So then, as promised here are RichardTape.com’s first offering of completely free desktop wallpapers. Our first couple are, quite frankly, shameless advertising, but we quite like them none-the-less. They adorn our PC’s here at Tape Towers and we’d love to hear from you if you like them so much that you choose to see them for the 3 seconds you don’t have anything open after restarting your PC :) We’ve included loads of different resolutions and also throwin in a 1900×1080 for the widescreen folk amongst you.
…continue reading: Free minimalist desktop wallpapers (including widescreen)
Recently I was asked about getting a Flickr RSS feed to be put onto a website for 
which there is a wonderful Plugin for Wordpress already written by Dave Kellam. I was then asked if it was possible to have these images which were dragged from Flickr used in a LightBox. Fortunately there is already an excellent plugin called Lightbox2 which we’re able to utilise. With a few very simple modifications to the FlickRSS code, we got what we wanted! (You can see an example of this in the Footer of all of our pages under “…elsewhere”. Here’s a tutorial on how to achieve just that.
…continue reading: Tutorial: Getting FlickRSS working with Lightbox 2 in Wordpress
For your viewing and desktop pleasure, RichardTape.com will be releasing 2 free wallpapers this coming Monday (28th July 2008). They will be in a ‘minimalist’ style and will be of all shapes and sizes and resolutions going all the way up to 1920×1080. If demand is high we will produce a multi-monitor version. There has been quite a few hours work gone into producing these little beauties, so we hope you like them. There’s a few finishing touches to do (hence the delay until Monday) but we think that they’ll be worth the wait.
…continue reading: Freebies on the way! 2 Free minimalist wallpapers
As some of you will know I’m a member of DUFFA, (Didsbury Ultimate Frisbee For Amateurs) a team which play every Thursday and Sunday at Didsbury Park (starting at 18:30 and 18:00 respectively). This coming weekend, the 26th and 27th July 2008 DUFFA is sponsoring its very own hat tournament at Burnage Rugby Club. If you’re even remotely interested then please come along at 9am on Saturday - it’s awesome fun, great exercise, really friendly and above all, we’ll get drunk afterwards!
…continue reading: Didsbury Ultimate Frisbee For Amateurs (DUFFA)
Firmly fixed in the ‘play’ department, the executive colouring book is something that a friend introduced me to - it’s hard to believe that it was first published in 1961. Not only is this highly amusing, it’s also alarmingly accurate for some people I met last time I was in London. But then again, that’s probably what being in ‘recruitment’ will do to you. *ahem* Such a shame that this is long out of print - without doubt I would have ordered one. Go cheer yourself up and have a look.
…continue reading: The Executive Colouring Book
Matt just announced the (ahead of schedule) release of Wordpress version 2.6. Most of you who use Wordpress will already know this as your admin panel will have told you there’s an update available. This is now one step closer to the end goal of WP 3.0 which I know a lot of people are looking forward to. There’s lots of cool extra features included in this update as well as a whole boat load of bug fixes. (List of features and a lovely video of what’s new after the break…)
…continue reading: Wordpress 2.6 released
Where’s versions 1 and 2?” I hear you cry in unison. Well, good question. I am unfortunately inflicted with ‘perfectionitus’ which is a dreadful ailment meaning I am hardly ever satisfied. Versions 1 and 2 of the website you see before you are in the dregs of our development server somewhere and I may, one day, drag them out as an exercise in how not to finish a project.
…continue reading: RichardTape.com v3 almost complete
Well, here it begins. As I’m looking at this there is literally just this text on the page…nothing else. No styling in place, no pictures, no other content, not even a token hamster reference. From here, great things will happen…probably. I have big aspirations for this site - with the overall game to have a community of like-minded people who help each other out in anything web design related. Also, (not entirely as a sideline, hopefully) people will be so enthralled and beguiled, they’ll want to hire me. Perhaps. Maybe.
…continue reading: Rome wasn’t built in a day, apparently
