Weekly Roundup (week ending 5/5)

Posted on May 4, 2007 in Weekly-Roundup, with 5 comments.

I decided to get rid of the ‘Interesting Links’ since I was terrible at actually updating them, and when I did update them it was all at one time. So in their place is the Weekly Roundup. Feel free to send in any cool stuff you find. Anything web design related is welcome.

Without further ado:

  • MTV.com decides Flash is so last year, and decide to go with an HTML redesign. My opinion: Eh, don’t really love it, but cudos for making it quicker to load.
  • Veerle, our favorite Belgium web designer has come up with an amazing article on bathtubs (trust me, they’re awesoeme).
  • Tired of makign the same CSS files, HTML files, and folder stucture every time you make a new site? So does Philip Karpiak, so he’s released something called the ESWAT web project framework. [note: I was totally gonna do this same exact thing]

Comments

Rommert

Comment recieved on May 5, 2007 at 3:46:12 am MDT #

And also true: I think that weekly roundup sounds more interesting than ‘Interesting Links’. (To be honest, I never saw the feature…)

Thanks for the link to the ESWAT web project framework. I were looking for something just like it the other day.

I wonder if it will play well with php frameworks like CodeIgniter or CakePHP. I think so because the siteroot setup doesn’t contain any folders that interfere with CodeIgniter or Cake.

Anyways, I’ll give it a go in my next project.

Chris

Comment recieved on May 5, 2007 at 9:20:09 am MDT #

Rom, thats an interesting question. I’ve only just started to learn PHP, so I haven’t used any of those frameworks before, but I wouldn’t think it would interefere (unless like you said the folders were named the same). From what I gather, it’s mostly a front-end framework (html/css).

Rommert

Comment recieved on May 5, 2007 at 10:14:40 am MDT #

CodeIgniter only contains index.php, so overwriting that one is inevitable, but the other folders are named “system” and “user_guide”. So in this case I think this would work well.

As for cake, it’s got index.php as well and the folder names are “app”, “cake”, “docs” and “vendors”. So it’s no prob here too.

Philip Karpiak

Comment recieved on May 7, 2007 at 11:56:31 am MDT #

Thanks for the mention Chris.

As for using my framework with an actual PHP framework like CodeIgniter or CakePHP; keep in mine that the term framework should be used very loosely for my project.

Although I’m not a PHP guru myself, I wouldn’t imagine this conflicting with PHP frameworks, since these are just design/html/css shells, and should be adaptable to most projects/CMS’.

Chris

Comment recieved on May 7, 2007 at 4:40:56 pm MDT #

Philip, no thank you! A web project framework is something that’s essential if you’re billing per hour, since it does save a lot of time and effort.

As for the PHP frameworks, I think you’re right. It shouldn’t interfere unless the folder names somehow match.

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