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Umbraco Theme - Green

If you’re not aware by now there is a open source asp.net proper CMS available called umbraco - http://umbraco.org/ . It is proper in the fact that you can create any type of page, you’re not restricted to just blog posts or static pages like every cms ive tried so far. It is as fully dynamic as you can make it. The difference is that it uses xslt to read from an outputed xml file, rather than having to know complex php and mysql calls you learn basic xslt methods.

Within the CMS you create pages with custom names that are then added to your xml data file. So you can make a homepage and have custom inputs, one a tinyMCE (rich text editor) called ‘mainText’ and a page title called ‘pageTitle’. Then with xslt you can easily grab those and add it to your html like so.

<h1><xsl:value-of select=”$currentPage/data[@alias=’pageTitle’]”/></h1>
<p><xsl:value-of select=”$currentPage/data[@alias=’mainText’]” disable-output-escaping=”yes”/></p>

It will all make sense, trust me..

Anyway as for the theme -

- Is really easy to install by just replacing a few files and folders. There’s a readme in the rar file with full instructions.
- Works with Firefox, IE, Opera. Chrome and Safari mess up the tabs for some reason, will fix in due course.

Make sure you backup your “umbraco” and “umbraco_client” folders incase something goes wrong, though you’ll only be changing a few files in each folder.

Green Umbraco Theme V1 - by rorythecheese

Also will be working on a new website package in the near future, just to inform you guys.

Cheers
- Jack

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New track on myspace page

Have just added a new track that im working on to my myspace page. Is called “Jesus 12″ and should begin playing when you land on the page.

http://www.myspace.com/cymaticsound

Just to let you know - I’ll soon be making some tracks available for remix in packs containing, source files and samples.

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Great photoshop tutorial site

Found this about 3 months ago and shows how to create some great effects using photoshop. Started off with about 1 tutorial a week but has now taken off and the publish about 1 a day now. Definetly worth checking out regularly.

 http://psdtuts.com/

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Free fonts - Fontin, Fertigo

These are some of my favourite fonts and they’re free.

http://www.josbuivenga.demon.nl/index.html

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What the craps up with Google homepage now.

Anyone else noticed their google homepage feeds have changed? I can no longer click on half my feed titles, taking me through to the feed’s homepage. Only started happening this week and is well annoying.

Update : This seems to have been resolved now.

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Free music site - Imeem

Came across this not too long ago. Has loads of music on it, people upload tracks, live sets and videos of there favourite musicians which other can then search for and listen to or watch.

You can stream the music of any music you like on the site. To download you have to do so through iTunes and will cost ya.

http://www.imeem.com/

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Video : Goat doing tightrope with monkey on it back !

Best thing you’re ever likely to see . Fact.

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Free font - FF Unit Rounded Bold

Can download for free over at fontshop (have to register first though) :  http://www.fontshop.com/freefonts/

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Lightview

Came across what think is the best lightbox style image viewer yet. Has nice rounded corners and looks alot nicer than standard lightbox or any of the other types like greybox, thickbox etc. Of course it offers the standard stuff of images and galleries but also does SWF, quicktime, iframes, ajax and forms, which you can’t with lightbox 2.0 currently.

 http://www.nickstakenburg.com/projects/lightview/

for some reason none of the other javascript files are included so i zipped up all the needed files here - lightview

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CSS Float Problem

There’s a common problem with css that when you have a container div with two or more floated div’s within it then the outer div looses it’s height, and thus is not displayed. As you see below there are 2 boxes, they are within an outer div that would be hidden had i not added padding to it. You can see though that it is collapsed due to the two floated boxes within it.

To see the outer div you simply add an “overflow:auto;” to your outer div’s element style.