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What is this site?
creativebits.org is a professional blog and community site for graphic designers working on Mac OS X. It's objective is to provide graphic designers a professional forum where they can share tips and tricks, follow up on the industry's events and ask for help and critique from fellow members.
What is under Home?
If you click the creativebits logo on the top of the page or the Home menupoint under it you will land in the main page of creativebits. All blog entires as well as highlighted (promoted) Forum discussions, Critiques or Weblinks appear in reverse chronological order.
What is under Blog?
This is the creativeibits community blog. Several professionals write small bits of useful or interesting bits about graphic design and the preferred choice of hardware Macintosh.
What is under Forum?
This is a place to discuss anything that is on your mind. Ask for help, discuss events, share your views. Check this section for the latest news.
What's Critique for?
Here you can upload your work for critique. Fellow members will kindly provide their constructive criticism, personal opinion and suggestions on how to improve it. You can post any jpeg or png file, which will be resized to 640px width to be diplayed on the site. If you ask for a critique on a web site, pls. make a screenshot of the web site main page and post it as an image, so that users can get a quick overview. You can provide a description of the project along with links.
What's Weblink for?
The place to post any useful links that may may be of interest to our community.
Where can I ask for help?
If you want to upload your work for criticism, please use the Critique gallery. Please post any other questions in the Member's forum.
Where is this site coming from?
creativebits.org started in June 2004 as a personal blog of Ivan Raszl. Since then it grew into a small community of professionals, who actively help each other in their everyday problems and share their thoughts about their personal and professional life.
What does the name creativebits stands for?
It has two meanings. First, it describes what this site is all about, creative as a profession and bits as small pieces of information. Secondly, it suggests the site's effect on the reader, creative as a qualifying adjective and and bits as the smallest particles of your digital artwork.
Can I start my own professional blog here?
If you are an expert in an any area of visual communications, wish to contribute back to the community, ready to accept constructive criticism on your views, be exposed to thousands of daily readers of creativebits, please apply for the free blog author account upgrade by writing to this email address: creativebits@gmail.com.
Please indicate your area of expertise and send your first sample blog entry. Within 24 hours you will be upgraded and you can start posting. You will have your own blog page in the form of http://creativebits.org/your_username and your posts will appear shuffled in with all other bloggers posts in reverse chronological order. Why not start your own blog rather than blogging here? Simply, you will get exposure and technology for free here.
How can you help us?
Several kind members asked how can they support cb. We have Google ads on this site in the sidebar and just below this section. If you see something that interests you please check it out. Remember Google pays by the number of clicks, not by the number of impressions. Thank you!
You can show your support by linking creativebits from your site. For icons check out this page.
Got more questions?
Comment here to get answers. Alternatively you can email us: creativebits@gmail.com.
Hi, my username here is "jonbalza" and I registered on March 1st of this year. As I was going through the forums, I noticed that my username is attached to several posts made by a user apparantly named "theboliep".
Examples of this can be found in these threads:
http://creativebits.org/node/583
http://creativebits.org/node/721
http://creativebits.org/node/1
Screenshots of what I am seeing are available here and here, in case you aren't getting the error on your end. As you can see from the shots, I can edit his posts.
I'm wondering if this may have something to do with the migration over to version 2 of cb.
Thanks for investigating this,
Jon
-Jon
Sorry for the trouble. Will get back to you on this!
The problem is fixed now. Thank you for your patience. See this thread for more details.
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I was just wondering what script you used to allow user logins and automated registrations - would you be able to send me a copy for use on my own site?
Thanks.
The user login and registration is a part of the free Drupal installation. You can download Drupal here: http://drupal.org/project/releases
Hi Ivan,
Is there a limit to the number of characters that can be in the signature field? My signature keeps getting partially cut off (the last 20 characters or so). I have to manually complete it on each post.
_________________________________________________
paul burd \\ multimedia designer
portfolio - www.paulburddesign.com
weblog - www.onedigitallife.com
paul burd \\ multimedia designer
portfolio \\ weblog
There is a simple solution. Cut the line above the signatures to just 3 or 5 underscores to make space.
I've been hovering around this site a while, and finally decided to log in. Now I'm looking for an old 3-part article on taking nasty little JPEGs and making them fit to print. I've entered the title of the articles — "Supersize Your Images" — in the Search engine to no avail. Any clues for this newbie? Thanks.
R. P
R. Patrick Atherton
Frostbite Falls, MN
http://creativebits.org/2004/07/ps-supersizing-your-images-part-four.html
Find links to the old ones on the bottom of the post.
Hi Ivan,
Love your site, just wish I had known that it had moved! I noticed a few weeks ago that the feed had stopped working, unbeknownst to me (and maybe a few others) you had moved your site.
Might be a good idea to put the old feed back in place with a single message telling people to update their feedreaders with the new location of the feed, I've got so much to catch up on now!
caseyg
Yes. Thanks! I should do that. :)
how do you delete duplicate posted images?
Out with the jive...in with the love.
no such feature, but if you ask to do that in a comment one of the admins will delete it.
Ivan
Great site! I have been using it longer than my membership for my user name indicates... ;)
Anyway, how do we get rid of spammers on the site? Go here for an example:
http://creativebits.org/canadian_designers
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"The price one pays for pursuing any profession or calling
is an intimate knowledge of its ugly side." - James Baldwin
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Dirt and Rust
Deleted it.
Hey Ivan. When I try to see the blog a notice appear "Access Denied". Whats up with that?
Maybe i am missing something simple but i can't find how to upload my user photograph
my account > edit > upload picture
clear enough?
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