I just deleted my Facebook account. Yes, Facebook was annoying but I’d learned to live with the endless stream of  announcements, invitations and notifications that I didn’t care about. Facebook was poorly designed, but I’d also stopped caring about that as well. But lately… Facebook has turned into a liability that far outweighs it’s value as a marketing tool, social network or even as a piece of software. And with an irrational dictator at it’s helm the company is en route to a spectacular ending, I’m sure. (more…)

Big Beach Lodge was just relaunched with a totally new look and feel. Updated photography made this retrofit much more exciting, along with the freedom to rebrand the property with a modern touch .

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Another collaboration with the good people of Butter Creative in Vancouver.

Very happy to work on the development of jimmysimpson.com with Butter Creative.

My workflow is constantly evolving as new technologies become available. I think it’s common for heavy computer users to change it up regularly, but the willingness to always try out and be curious about new tools is essential to anyone who is passionate about interaction design and usability.

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Zero One Design was founded as a web design company in 1997, in Victoria, British Columbia. Right from the beginning, the partners envisioned creating a service that could present uniquely Canadian arts and culture: Zero One has been telling Canada’s stories ever since. I helped the partners find an updated look and feel for their organization using classic imagery with a modern slant.

My friends at Zero One Design have just begun beta testing on their new app Madrona.

“Madrona is an open source museum collections management system written for the community, by the community. Featuring an intuitive design and ground breaking media and internet integration, Madrona creates a whole new standard for collection management.”

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I’ve seen a few people on drupal.org how to implement Facebook Share and asking for modules, etc. However with the share widget provided by Facebook it’s really very easy to implement FB Share at the template level. To make it really easy, use CCK.
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Recently I was asked to summarize the parts of a drupal theme. I came up with the following semi-literate guide to my own theme framework, sp0xx6 for Drupal 6. This is not a very technical guide but I think it’s none the less important to document my perspective, especially for newcomers to drupal who are having a hard time with the way information is presented on drupal.org.

Please note: The text below makes reference to a set of theme files for Drupal themes. That theme is sp0xx6. You can download sp0xx6 from google code. For free. To keep. Forever. Drupal rocks! Thanks to everyone on drupal.org that makes my life easier and more interesting.

.info

The .info file registers your theme with drupal along with your theme’s regions (area’s content appears in) your CSS and javascript.

template.php

Your template file allows you to customize practically everything in your theme. You can rewrite the appearance of forms, lists, links, taxonomies and add all sorts of functionality.

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I am extremely happy to announce the launch of Arthur Vickers new website that coincides with Arthurs gift of The Leadership Desk to the Premiers Office of the Province of British Columbia.