It’s been a crazy past few weeks. I meant to write about this sooner, but haven’t found the time.
The site not only looks a thousand times better (Bryce!) but the slick new navigation (Mark and Robert!) and the awesome content (Amy!) make this something I’m really proud to have worked on.
Here’s some of my personal favorite things we’ve added:
Consistent Left-hand Navigation – We now have highlighting of the current page you’re on (the little red arrow) and a nestled view of sub-pages. This looks much cleaner and is also a lot easier to navigate.
On the content creation side our users now have a clear understanding of how their site is organized and how to manage their content.
More space (wider layout)
We increased the width of the site by 25% giving us more space for content. Video can now be embedded at full SD resolution and pictures can now be much larger to boot. Along with a consistent placement of our navigation we no longer have to munge content around the right-hand navigation found in the previous design.
Flexible framework – We can nowdevelop new interactive elements
We’re already starting to add new ‘widgets’ to the content of our page. Things like what you see in the screenshot above. News tickers, embedded video carousels, instant response polls, you name it. All due to the new framework we’re using to display our content.
We’re not done adding additional features; like a new search engine, custom departmental banners and a mobile stylesheet!
Thanks again to everyone involved and for those who let me be a part of it. It feels good to be proud of one’s work.
I saw this message earlier today after trying to get Tweetie to work on my home Mac. I was able to setup multiple accounts with ease at work, but for the life of me could not figure out why I was getting this error message. I tried retyping my account details multiple times, each time making sure to type my password as slowly and precisely as possible.
After an apropos search on Twitter about the error I came across this tweet.
rbieber: @frumpa thats odd. This time I entered the password first (where focus defaults) and then username and authenticated fine. Bug?
A quick test confirmed that the order in which you enter your credentials for secondary accounts is a bug. It appears you need to enter your password first and then your username.
If this doesn’t make any sense, see the video below.
I should mention despite this small bug I’m enjoying Tweetie very much and am sure the developers will remedy this. Most likely right after I hit the Publish button.
Update: Well pretty close, atebits updated Tweetie today to 1.0.2, which fixes this problem.
At first I thought the weekly dump of my tweets would be something useful and interesting. Not only to myself, but to anyone who stumbles across this site. (Hi Mom!)
After having it up and automagically posting for a month, it looks ugly and has no real value. If you want to follow my small bursts of wit and random links, follow me on twitter.
Side note; The Weekly Updates are the most trafficked articles on the site. I have no idea why.
CS4 brings back the joy of the default ‘Show all Menu Items”. As I’ve previously written when CS3 came out, there is a way to manually modify the Edit>Menu options to enable all menu items to be displayed. It’s kinda lame that they enable this by default and offer no simple one-click solution to show all menu items.
I’m happy to report that my custom menu file works in CS4 just as well. Just double-click the Everything_on.mnu file and Photoshop will launch, putting the settings into place.*
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As to why Adobe has this default probably goes into issues designing the interface of a complex application. By hiding what they believe to be the least used items, it makes things appear simpler.
However, as a professional application I find this to be a bit oxymoronish. Why not prompt the user on first run with a simple series of questions.
What do you plan on doing with Photoshop?
I’m new here, just the basics
Oh, you know, family photos, work on my personal site
I’m a web guy, I usually start from scratch
I’m a professional pixel wrangler, show me everything
Ok, while that’s by no means an ideal set of default options I hope you get the gist of what I’m trying to say.
Ask the user, don’t make assumptions and then make it possible to easily show all menu items.
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*With my limited testing this didn’t effect palettes or keyboard shortcuts, but YMMV.
