2009
06.28

Displaying your posts on an external site doesn’t have to involve time-sapping programming. All wordpress and indeed most blogging sites come with RSS feeds as standard. Why not use these to display a summary of your recent posts on other sites just like the one on Absolute Advantage homepage

adding a blog summary to another site

In fact, if you really want to get the most out of your blog you should be using Feedburner anyway. Feedburner, now owned by Google offer a neat service called BuzzBoost. BuzzBoost republishes your burned feed’s content as HTML you can use on any other site. You can adjust the settings within the Feedburner account and create CSS classes to adjust the way it displays.

2009
06.24

Vector digital art work never ceases to impress me. As a web designer there doesn’t seem to be a lack of vector artwork to act as inspiration. This collection doesn’t have a particular theme but I have compiled a collection of what I would class as clean and visually stunning pieces of work. I just wish that I had the time and patience to create vector art like this.

Pepper Vector by `Artgerm
Woman vector art

What does vector actually mean? We can contrast it to raster artwork, which appears to be pixelated when enlarged. True vector artwork images can be scaled indefinitely without degrading.

2009
06.23

I was recently testing Magento Commerce on the Mac and went through an afternoon of headaches trying to get it to work on XAMPP.

Problem: When using XAMPP on mac os x the following message appears:

Internal Server Error

The server encountered an internal error or misconfiguration and was unable to complete your request.

Please contact the server administrator, you@example.com and inform them of the time the error occurred, and anything you might have done that may have caused the error.

More information about this error may be available in the server error log.