Ribbons Everywhere!

Wow! Do you know what’s all over the place right now? Yeah, that’s right. Ribbons! Well of course you realize I couldn’t be left behind in the growing trend of “Ribbons on the Internet” so I had to make one.

ribbon image

What? Yep, it’s that tiny. Yep, it’s a layered Photoshop file. Don’t like the texture? Go ahead and change it. Don’t like the colour? That’s cool. A moment with Hue/Saturation should make short work of adjusting to taste/scheme/whim. They’re all over the place! It’s trendy! Yeah, I likely made it ‘cause I’m going to use it on something! Aren’t I creative? Since I’m lazy and you’re quite possibly lazy, feel free to download it, use it, break it, stretch it. Do whatever you want with it, it’s my gift to you.

Download the .zip here: Ribbon.zip and remember, ribbons are usually for prized horses, trees and lapels. Zoom in to 3200% at your own peril.

Affiliate Buttons

Hey! I wasted some time so my loss is your gain! Do you like hastily drawn buttons with a blatant disregard for pixel-perfection? Do you like transparent png’s that may or may not fit into the colour scheme of your site and a small bit of messing with hue/saturation in Photoshop? Then step right up Bucko, today is your lucky day! Two, count ‘em, two tiny buttons for Amazon and iTunes. Small enough to put in your shirt pocket. Tiny but readable mind you and yours for the taking. As I say, my loss is your gain. My intent:

affiliate buttons

Oh, but the times they do change. Changed my width, changed my mind and the walls came tumbling down on these two tiny buttons. If you want to grab ‘em and put them to good use, be my guest. The typeface is Nevis by Ed Merritt so if you wanna add to the collection, that’s a good place to visit.

Download the buttons here: Affiliate Buttons and remember, be safe and have fun, don’t change your mind on a grid and zoom in to 3200% at your own peril.

Web Folder

I’ve updated my Web Folder Automator workflow to a different version. If you don’t know what that is, I’ll give you a little rundown:

What Web Folder Does

On launch, Web Folder creates a Folder named Web on your desktop. You should likely rename this to whatever the name of the project is you’re working on. Makes sense right? But wait, there’s more! Inside that folder you will find:

A folder labeled css containing:

  • One CSS file labeled reset.css containing, you guessed it, Eric Meyer’s Reset CSS.
  • One CSS file labeled style.css containing a bunch of starter styling of blockquotes, paragraphs, headings, links, etc. Delete or modify as required

A folder labeled javascript containing:

  • One Javascript file labeled jquery.js containing…right again! jQuery version 1.3.2. Minified for your comfort.
  • One Javascript file labeled unitpngfix.js which contains Unit Interactive’s PNG Fix to sort out that stupid IE6 problem with transparent png’s.

A folder labeled images containing:

  • The clear.gif file required to make unitpngfix.js work.

A folder labeled media which contains nothing

One HTML file containing a pantload of content for basic styling (that’s where style.css comes in), links in the head to the javascript files, links to the stylesheets and an xhtml strict doctype.

How to use

Yeah, download it, drag it to your Applications folder, double click it and there you have it. It is strictly an Automator action so it is easily updatable and expandable to suit your purpose. Just open Automator and select Web Folder as the Existing Workflow you want to edit, give it a quick once over and add stuff till your heart’s content.

All I can say is that it’s very useful to me and might be useful to you if you, you know, do web stuff.