Aug. 19th, 2007
A frustrating 3 hours with PhotoShop
Aug. 19th, 2007 09:11 pmI just spent 3 hours with PhotoShop trying to make a single damn button for a web page. The first hour or so was spent trying to remember how to use PhotoShop, which I guess I haven’t used in over 10 years. What saved me was C coming to my rescue and brainstorming (she was the brain, I was the storm) about how to use it. I can’t believe how it hasn’t improved once inch since the 1980s!
This piece of crap software is what the entire universe still uses? This fucked up, icons from hell, anti-usable piece of shit is paying Adobe’s bills?
Isn’t there anything out that for the Mac that does LAYERS and has a user interface designed in this decade?
FUCK!
This piece of crap software is what the entire universe still uses? This fucked up, icons from hell, anti-usable piece of shit is paying Adobe’s bills?
Isn’t there anything out that for the Mac that does LAYERS and has a user interface designed in this decade?
FUCK!
WordPress is amazing
Aug. 19th, 2007 09:15 pmPreviously I asked if I should use WordPress or MovableType. Many people said I should select WordPress.
I didn’t want to bias the comments, so I didn’t tell people that the site I was setting up was already a WordPress site, but I had stopped in December 2005 because I got busy with other projects. At the time I found WP to be painful to use. However, I figured that it must have gotten better over the years.
My hosting provider upgraded to the latest WP release and some things broke, but I was able to fix them. However, I wasn’t getting all the amazing new features that everyone was talking about. After a few hours of debugging I finally realized that the upgrade process doesn’t overwrite many files (better safe that sorry). Once I manually overwrote those files, I got all the amazing drag-and-drop stuff, widgets, and other cool features that I had been told about.
I’m very impressed.
Now I just need a widget that lets me include raw HTML so that I can hack around the fact that I can’t find Widgets that do certain things. (that would let me avoid editing the header.php or index.php files). Anyone know of such a plug-in or widget?
I didn’t want to bias the comments, so I didn’t tell people that the site I was setting up was already a WordPress site, but I had stopped in December 2005 because I got busy with other projects. At the time I found WP to be painful to use. However, I figured that it must have gotten better over the years.
My hosting provider upgraded to the latest WP release and some things broke, but I was able to fix them. However, I wasn’t getting all the amazing new features that everyone was talking about. After a few hours of debugging I finally realized that the upgrade process doesn’t overwrite many files (better safe that sorry). Once I manually overwrote those files, I got all the amazing drag-and-drop stuff, widgets, and other cool features that I had been told about.
I’m very impressed.
Now I just need a widget that lets me include raw HTML so that I can hack around the fact that I can’t find Widgets that do certain things. (that would let me avoid editing the header.php or index.php files). Anyone know of such a plug-in or widget?