archive/ 2009 April

Bookmarks for April 27th through April 28th

In order to share what I’ve found to be useful/interesting/etc. while browsing around below are my links for April 27th through April 28th. You can find my full set of bookmarks at my Delicious account.

Why Doesn’t The Stimulus Include Money For Painting Roofs And Roads White? – Painting 100 sq feet of roof space white [...]

The ideal Wordpress CMS

A little less than a week ago some of us sat down together to talk about what features we’d like to see incorporated into Wordpress to make it a more powerful CMS for news organizations. The resulting conversation was posted on the Inside CoPress blog and Daniel’s written up a nice summary there too.
After talking [...]

Introducing News Evolved

This post originally was posted on the News Evolved Blog. Check it out!
The story behind it
News Evolved is my first attempt at a Wordpress theme. It stemmed from working for the Whitman Pioneer as Web Manager during the Spring of 2009. During this time I realized that there wasn’t really a theme for Wordpress that [...]

Time for some web design collaboration

Earlier this week I talked with Daniel Bachhuber of CoPress about forming a group this summer for the college news organizations that will be redesigning their online presences. Daniel wrote up a quick summary and posted the audio from the call over on the Inside CoPress blog.
Since talking with Daniel I’ve done some more thinking [...]

I know, another new theme

If you’ve visited the blog at any point today you’ve probably noticed that there’s yet another new look. Trust that it will all be apparent by Monday and that it’s all a part of some significant work that I’ve been doing lately. Stay tuned!