Category Archives: Full Roast

Full roast is your maximum dose of Diary of a website with the focus on design and the web.

Beta reset: into wordpress 3.0

Today Diary of a website got a refresh with the update to WordPress 3.0 beta 2. I’ve also thrown out everything in this rather radical spring clean as far as theme and layout goes. I’ve kept the posts and that’s about it as I have wanted for a while to have a change in the format – so taking this chance to give myself a push.

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Design by caffeine and music

I’ve been thinking a lot about what gets me in the ‘creativity zone’ lately as I prepare for a person project that is going to require a lot of this type of focus. I think we all probably have our essential requirements small or large for getting into that place where everything can flow and I am no exception.

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An open letter to those working on the new WordPress theme

To whomever it concerns, Let me start this not with a negative but with a positive. I love what you’re trying to do with the new WordPress default theme. New stuff is always good and whilst I may not agree with some design decisions I recognise how hard it is to please all of us grumpy WordPress peeps all the time. That being said I have just one thing I think you need to consider and to sum it up I just have to say… will someone please think of the children.

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