Okay, so who there hates a million different web-browser windows cluttering up their desktop? Certainly not me, that is why I found a great workflow based on a trick I learned in a Screencasts Online video. It starts by noticing that under the “Window” menu there is an option for “Merge All Windows” this option turns all the browser windows into one big window with many little tabs. This is option great but the problem still remains that if you are on a 20” monitor or dual screen setup it can be a hassle to go up to the top of the main screen and click this little option every-time so how about a time saving shortcut?

Setup

It’s very easy to create this small shortcut. Just go to the System Preferences (the icon with all the gears), click “Keyboard and Mouse”, then click the tab “Keyboard Shortcuts”. Next click on the plus symbol under the shortcut list, and a dialog box should appear. Chose “Other...” (the very bottom option on the list) an open dialog box appears go to your “Applications” folder, find Safari and than click add. Next under “Menu Title” enter “Merge All Windows” (it must be typed exactly that way for for this trick to work) than for the Keyboard Shortcut type any combination of key (like mine is command + option + m) and presto your shortcut should appear next to “Merge All Windows” under the “Window” menu. Now the next time you want to merge your window you have a simple keyboard shortcut that should save you loads of time and space.

Once again davidholbrook.info is back into the W3C valid world, and looking better than ever. This is thanks to some my great CSS skills and one awesome find. The awesome find is a piece of javascript called DD_roundies, this script allows me to keep my “non-imaged” round boxes without it invalidating my code (in the past I was forced into an Firefox and Safari hack). I hope you enjoy my new design and if you have concerns or problems feel free to email me.

Ever since Wordpress came out I have always wondered why there are so many different CMS’s out there? Well, if you have ever tried to mold an exsisting website in to Wordpress you will understand with me why the are more than one out there, Wordpress is just not that flexable. Many developer’s have tried to fix this problems by making the “content hooks” easier to work with by doing things like making the editable div tag a class with a certain name in it, or creating simple %pathto('content')% tags. While these are okay and a little easier for “code-phobic” designers to work with, they still requires you to fix the code on the actual page.

Welcome to PureEdit.

PureEdit is an innovative CMS that only touches your MySQL and that’s it. Using tables and field tags (such as "body_txt") it will read the abbrivation of the field suffix and will create an form in it’s backend for say a client to use while again remaining it’s “hands-off” self. Very useful I think, how about swinging by pureedit.com and giving it a try?

Lately I have been thinking that this layout looked very hidious and ugly to me so I decided it was time for some change. So what do you think?

My life has been very busy lately but here are some planed improvements

• I will try to redesign mythoughts (this blog) by November or December of this year (2008)
• I will get techfrodum.com going by fall 2009
• A new, fresh, portfolio section