One of the great things about Wordpress is the vibrant community and projects that grow to support it. Theme frameworks come in a variety of forms, from simple starting points for a custom theme, to full theme solutions with many bells and whistles. Read the rest of this entry »

A few days removed from WebVisions 2009 I sit here and ponder what stood out at the conference. Words like: Affordance, User-Experience, Interface Engineering, Social Capital, ROI and AJAX (ok, I know the last two are abbreviations not words) were spoken in many of the talks, however the industry vocabulary is not what stood out to me. Read the rest of this entry »

Do you know what pseudo classes in CSS are? I did not until a couple of years ago, even though I have been using them for close to a decade. According to the W3C, pseudo elements are:

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A couple of CSS frameworks have been on my to-do list for a few months and I finally got the right project to test one out on. A quick 3 page site (which has already grown to 5 pages) that had no pixel perfect requirements gave me the motivation to explore Blueprint CSS.

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Perian is a wonderful little utility for anyone doing Flash development. The reason it’s so handy is because it allows you to view FLV files directly in the Quicktime Player.

And that is not all: This open source component also allows the playback of AVI, MS-MPEG4 v1 & v2, DivX, 3ivX, H.264, FLV1, FSV1, VP6, H263I, VP3, HuffYUV, FFVHuff, MPEG1 & MPEG2 Video, Fraps and more!

Still plugging away on the new site and processing all the feedback I have gotten. For an update on the latest improvements, and for the reason behind the portfolio section, read on! Read the rest of this entry »

Welcome to the new look of RGB Design Studio. I am happy to launch the third version of this site – new and improved, of course. The new site is running on Wordpress, incorporating a design that I made.
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