Archive of July 2009
Carsonified » Web Design is a Journey
While the new Casonified site is one that I fell in love with immediately it is also one that I don't think could have ever been created anywhere I've been previously employed. Mike Kus outlines the story of revision after revision, not being satisfied, not letting things move forward until satisfied, not settling. Often times design work is pushed along, when something is deemed acceptable the creative process is over, no thought is put into what could have been given just one more week or in this case, one more evening...Amazon's acquisition of Zappos.com really excites me. I hope more and more businesses realize what that company is doing and why it works.
Hire a ton of people rapidly and a “strangers at a cocktail party” problem is exactly what you end up with. There are always new faces around so everyone is unfailingly polite. Everyone tries to avoid any conflict or drama. No one says, “This idea sucks.” People appease instead of challenge.
Last.fm Top Artists + Chyrp
Firstly, this was originally done by Joe Laz for Tumblr, you can find that post here.
This is a variation of his Yahoo Pipe along with some instructions on getting it working with Chyrp.
Requirements
- Aggregator plugin installed.
- Yahoo Pipes Rss Feed
- Enable "link" feather
Setup
- Once you run the pipe, an rss feed link will be made available, this is what you'll give the Aggregator plugin under your "Manage" tab. (If you don't see the ability to add a feed, make sure your user group has permission to do this, this is available in "Manage -> Groups")
- You'll be importing this feed as a "link" feather and the post attributes are listed below.
- You're done!
name: "feed[title]" source: "feed[link]" description: "feed[description]"
Update:
(9/9/09) The Yahoo Pipe has been updated and now works correctly with Chyrp's Aggregator module!
Because of the way the aggregator works and because of the way yahoo pipes works, you're going to get duplicates, to prevent this, in aggregator.php replace the "main_index" method with the following. This will check if the post's title already exists as a post and wont create a duplicate.
Web designers want more options, they want more fonts. sIFR, Cufón, and numerous other replacement techniques permit web designers to go beyond the so-called web-safe palette of fonts. However, all those techniques are, fundamentally, hacks. Moreover, their practical use is limited to headlines, or short bursts of text.
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