By Leon Poole on Mar 19, 2010
At last night’s Brisbane Web Design meetup, Carolyn King (@cazazz) mentioned how current versions of Dreamweaver don’t recognize the new HTML5 tags (ie, <header>, <article>, <aside>, <footer> etc.) and she asked if it’s possible to add support for it some how…
Here’s how:
Start Dreamweaver and go to Edit > Tag Library Editor
Click on the plus “+” icon and select New Tag Library
Give your new … Read more »
By Leon Poole on Feb 24, 2010
Brisbane Web Design is a meetup group that I’ve been involved with as assistant organiser and occasional speaker for just over 3 years, and somehow during the crazy December 2009 time of last year it occurred to me that I had never really spoken about the web design group in much detail here on the Creative World blog – so I began this … Read more »
By Leon Poole on Feb 15, 2010
The Brisbane Chinatown Mall was officially re-opened yesterday, Sunday 14th February 2010 just in time for the year of the Tiger with Lord Mayor of Brisbane Campbell Newman centre stage for the launch.
The highlight of the day was the unveiling of the mall’s new Carp statue by local Chinese artist Catherine Chui. The statue is a playful and dynamic design consisting of two primary … Read more »
By Leon Poole on Feb 11, 2010
For some time now Brisbane’s Chinatown Mall has been under going a major facelift. With only a few days until the mall is officially reopened I was lucky enough to be passing by to see some of the light sequences during testing on the new Street Gate entrance.
The Chinatown Mall officially opens this Sunday 14th February 2010 in sync with Chinese New Year Celebrations. … Read more »
By Leon Poole on Dec 07, 2009
Creative World is excited to announce that we’re joining in on the activeCollab Giveaway! It’s a great time of year to give and it also syncs nicely with the launch of our new Modern theme.
17 Dec 2009 This giveaway is now over! Congrats to all winners and thank you to ActiveCollab for putting on the Giveaway and allowing us to participate. … Read more »
By Leon Poole on Oct 23, 2009
Remember the excitement you had when you realised you could customise that little 16×16 icon next to your web address in the browser? (called a favicon) – Well today I’ve re-experienced that feeling with the discovery that we can customise the icon used when you add a bookmark to the homescreen on the iPhone or iPod Touch!
Adding a favicon to your website is simple, and … Read more »
By Leon Poole on Oct 13, 2009
Recently I listed to a great talk by Dan Willis from Sapient on how “Everything you know about web design is wrong”. Presented at a 2009 SXSWi, he talks about how web design is much more than just creating “pretty pictures”, and if designers are to be successful we need to try new things.
… what does design … Read more »
By Leon Poole on Oct 04, 2009
Recently at a Brisbane Web Design meetup I participated in an active discussion on CMS’s. It was a great night with people speaking for at least 5 different CMS’s! I was batting for WordPress which was no problem at all – I’m a huge fan!
I thought other people might enjoy knowing the benefits of using WordPress to run your website too, so I’ve posted … Read more »
By Leon Poole on Aug 06, 2009
After only 3 days of the Access 1.0 release we got a message from Brandon that we had completely missed stylings for the “Compare Versions” page in the Pages module – how embarrassing after all that beta testing!
In light of this, we decided to quickly edited the theme and release Access 1.1 to addresses this issue. Download the new Access 1.1 … Read more »