Ben Davis is a freelance web developer based in Derby who loves creating beautiful, content-driven websites. He uses only open source products to power his creations to show that with just a little imagination, endless curiosity and a healthy dose of caffeine anything is possible.
I’ve recently (just now in fact) been made aware of an adobe Photoshop plugin for wordpress theme creation straight from a psd design.
Looking through the Divine Project website and reading more about it seems to uncover a few pertinant points.
The site itself answers my initial question in its F.A.Q
What is Divine plug-in?
Divine is the program developed for those who know a bit about Photoshop and sites creation but don’t want to waste their time making up a valid website on basis of popular CMS manually. Using this program you are able to easily make up a professional website and upload it promptly to the server through the embedded FTP-client.
Waste time making a valid website? Are they insinuating that valid code is unimportant? Can’t say I agree with that if that is what they mean. The plugin goes so far as to manage the entire themes’ upload and management as well.
New Biffy single, presumably last one now before Only Revolutions is released – cannot wait!
Until then, enjoy “Cloud of Stink”: good and heavy like Biffy should be, and the rest of Zane low’s set last night. I have to say Simon’s voice is a little weird at the beginning of the track but it’s only a minor annoyance really.
Last night / this morning I finally moved host over to MyFireHost. My previous provider was so slow and subject to so many problems with mysql that I just couldn’t take anymore! I finally finished moving everything over this morning and have activated my work in progress new design. It’s not quite finished yet but it should give you some idea of where I am going with it.
Autumn is the best time of year!
I’m also starting a little project with my brother; the fruits of which should be a slew of new and sexy wordpress themes.
While I’m putting together my final review of Moon OS I thought I’d talk a little about a plugin I use a lot these days. Xmarks started initially as foxmarks, a Firefox plugin for backing up your bookmarks and actually syncing them each time you add/remove links. Adding a plugin to firefox is such an easy and, importantly, quick procedure that it meant you could share your bookmarks between two places effortlessly.
That functionality continues today with Xmarks but has been improved and expanded to include other browsers.
Listen to the new single courtesy of Zane Lowe at the BBC:
Zane Lowe hottest record
Some fantastic singles coming out of the new album available on the 9th of November, a return to form I think. In all honesty, I prefer Mountains and Golden Rule to this one but any BIffy is good Biffy. Can’t wait to get hold of the album!
Well, after a little shuffling and sorting I decided to install Kubuntu Karmic Koala Alpha 5 on a spare partition on one of my hard drives. It recently became spare when I erased its former occupant: Windows 7. It was just taking up space…
After a bit of a lagging installation I find myself, having just clicked the “don’t restart” yet button, wanting to show off a feature I found completely by accident. A now included Plasma Widget for Facebook pictured below and the nano blog widget.
Well, it’s nearly that time of year again when Ubuntu next version is released. A few funky things are in the works and now the last Alpha release 5 is here the majority of changes have now been set for 9.10. One thing that has been added in the 5th alpha is GNOME 2.27.91, in addition to a complete rewrite of GDM, this release should mark some cool changes.
As you may have guessed from the title of the post – I’m currently upgrading to Karmic – so when it’s finished I will be able to fill you in some more.
Should also have some kubuntu information to empart as well as I’ve been using KDE 4.3 for the last week or so… and it does have some very nice features – the desktop widgets are a favourite of mine and something which is missing from the gnome desktop; certainly such ease of deployment is missing anyway. It is still buggy, I think most of my kde programs have crashed at some point this week, specifically the package management apps. I really think this is something the Kubuntu team need to work on for Karmic; the Gnome Desktop alternatives: Add and Remove and synaptic especially form a combination that’s hard to beat.
Anyway, more to come as I tinker over the next few days. I can’t help but get the Alpha releases; me, wait a whole six months for Ubuntu goodies? I don’t think so!
Always a sucker for a carefully thought out, well explained article on my favourite subject – Linux – I was pleased as punch to find this blog through a post from mesanna.
Quite frankly this man should be knighted, and really not just for championing Linux but by showing how much good can come 3 things: education, charity and understanding.
Please take the time to read the whole article, this man has done so much good for so many people.
On a separate note the comments really demonstrate how much support this man has. The one attacking comment only succeeds in highlighting the posters ignorance; Helios does not come across as superior – he has every right to – but he does not.
Okay, I’ve spent the best part of the last 48 hours coding/designing constantly. Looking around the flat just seems weird to me now, nothing looks as it should. It’s similar to the effect you get while walking out of the cinema after watching something like Knowing (longest feeling film I’ve ever seen I swear..)
But moving on from that peculiarity my coding stint means that I’ve not only nearly finished my own wordpress theme (I know… I have one, but take the time to look at the code that powers it and you’ll see why I don’t count it as a real one) but, more importantly, I’ll be finishing the website for Nico’s Restaurant: a great little place near to where I work. Who knows, when it’s online maybe I’ll put a link up to it :p
Anyway, that’s really all for now: you may have noticed I said nearly finished..
Bye for now.
P.S I forgot to say, the wallpapers I made ages ago are now available to download in the artwork section. Back to work and some more Radiohead to help me along I think.
Ben Davis is a freelance web developer based in Derby who loves creating beautiful, content-driven websites. He uses only open source products to power his creations to show that with just a little imagination, endless curiosity and a healthy dose of caffeine anything is possible.