http://tucson-labs.com Just another WordPress weblog Fri, 13 Jun 2008 12:16:19 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en I've been keeping busy with work and have been doing a lot of traveling (besides to work) in the past month, so I haven't made any posts in a while. Lately, my free time has been spent on another design for Tucson Labs. Here's a shot of the mock-up in ... http://tucson-labs.com/articles/long-time-no-post Right now there is a very popular trend on the web and in print media to use a pinsrtipe pattern for a background image. Today I'm going to go over how to create a pinstripe pattern in Inkscape and hopefully it will give you an idea of how to use ... http://tucson-labs.com/articles/patterns-with-inkscape My overall impression of Hardy Heron is that it didn't spend a long enough time in beta testing and was released too early. Way too early. Last I checked Firefox 3 was still in Beta, and to me this says a lot about the current release. I can't really go ... http://tucson-labs.com/uncategorized/ubuntu-804-released Having finished the splash page mockup in Inkscape a few days ago, I decided to put it up today. It's not really finished as you'll notice that the project and portfolio links in the sidebar aren't functioning yet. I also haven't made the necessary hard links for the images as ... http://tucson-labs.com/uncategorized/site-redesign-2 I've finished the splash page for the website redesign (well the design part anyway). I've been messing around with this for the last week in Inkscape, and I'm going to start coding later this week! It's a pretty big change for the look of the site, and how the content ... http://tucson-labs.com/uncategorized/splash-page-design I'm currently working on a redesign of the site. I've been really busy lately with my day job and working on the Congo Icon set, but I'm setting aside some time for a redesign because I was never really happy with how this last theme turned out. http://tucson-labs.com/uncategorized/site-redesign This was a fun, slightly odd festival centered around celebrating, well... http://tucson-labs.com/uncategorized/kawasaki-festival Inkscape 0.46 has finally been released. There are a lot of new features packed into this latest version. My favorite being that the tool palettes can now be docked, which is a huge improvement in the user interface in my opinion. There are a lot of other new additions to ... http://tucson-labs.com/uncategorized/inkscape-046 Most web design pros wouldn't even consider the possibility of doing their work without industry standard tools such as Adobe Photoshop, Illustrator, or Fireworks, let alone on a platform such as Linux. Nonetheless, professional results can be achieved. I'm not going to be using this site as an example, ... http://tucson-labs.com/articles/building-websites-with-open-source-software Don't let the build number scare you. While the latest version of Inkscape is only at build number 0.45.1, it's stable, feature rich, and above all else, it's a very powerful program for creating vector artwork. Another notable feature is that it's an open source program released under the GPL ... http://tucson-labs.com/articles/creating-websites-with-inkscape