Recent Links: August 17 to August 24

If there’s one type of headline that gets attention—it’s about claiming the death of something. Well, I’d like to proclaim the “un-dead” nature of a format which I think has the potential to become something more powerful than we are currently seeing today. The Micro-site first became adopted by the marketing community as a tool of convenience. It simply became too unwieldy to continue adding sections to our large company/product Websites every time we wanted to promote a new product, feature or service. And specifically for advertisers—well, they needed an online extension for their campaigns to live in the digital space.

“As part of a recent management summit at my company, we were asked to fill out an RMPT matrix for our departments (I head up Product Design). An RMPT matrix consists of (R)esponsibilities, (M)etrics, (P)rocesses, and (T)ools. I have been intending to develop better metrics for both measuring and guiding our design efforts, and this exercise served as a catalyst to get me started. “

WP Developer Assistant is the first WordPress plugin of its kind. It essentially is a toolkit that makes life as a WordPress developer easier.

An exploration of scale and levels of detail. How much or little is contained within the tiniest, most ordinary of moments.

Test your URL on practically any platform, browser, screen resolution, JavaScript / Java / Flash enabled or disabled… returned to you from a server farm as screen shots while you wait!

Sure, it saves time, it saves money but better than that is what becomes actually practical in terms of quality management.

A survey of techniques for creating infographics and visualizations from textual data.

A starter theme for WordPress to make the creation of a new theme as easy as possible. Some of the features include:
* Blank style.css with theme name, author, URL, etc. tags at the top
* Content-ready 404, archive, search, index, single post, and page files
* Full, working comments.php file
* Complete header.php set up with links to RSS, a stylesheet, and JS file;

“M2 is a ground-up rewrite of Ma.gnolia, re-creating features we love today, taking a second run at what didn’t worked as well as planned, on a distributed, service-based architecture designed to handle the large volumes of data we’ve seen. But even more significant, M2 will be an open source project that can be downloaded to remix and run as your own.”

“A typeface is not a font. A font is not a typeface. It’s been said before, but confusion still resigns supreme; even the Online Etmology Dictionary and the holders of the rights to Georgia get it wrong. So, at the risk of stating the obvious, but in the hope that someone might find this useful, I’m going to attempt a little disambiguation.”