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What we want Chris to screencast on

  • When Chris gets around to making screencasts, let's help him choose by suggesting things we wish to learn more about!

    I wish to see something on Sound Manager 2, although he's already done embedding audio.

    Also I want to learn about Drupal and Joomla, although I'm pretty sure Chris is as clueless about them as I am, so that would be to no use.
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  • @Hompimpa What about colours? Exactly what is it you need to learn?

    @knittingfrenzy I'd rather Chris did screencasts on CSS issues rather than HTML/CMS/Audio although anything is nice. I've found decent courses on Drupal at Lynda.com...heck it's how I'm learning it now.
  • Can I just express the joy I felt inside when I saw the word "colours" spelt properly :)
  • Colors

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  • same, all my life I've spelled colours, then I learned to code and the colors are everywhere

    Maybe a screencast on styling social buttons :)
  • Do you guys actually pronounce the extra "u" in colours? Or is it like how the British can't say "aluminum" correctly :)

    I would love to see some screencasts on manipulating elements within other elements on hover or click. An example of this are the button effects on Wufoo.com - I'd like to dig more into that and see how far we can take it.

  • I'd like to see more on designing wordpress themes.

    P.S. It's spelled c-o-l-o-r-s. :)
  • I'm not gonna start a flamewar here but its pronounces al-ew-min-ee-əm and yeah we pronounce the u, I'm not British BTW
  • lol - you crazy Americans with your crazy ideas.

    (I am British...)
  • It's 'colours' in Canada as well, but I've switched to using 'colors'.

    But this thread is a good idea, I'm sure a little inspiration for Chris might help. What would I want to see... I'm not sure!

  • I would like to see how to make HTML and CSS appear as the code, not the markup on a text page (like with the <pre><code></code></pre>

    Colours, Aluminium, Pyjamas, ... we invented the language (we don't pronounce the "u" actually).
  • $wpdb

    Or connecting to other DBs/tables in general
  • On the topic of 'colours', the biggest issue I have with CSS: spelling centre as center. ARGH!!!!!!!!!!!

    @JoshWhite We (British English speakers, I'm Australian) spell it aluminium, hence the pronunciation difference.

    Chris, please do a screencast on getting your site to the top of the Google rankings. I joke, I joke!

    Castle or castle? Tomato or tomato?
  • But, Josh! Don't forget about us Canadians!

    Except in Canadian English, there is no difference in meaning between center and centre. Center is the preferred spelling in American English, and centre is preferred outside North America. In Canadian English, centre is the noun meaning a gathering place, while center is (1) a noun meaning the middle, and (2) a verb meaning to place at the center.
  • Haha, sorry Gray. Very interesting that you actually use both!
  • I pronounce the u in colour but I think everyone does with noticing
    For some reason I always use center for middle and centre for the building (community centre), but clearly I'm just crazy

    Maybe we should move this to a new thread before Chris makes a screencast about the English language
  • I am from Indonesia. There is no absolute word about color. I guess so, since I never typed the word warna in Google translate :P

    Chris has a very very very clever color palette. I still don't believe that he will start the rainbow color from Orange. As we know that the beginning of the rainbow is Red. That really has changed my perspective about color order.

    I want to learn about color perspective in terms of art, not about the code. About the art of color, and not about the law of color.
  • @noahgelman: Can you teach me how to draw that face with text?
  • @Hompimpa If you are on Windows, hit start, then start typing (in the search input) 'character map'. From there you can copy any character you like!

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    ARRGHH.. not working. This is a blind eyes.
    Nevermind. I don't want to make this even longer.
    Start the real thread!
  • Just to get his attention, @ChrisCoyier

    I really want to have him figure out $wpdb for me...I'm about to trash WordPress--I want easy editing pages but none of the other features for this project, virtually.