The Lighthouse Keeper’s cat

Background

WordPress – as most other “Blog” applications – handles media (images and video) content as “Attachments”. You write a Post and you attach an image using ‘Add Media’. The system does all the magic, scales the image in 3 sizes, allows multiple images per post. You even can add those multiple images as a gallery to a post…

Criticism

The approach in its current form is not working for me as Writer, Blogger, Publisher. Images are Posts not Attachments. I want to post an Image, not a Post. An Image is as differnet to a Post as a Page is to a Post (‘WordPress universe’ wording). Images have specific particular features, in both back (administration) and front-end (themes) aspects. The ‘advanced’ user needs more control in templates and template tags.

I am an Information Architect not a coder (developer), but this is how I see it: In a OOP metaphor an Image is a Post with specific ‘extensions’. If I would define a Post as a Class, an Image would be a Post Sub-Class. It would inherit all template tags while adding a few pieces of magic.

The Image ‘content type’

This is what I imagine would be possible without reinventing the (WordPress-) wheel…

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Happy naked day! ^_^…
To know more about why styles are disabled on this website visit the Annual CSS Naked Day website for more information.

This a follow up of the post “Gridding the 960 using a 16px-based-ruler” about a month ago and is based on the recent discussions about using baselines or a basic leading for typography on websites.

In my last webdesign layouts I tried to establish a baseline not only for the typography, but for the hole page. I have chosen 20px for the basic leading. This may seem quite high, but with a font size of 12px the line height is 1,667em which suits the typeface, text and measure.
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Also via Print and Pattern I found LU prints – hand-printed artwork on kitchen linens, table linens and clothing. They have their online shop (a nice one) @ bigcartel. I took a closer look at the application and I think it is a nice shopping system, created for Bands & Record Labels, Clothing Companies, Crafters & Artists and an alternative to shopify. Striped from useless features you will find a plain, simple, easy to use shopping system.
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Yesterday I tested a feed on iTunes for a VodCasting project of a friend of mine and something really strange happened: Everything was fine, but after the video was downloaded iTunes didn`t play it, giving an error “file not compatible, or corrupted”. Since I tested the file offline I knew that the file was just fine! It took me quite a while till I found out what was wrong:
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Whenever i try to design something for myself i just don`t get it right and nothing is good enough. So when i finally came up with a solution for the design for “The Lighthouse Keepers Cat” that was a weight off my mind and i think a relief for The Viech also, because the night before i was sitting in front of my computer crying that i can`t design anything and that i am the world biggest looser…
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There is an update to this post: “Gridding the 960 using a 20px-based-ruler and a 20px baseline”. Sometimes you even have to change your dearest beliefs ^_^!

A few days ago i did study “The Elements of Typographic Style Applied to the Web – a practical guide to web typography” and i was again amazed how good this article is. I talked with The Viech about it. So today he send me another article about “Setting Type on the Web to a Baseline Grid” by a list apart .
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