This is the world’s first embeddable album according to coolhunting.com. I think that this is absolutely amazing. This is going to change everything! And yes, I feel very confident about that. Why is this album embeddable and amazing? It was made possible with full HTML5 development and is playable on the iPad, iOS4, and basically any web browser on any computer or capable mobile device. Thank muxtape.com founder Justin Ouellette. And for those who are already familiar with Muxtape, you might be pleased to know that this is the direction in which the site will be going.
For example, you can embed an album on your website. The player below is HTML5 version, but for you Flash loyalists there is a Flash version too. But why bother, the HTML5 version can be viewed on anything!
Go ahead and pick one of the songs below to play.
This is incredibly exciting!!
Coming back to the iPhone and iPad, when you open up the album in Safari for this album above at itllbebetter.com and choose the song you want to play, you can actually close Safari and the music will continue to play. You can also download the album from iTunes from the website.
I am very impressed and very excited about what HTML5 brings to the table through all of these talented web developers for my geeky satisfaction. lol Alright enough gushing.
If you’ve been wanting to give your self-hosted wordpress blog a more fully owned customized appeal, then I’m sure it will help by getting rid of that silly WordPress logo on your login page.
Here’s how!
All you need is a custom logo of your own, add just text or do both like I did in the image above.
- Step 1: Create an image in Adobe Photoshop with the following dimensions: 310px by 70px.
- Step 2: Export it as a .gif and name it “logo-login.gif”
- Step 3: Use an ftp client or however you access your files in your hosting account and upload the image to the “images” folder. Location path: wp-admin>images
- Step 4: Finally, go to your login page (www.yourdomain.com/wp-admin) or refresh your browser if you’re already there. Voila! Custom login page.
You’re welcome!
P.S. While I’d love to brag that I made this discovery on my own, I must give credit where credit is due to the ever so wonderful WordPress developers at pagelines.com.
Add’em on Twitter!: @pagelines
Categories: Web Design, Wordpress Tags: adam munns, andrew powers, anna german, login, login page, logo, photoshop, replace, time ludi, Wordpress
Basekit.com is not a new site, but it has received renewed attention in addition to it’s 20,000 registered users. It’s been launched in the US and UK due to a recent $2.6 million dollars of VC funding from Eden Ventures and NESTA.
The whole premise is that coding is time consuming, costly and prone to immense error (Hello, W3C) when it comes down to developers that need a site quickly and easily. In so many words, BaseKit has stated that they are filling a market hole that provides ready-to-use features for web building. Think SquareSpace, but not–which is of a similar purpose: get a site up and running for your needs lickity split. The difference between the two is that SquareSpace has ready-to-edit templates for one to build and modify. BaseKit allows uploading your own Adobe Photoshop site design, although technically SquareSpace can do something similar, but through a blank slate template offered on their site. Nevertheless, both provide the user with the means to customize and edit almost every component of the site.
BaseKit was originally set-up by web design entrepreneurs Simon Best, Richard Best and Richard Healy in 2008 after realising that the technical design of websites could be improved if processes were streamlined. By reducing iterative development tasks through a common, fully hosted framework, BaseKit is able to create websites faster and make them easier to manage.
Here is what you can do with BaseKit:
- Draft Sites as well as Active Sites
- Your own, individual template (via Adobe Photoshop – PSD)
- One change, unlimited instances
- Limitless design and layout (site width and column layout)
- CSS customizable dynamic widgets (layout widgets, content widgets and form widgets)
- Preview and make quick changes
- Built in CSS editing
- Instant preview
- No set-up or download required
- See changes in real-time
- Easy hosting
- Edit in your own browser
- Coding free (for photo and video uploads, adding twitter and RSS feeds)
- Customizable forms
- Easily redesign template with little hassle
- Drag and drop
- Manage your own forms data
- And most importantly it’s all W3C compliant
As a person who in recent years studied web design at the Art Institute only to find that coding is for super geniuses who literally enjoy thinking in code 24/7, this may in fact be the answer to a lot of people’s prayers. Furthermore, I think the appeal for BaseKit is the option to just be a designer for all the Photoshop lovers without having to get bogged down in coding it all correctly by web standards. So I think BaseKit attracts developers in a rush as opposed to a novice to web design. SquareSpace may be a better option regarding the latter. …Just my opinion.
Categories: Design, Graphic Design, News, Tech, Web Apps, Web Design Tags: adobe photoshop, basekit, basekit.com, coding, eden ventures, HTML, NESTA, squarespace, Web Design
I recently spoke to the designer and owner of markjardine.com, about his site and how much I love the design. It’s just a basic tumblr.com blog, but it so well done. So I asked him if I could get a custom version of it at a cost. I was denied, but I still like the website and thought I’d share Mark’s work here. You can also see the great work from his company tapbots.com, which has developed some really awesome looking and apps that provide great service–among which I think PasteBot is the coolest (a cut & paste iPhone application).
