http://open-media.nl/marten webdesign with open standards and open source Wed, 25 Mar 2009 16:00:48 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Well, it finally happened; my Harddisk crashed. It just decided to quit on me without leaving a trace whatsoever. Sure, I  have backups, but not everything, and I didn't have Leopard installed so I didn't get to use the time-warp application. So, now I got a new harddisk installed for ... http://open-media.nl/marten/macbook-troubles/ Yes, it's a new year with new opportunities! This year one of my goals is to blog a bit more, update this theme finally and write/post more plugins for you to download here (and at the atypisch website). http://open-media.nl/marten/2009/ ... and feel free to tell me what you think. It's a concerts/events plugin for Wordpress, fully functional but still not with all the options I'd like though. Also feel free to add functions of your own. You can download it here: http://www.atypisch.nl/downloads/ cheers, Marten http://open-media.nl/marten/download-this-plugin/ First of all, I'm not sure why exactly Wordpress decided to change their database structure so that tags and categories are seen as one and the same database items (with some distinctions). I do know that it's caused a great deal of stress with existing Wordpress users trying to upgrade ... http://open-media.nl/marten/gengo-meta-image-plugin-and-wordpress/ I've been spending days to write a plugin that keeps track of the concerts for my bands we vs death and shuriken, but now there seems to be an almost exact plugin for it called Gigpress which looks pretty good actually. Go check it out! I'll keep on finishing my ... http://open-media.nl/marten/just-my-luck/ I know I promised to extend my theme a bit, but I'm afraid I am a bit busy at the moment. Besides working on a new version for Simuze I'm also (re)writing a few plugins for Wordpress and working on a program that'll take care of my administration. I started ... http://open-media.nl/marten/writing-plugins/ Pooljaar.nl is a website that tracks the adventures of polar expeditions for the next two years. The expedition members each maintain their own weblog with text, movies and audio, which come together at the main website. Atypisch created the CSS and adjusted the Wordpress themes. website: www.pooljaar.nl http://open-media.nl/marten/pooljaar/ VPRO villalive magazine is a weblog from VPRO's villalive.nl. Villa live is the recent replacement for the well known "Villa Achterwerk". The website is meant to give updates and interactivity to the show on TV. Atypisch created the CSS + xhtml and wordpress theme from the delivered design. website: weblogs.vpro.nl/villalive http://open-media.nl/marten/vpro-villalive-magazine-weblogs/ Ecoboot is a site about living and working on water in the future. It seeks the possibilities for a future in which one is independent of fossil fuels and prepared for a rise of the sea level. The weblog runs for several years and was in great need of a ... http://open-media.nl/marten/ecoboot/ Rosa creates music and music theatre in a small electro/acoustic formation from Utrecht, Netherlands. The ensemble is inspired by literature, techno, visual arts, traditional and experimental, classical and popular music. They needed a new look and feel, but were also attached to their original style, logo and colors (which had ... http://open-media.nl/marten/rosa-ensemble/