http://www.badcat.com/ en-us Copyright 2009, badcat.com Mon, 05 Jan 2009 23:51:58 +0000 Mon, 05 Jan 2009 23:51:58 +0000 BadCat The main news feed from BadCat.com. http://www.rssboard.org/rss-specification We’ve been torturing WordPress (and other blogging software) into being a lite CMS . From a few pages that we manage for clients to hundreds of pages managed by the clients themselves, we thought there must be a better way. Sure, we’ve used ExpressionEngine, Drupal and other “real” CMSs – even BadCat.com is running off of a small newcomer called Frog (plus some custom enhancements) – but how could we wrangle WordPress into doing the task? Most of it is quite easy since WordPress manages Posts (entries) as well as traditional Pages. The real issue comes with custom datatypes and simplifying ways to enter repetitive information into custom areas on a particular page or post. WordPress’s Custom Fields handles much of the work, but the core install still doesn’t have a decent “front-end” to make the data entry and set up easy. Enter WordPress CMS plugins – an easier way to manage the Custom Fields through manipulating the KEYS and VALUES with forms based editors. Sun, 28 Dec 2008 02:22:00 EST http://www.badcat.com/journal/wordpress-as-a-cms.html http://www.badcat.com/journal/wordpress-as-a-cms.html Santa loves milk and cookies, cats love milk…coincidence, I think not. Anyway, come take a look at the new JingleCats! I mean, what else have you got to do…figure out the best way to re-gift that hideous sweater from your aunt? Drown your boredom in egg nog? Dissect the fruit cake to try and figure out what on those little clearish chunks are made of?…seriously… Go get the JingleCats at CatCubeTopia. Mon, 17 Nov 2008 11:25:00 EST http://www.badcat.com/journal/jinglecats.html http://www.badcat.com/journal/jinglecats.html Well it was off to a rocky start, but I think the fine folks at Updatable are getting it together… FrontPocket is a new iPhone application that connects to 37Signals Backpack web application through their API. I’ve been following this application for quite some time since I use Backpack daily. Wed, 12 Nov 2008 19:52:00 EST http://www.badcat.com/journal/whats-that-in-your-frontpocket.html http://www.badcat.com/journal/whats-that-in-your-frontpocket.html We’ll be at BarCamp Philly on November 8 at The University of the Arts. This is the place to be on Saturday… The event schedule will be determined that morning, there’s no planned speakers or keynotes and I’d suppose anyone can be a presenter. Visit BarCampPhilly for more info. Seeya there! Fri, 17 Oct 2008 03:18:00 EDT http://www.badcat.com/journal/barcamp-philly.html http://www.badcat.com/journal/barcamp-philly.html BadCat Design releases 5 new spooky Cubees – The cheery eerie, Scare-D-Cat line is sure to please the most fiendish papercrafter. CatCubetopia: Scare-D-Cats. Count Catula, Catparition, Zombie Cat, Kittenstien and Bonez are sure to take your breath away. Happy Halloween from BadCat Design! Mon, 13 Oct 2008 18:16:00 EDT http://www.badcat.com/journal/scare-d-cats.html http://www.badcat.com/journal/scare-d-cats.html Bla Bla Blah… the legends of Lilith ain’t got nuthin on our new “Scare-D-Cats” series of CubeeCats. So hide your babies, put away the glue, and prepare for Scare-D-Cats this Howl-o-ween. Be sure to check back next week for our 5 new papercraft CubeeCats in CatCubetopia. Fri, 10 Oct 2008 20:46:00 EDT http://www.badcat.com/journal/scare-d-cats-are-almost-here.html http://www.badcat.com/journal/scare-d-cats-are-almost-here.html You may have noticed a slight “pinkness” about our logo… It’s Pink for October but with the normal BadCat spin of seriously HOT Pink. We’re showing our support with a nod of our logo. October is BREAST CANCER AWARENESS MONTH. PINKFOROCTOBER.ORG is an initiative for blogs and websites to really drive home the message and importance of breast cancer awareness. Wed, 01 Oct 2008 18:18:00 EDT http://www.badcat.com/journal/why-so-pink.html http://www.badcat.com/journal/why-so-pink.html Heave to! In keeping with our yearly Talk Like a Pirate Celebration, I’ve faithfully converted our tagline into piratespeak. Say Hello to Creative, me mateys! So simple. Take that, ye scurvy dogs. Fri, 19 Sep 2008 13:40:00 EDT http://www.badcat.com/journal/yarr-matey.html http://www.badcat.com/journal/yarr-matey.html Welcome to a fresh new litterbox ;-) BadCat Design’s redesign of BadCat.com took some time. There’s lots of new stuff here and surely a broken link or two, so bear with us as we iron out the wrinkles. If you spot something completely broken, please let us know at the contact page. We’re looking forward to expanding this section to include rss feeds, news, updates for our clients, our views on software and the state of design and visual communication. So there! Tue, 02 Sep 2008 22:12:00 EDT http://www.badcat.com/journal/we_have_redesigned.html http://www.badcat.com/journal/we_have_redesigned.html BadCat.com's site launch marks a new beginning and good-bye, er... good riddance, to an old colleague and adversary. Internet Explorer 6 is dead! Say it - repeat after me. "Internet Explorer 6 is dead" Even Microsoft agrees. Even though this site is still averaging about 18% IE6 users, I feel it's certainly time to move on. So, the new BadCat.com is one of the first sites we're releasing with almost no support for IE6. So sad - not. C'mon, move onto something better. Even Firefox is pretty nice these days. Of course if IE8 does some great things and plays well with others, we'd be happy to whistle another tune. For now, we're whistling "Taps". Buh bye, no tears here. Follow me to the IE Deathmarch. Wed, 27 Aug 2008 22:12:00 EDT http://www.badcat.com/journal/ie6-begone.html http://www.badcat.com/journal/ie6-begone.html