Memos from March 2013

Selecting Typography Using OS X’ Preview

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I set out to using free, open-source web fonts for a par­tic­u­lar project late­ly. I’ve had book­marked some arti­cles a while back with some pret­ty cool com­bi­na­tions that will help the Design process move a long a bit faster. To name a few:

In those arti­cles where screen­shots of sam­ple com­bi­na­tions. I just saved them to my local dri­ve for com­par­i­son. If you don’t have Adobe Light­room (for its Sur­vey or Com­pare views) or Adobe Bridge (for its Thumb­nail view) but are on OS X, you can use Pre­view to com­pare the stills.

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Color Grading Film with VSCO Film

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Tuto­r­i­al on col­or grad­ing film with VSCO Film, by Moet­ic Films. This one is using Aper­ture & Final Cut Pro X, but the con­cept should be gen­er­al on whichev­er tools you use.

There are more edit­ing tech­niques and work­flow help via VSCO Film’s sup­port pages locat­ed here.

Source: Moet­ic Films

Responsive Web Design Process

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As I’ve said recent­ly, there has been a surge of #RWD­process insights.

Just an overview, as I was review­ing my notes from years ago, led me to the same con­cepts that was shared by the web com­mu­ni­ty. Here’s some visu­als from Pon Kat­tera…

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Increase File Upload Size Limit

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I am work­ing on a project that requires high-lev­el users to be able to upload more than the default Word­Press file-upload lim­it. I’ve done this in the past but I have set it to a mul­ti-domain set­ting. Mean­ing that it encom­pass­es all of my domains being host­ed in a par­tic­u­lar Dreamhost user account.

I want­ed to only increase the file size (again) to some­thing much larg­er than I’ve had before but only for a par­tic­u­lar sub­do­main; as I was using it for stag­ing. Here’s the process that I took to make that hap­pen.1

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  1. These steps are a para­phrase from Dreamhost’s Wiki arti­cle. [↩]