Mark talks about what you can when you’re aligning type to a baseline grid, but smaller type seems to have too much leading. I actually use this often for larger type, too: if you can fit your larger type in one grid line, you can set the leading to two or three units — or a unit and a half, for example. The point is: even if you “fall off” the grid, you always get yourself back on. Visit site »
Inland Press has a nice little feature on our Managing Editor, Dennis Anderson, and how he’s adapted the workflow and processes in the newsroom to accommodate for today’s 24-hour news cycle and new technology. Visit site »
Although you can make it work with most any Python development setup, it is optimized for use with Django. Nice. Visit site »
You may not know that Django isn’t the only open source web application framework developed at The Lawrence Journal-World. No, a completely different unit from ours built Gantry, a Perl-based framework that is start to make quite a name for itself within Perl circles. If you’re a Perl fan, check it out. It’s actually the culmination of over 10 years of web apps coming out of that division — it’s actually older than Django.
Who would have guessed two best-of-class open source web app frameworks would come out of a small newspaper company in Kansas? Visit site »