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Pat Dryburgh is a freelance designer.

London, Ontario

I had the awesome opportunity take photographs at an event this afternoon with the mayor of London, Anne Marie DeCicco-Best. My friend Richard Dew was able to organize an open conversation with her and members of the Twitter community in London to discuss issues from how local government communicates to how London Transit can adopt change and new technologies. It was an excellent afternoon, and by the looks of things, won’t be the last event of its kind. Check out more details at Roundtable London. More photos can be viewed over on Flickr.

I had the awesome opportunity take photographs at an event this afternoon with the mayor of London, Anne Marie DeCicco-Best. My friend Richard Dew was able to organize an open conversation with her and members of the Twitter community in London to discuss issues from how local government communicates to how London Transit can adopt change and new technologies.

It was an excellent afternoon, and by the looks of things, won’t be the last event of its kind. Check out more details at Roundtable London.

More photos can be viewed over on Flickr.

High-Res Images in Tumblr


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One of my favourite elements of my current blog design is the large images used for photo posts. When I post a photo that I or a friend has taken, I like that the photo will span the width of the site’s content, giving the photo priority in the content.

This morning my friend Phil Bowell emailed asking how I achieved this affect, when Tumblr limits photos to 500px wide when displayed in their themes. I thought the answer to be helpful enough to share with everyone.

When designing a Tumblr theme, Tumblr allows the designer to set the width of an image in a photo post to a certain width, using the tags {PhotoURL-500}, {PhotoURL-400}, {PhotoURL-250}, {PhotoURL-100}, or {PhotoURL-75sq}. This, in essence, limits designers to a maximum width of 500px wide.

However, they also include another tag, which is {PhotoURL-HighRes}. This produces the largest possible file that was uploaded when posting the photo blog post.

Using this tag, along with the css declaration:

.photo img { max-width: 100% }

I can have the photo span exactly the width of the content container.

With these two bits of Tumblr code and CSS in place, I usually post the URL of a Flickr photo using the 1024px version. This way, it will span the full length of my current design, and should I make my layout any wider, I shouldn’t have to go back and change all of my photo posts to accommodate a wider image layout.

I hope this helps you break free of the implied 500px width limit in Tumblr’s theme designs, and allows you to decide for yourself how you wish to display your photos and images.

Addendum

I missed a very important step in getting your site to display your high-res photos:

  1. Go to the Customize screen for your blog.
  2. Select the “Advanced” menu.
  3. Select “Enable high-res photos.”

Hope that helps!

Photo by Edward Platero My band had our CD release party last Friday. My friend Edward Platero was in attendance and took some fantastic shots of the event. The above photo is me leading the crowd in a chorus of a little “Party in the USA.” Yep, I went there.

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Photo by Edward Platero

My band had our CD release party last Friday. My friend Edward Platero was in attendance and took some fantastic shots of the event. The above photo is me leading the crowd in a chorus of a little “Party in the USA.” Yep, I went there.

Beautifully designed and really well though-out, Oh Life is an online private journal that makes it really easy to keep up to date. Every day at 8pm, Oh Life will send you an email asking “How did your day go?” All you have to do is write a reply right in your email, and you’re done. You can then go to the website to see your past entries. I used to be really good at keeping a daily journal, but I let it slip over the past year. I’m hoping this will get me writing again on a more consistent basis.

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Beautifully designed and really well though-out, Oh Life is an online private journal that makes it really easy to keep up to date. Every day at 8pm, Oh Life will send you an email asking “How did your day go?” All you have to do is write a reply right in your email, and you’re done. You can then go to the website to see your past entries.

I used to be really good at keeping a daily journal, but I let it slip over the past year. I’m hoping this will get me writing again on a more consistent basis.

Wildwood Lake, St. Marys (by Pat Dryburgh) Got to spend some quality time with good friends at the my parents’ cottage this past weekend. The first night, the sunset created these incredible colours in the sky, and I couldn’t let that moment pass by.

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Wildwood Lake, St. Marys (by Pat Dryburgh)

Got to spend some quality time with good friends at the my parents’ cottage this past weekend. The first night, the sunset created these incredible colours in the sky, and I couldn’t let that moment pass by.

In anticipation of the release of my band’s new album, we’re giving away a free download of the album’s title track, “Heavybad.” Just scoot on over to the Boss Rebel website, enter your email, and a link to the download will be sent to your email address.

In anticipation of the release of my band’s new album, we’re giving away a free download of the album’s title track, “Heavybad.” Just scoot on over to the Boss Rebel website, enter your email, and a link to the download will be sent to your email address.

Took a trip to Toronto yesterday to pick up my band’s new CD, “Heavybad.” I’m so proud of how this turned out. It was my first real photography project, and was also my first full-length album design. I learned a lot along the way, and hopefully will have more opportunities to help other artists with their projects in the near future.

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Took a trip to Toronto yesterday to pick up my band’s new CD, “Heavybad.” I’m so proud of how this turned out. It was my first real photography project, and was also my first full-length album design. I learned a lot along the way, and hopefully will have more opportunities to help other artists with their projects in the near future.

Icon Reference →


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If you are at all involved in icon design for any number of environments, including Mac OS X, iOS, Android, and more, I suggest you take a look at this chart from Jon Hicks that outlines the icon sizes and formats each OS requires.

The iPhone 4 (by Jorge Quinteros) That I have to wait until the end of July for this is driving me crazy. That most of my friends in the US have already picked theirs up is not making it any easier.

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The iPhone 4 (by Jorge Quinteros)

That I have to wait until the end of July for this is driving me crazy. That most of my friends in the US have already picked theirs up is not making it any easier.