ThinkSimple Now's Jesse Hines' suggestions to bring clarity and efficiency to your writing are excellent. The 8 keys near the bottom of the entry are a great reminder to anyone who blogs, writes copy, or does the occasional article. I need constant reminders of these principles when doing blog entries, but especially if I have to do web site copy. Good stuff.
Hidden Pixels recently rounded up the available CSS frameworks into a list. I happen to be evaluating CSS frameworks as well to find a flexible system to provide on a CMS I'm working on. The Hidden Pixels list isn't very descriptive of the specific usage or value each framework has to offer, so I've provided a summary of each to make this a useful reference when evaluating the list.
web without sense is brilliant.
I just discovered you can use prepolate module to select a contact catetgory in a Drupal contact form.
For instance, if you have 3 categories for your contact form and want to pass an url to pre-select category 3, just pass ?edit[cid]=3 in your link, e.g. http://yourdomain.com/contact?edit[cid]=3.
Nice.
emastic is an interesting looking CSS Framework that is designed for both fixed and fluid layout. It looks like a nice alternative to fluid layouts than YUI Grids, with simpler and more flexible column structuring and class naming.
* Lightweight (compressed weight less then 4kb)
* Personalized width of the page in (em,px,%)
* Use of fixed and fluid columns in the grid.
* Elastic Layout with "em"s
Blueprint is going to have to catch up and produce a version for fluid layouts.
This is the Ciak Journal, made in Florence, Italy. It's covered in a luxurious leather that's notched on the center of the covers to hold the elastic rope in place. So nice to hold.
"This is Ciak, the handy and versatile notebook, soft and coloured, which comes into everybody's lives and pockets. It is easily recognised thanks to its exclusive and surprising closure, which confers character on the simplicity of its white pages.
A black elastic band which opens and closes to release or protect your most hidden thoughts, and which embraces everything important that has been written. Essential and without fringes, Ciak is ready to be customised, filled and characterised by intimate and personal words, sketches and emotions."
I just got my hands on one of these. Beautiful and much slimmer than a Moleskine.
"Covered with "Made in the USA" latex infused paper, our very durable journals can really take a "beating". Perfect size with hidden inside pouch and elastic closure. 128 blank acid-free pages. 6 assorted colors."
Nike celebrates 20 years of encouraging athletes to Just Do It with this fantastic ad.
Knowledge@Wharton interviews Sunil Bharti Mittal, who started in business more than 30 years ago with $1,500 borrowed to make bicycle crankshafts. Today, he heads the $5 billion Bharti Group, whose flagship company, Bharti Airtel, is India's largest mobile phone operator. Mittal spoke on lessons learned from his experience, including the emphasis on speed as a strategy.
If you're caught between speed and perfection, always choose speed, and perfection will follow. You never wait for perfect positioning, because in business you don't have the time; especially if you're small, you can't do it.
Thanks to AK for the link.