What Does A "Themer" do? What Is A "Themer"?

30 April 2008 - 12:33pm — Bevan

Have you ever wondered what a "themer" actually does? How are they different to a designer and a developer? In it's simplest sense a themere takes a flat static image, the design, provided by the designer, and a mostly-functional but ugly site, provided by a developer, and makes the ugly site look pretty like the designer wants it.

This timelapse by Matthew Buchanan of the theming of nzmusicmonth.co.nz sums up that process:read more

Humour: Flying and Microsoft

14 April 2008 - 10:21am — Bevan

A helicopter was flying around above Seattle when an electrical malfunction disabled all of the aircraft's electronic navigation and communications equipment.

Due to the clouds and haze, the pilot could not determine the helicopter's position. The pilot saw a tall building, flew toward it, circled, and held up a handwritten sign that said "WHERE AM I?" in large letters. People in the tall building quickly responded to the aircraft, drew a large sign, and held it in a building window. Their sign said "YOU ARE IN A HELICOPTER."

Still Wondering What Twitter Is?

8 April 2008 - 2:06pm — Bevan

Wonder know more. In 2.5 minutes you'll know:

Firefox 3 almost stable? And Mac Favicon Theme

5 April 2008 - 1:20pm — Bevan

I just got this email from Mozilla about the soon release of Firefox 3 release candidate, asking addon developers to get their extensions updated and released for FF3 RCs. If you have an extension released on addons.mozilla.org you would have received this email too. I have two variations of FF2's default Mac theme that enable favicons in the bookmarks toolbar: Mac Favicon and Mac Favicon XL.

Firefox 3 almost stable? And Mac Favicon Theme

5 April 2008 - 1:15pm — Bevan

I just got this email from Mozilla about the soon release of Firefox 3 release candidate, asking addon developers to get their extensions updated and released for FF3 RCs. If you have an extension released on addons.mozilla.org you would have received this email too. I have two variations of FF2's default Mac theme that enable favicons in the bookmarks toolbar: Mac Favicon and Mac Favicon XL.

Cheap Flights to DrupalAPC via NZ

31 March 2008 - 7:30am — Bevan

I don't like to advertise, but this might save someone $1000 USD:

If you've been thinking about coming to New Zealand from the US, now is the time to get tickets. Qantas has specials that have cut flight prices by about 50%.

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