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Widon’tDecember 3

Love ExpressionEngine and typography, but hate widows? Eliminate widows in entry titles with the Widon't plugin.

Syncotype Your BaselinesDecember 2

From 2007, Rob Goodlatte and a useful typographic tool for working with baseline grids.

The Grid SystemDecember 2

A spooky coincidence considering the topic of my workshop yesterday.

Guerilla venue switchingDecember 1

What would you do if with only minutes until your guests arrive for your first workshop event, your venue suddenly becomes unavailable? Would you panic?

If, like us, you were packing to travel half way across the country to host your first creative workshop event, what would you make sure was in your bag?

• Presenter remote? ✓
• Laptop monitor adapter? ✓
• Spare batteries? ✓
• Backup presentation files? ✓
• Print-outs of all important information? ✓

Backup venue? No, surely not.

We had chosen Central St. Martins School Of Art and Design as our venue for our first Visual Web Design Masterclass event in London because we wanted a setting that fitted with giving our events a more creative atmosphere.

Monday morning, just before 8:00am, we took a short walk to the venue. Time was always going to be tight. Their doors were due to open at 8:00am, then we had thirty minutes to set up our registration desk and AV equipment. Our guests were due to arrive at 8:30am, to register and have breakfast ready for a 9:00am start. We were a few minutes early arriving and Central St. Martins' shutters were down and all the lights inside were dark.

8:00am came and went. I watched the minutes slip by and was starting to feel very nervous at the lack of life-signs inside.

8:05am: Still, closed, still dark and still no sign of our hosts. I walked to the back of the building and was told by a disconn

Your (physical) music needs you!November 26

Some people think that he was born on horseback. Others that he has no understanding of the word fluffy. All we know is that Gregory Wood designs a damn good blog post.