was the best decision ever. I think Wordpress has a much brighter future.
- Hulu
So after being in beta for a while, Hulu finally went public. I must say, I was really impressed. Plus, it gives me a chance to catch up on my new obsession: 30 Rock
- Firefox 3 Memory Usage
This looks really promising. I know on a PC, Firefox is a memory hog, but I haven’t noticed it since I’ve been on my Mac.
- Apple’s Design Process Through a Keyhole
Holy crap, Apple designs 10 mock ups before narrowing it down!? Maybe that’s why their products are almost always awesome. That design process it pretty intense.
NateMarch 21, 2008 at 8:18 am
Having just set up a couple sites using Wordpress, I’m definitely impressed with its speed, elegant structure, and feature set. That said, I find it much harder to break out of Wordpress’s intended purpose than I do with Movable Type.
I really fell in love with MT four or five years ago when I realized that the program just didn’t care what you did with it—you could tell it to create any system of pages with any combination of template tags you wanted. I still love creating sites from scratch with no reference to default templates—just throwing bits together like Legos into the formulation I need.
With Wordpress, one really depends upon using and modifying the existing structure with all its rules. For instance, trying to modify the default behavior of displaying text after the jump (“read more”) only on permalink pages was really annoyingly difficult.
That said, some of my discomfort with Wordpress may be due to the fact that I’m not a PHP programmer; it’s tough for me to read the logic on a page like post-template.php, let alone modify it effectively. In MT, the real code is tucked away in PERL folders, while I get a user-friendly tag system to play with. I can see how, for you, having the tags could be frustrating and unnecessary.
I would love to take a year or two off and just learn general computer science. Having real facility with code would be awfully nice.
NateMarch 21, 2008 at 8:19 am
Also: Yeah, Hulu’s actually really impressive. I’ve been catching up on King of the Hill, an obsession I thought was long-dead.