Category: Originally published on arcanepalette.com
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Free Calendar Wallpaper: Captain’s Log…
Okay, so this month’s wallpaper has a bit more of a story. Or, at least, it’s meant to imply that it has more of a story. I wanted to do something spacey/sci-fi because it’s something we haven’t really done. I started thinking about what a captain’s journal might look like if it wasn’t explicitly limited…
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Free Earth Day Blogger Template: Reduce, Reuse, Recycle
Concern about the environment is a value that is very important to us. So, amidst our series of holiday-themed Blogger templates, we didn’t want to forget Earth Day, a day in which we celebrate our planet and educate ourselves on how best to be its caretakers. The rugged burlap coffee bag and aged map background…
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How I broke a javascript gallery script to make a Flash-like slideshow
This is a story about a site redesign. The site was for the mother of a client we’ve worked with on other projects. It was a kind of site we don’t normally do, but we took the gig because it was a referral and someone we know and like working with. The original site was…
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Free Wallpaper: lil somethin
This background combines two things I love: watercolor and paisley blooms spread across a subtly textured paper as if to signal the arrival of Spring in all her glory, daffodils, tulips, songbirds and sunshine spreading from her fingers. I wanted to use watercolor because it is so fun to look at, with bright colors and…
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About Face
Increasingly, the new big thing in web design is the inclusion of @font-face in CSS3 and most modern browsers. Why is @font-face such a big deal? To understand that, you must first understand the limitations of web design in the past as it applies to typefaces. To that end, a personal anecdote: Like thousands of…
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Free Holiday Blogger Template: Spring Fever
This sunny colored template is for those like me who are longing for spring. With warmth and sunlit afternoons just around the corner now, my thoughts are filled with budding trees, birdsongs, the scent of fresh grass clippings and splashes of vivid flowers painting the winter scene with renewal. This design is all Spring… a…
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Interview with indie filmmaker Amy Do — Director of Rabbit Fever
In the summer of last year, we took an exciting new project with an independent filmmaker named Amy Do. She needed a website and blog for her first feature-length film, Rabbit Fever — a documentary about…well, rabbits. She had a very distinct aesthetic she was looking for on the site, and the effort was truly…
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Interview with indie filmmaker Amy Do — Director of Rabbit Fever
In the summer of last year, we took an exciting new project with an independent filmmaker named Amy Do. She needed a website and blog for her first feature-length film, Rabbit Fever — a documentary about…well, rabbits. She had a very distinct aesthetic she was looking for on the site, and the effort was truly…
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WordPress theme framework AP-blueprint updated
We just did some minor updates to our free Arcane Palette WordPress theme framework AP-blueprint. Just some minor housecleaning that needed to get done — if you’re already using it as a framework to build WordPress themes, you probably already noticed these things, but if not, here’s what’s been updated: – changed text/javascript to application/javascript…
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lorem ipsum
lorem ipsum is the working title for a film in development from the same people we worked with to build Finding M. It’s billed as an “unconventional romance” and has a lot in common with the kind of mind-bending proto-realism as films by David Lynch or David Cronenberg. This was an interesting project to work…