Hi, this is just a very, very quick post to remind my you, my readers, that I am still here, well, alive and definitely not lost. I’m extremely busy working for a client right now, but as soon as this project is complete, I’ll try my best to make up for lost time, and blog about some designs I have been working on of late.

Also, I’ll be adding the next installment of ‘How I customized my Wordpress Blog’. Please stay tuned — thanks for your patience…

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Today, I noticed on my Wordpress dashboard that another plugin was due an upgrade. I looked, and there it was — cForms version 9.0 ready for automatic install. There was a bright red warning stating that it was advisable to back up my database before updating it. Luckily, I had just received the database backup via email yesterday, via the DataBase Backup Plugin.

So, I installed the plugin and my screen went blank. Then in one foul swoop, it felled my blog for 45 minutes. I had no idea how to reset my database, so I searched the Internet and found the following tutorial from WordPress. So, if any of you out there have the same problem with this plugin (I’m using WP 2.6.2 by the way), the simple steps on this tutorial should restore your blog.

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A few days ago, I took at look at some print work I did for one of my regular clients, Next Plc, a leading word-wide clothing giant. The prints were for some of their notice-boards in the Dearne Valley Distribution Warehouse, England. The designs were nothing ground-breaking design-wise, but what this article is about is an amazingly dark CMYK Black that was achieved through the use of professional digital print. I have tried to do the black justice in the above photo — which shows a dark, almost-sparkly silk finish (although, I haven’t fully exposed its density in a mere photo).

This black was achieved using a Xeikon 5000 Digital Press (shown above), aftr sending the files to RCS Printers, located in Retford (UK). Now, there’s a lot of contention in the print-design world about the perfect values to attain a Rich Black. I’ve used Cool Black myself on a variety of occasions using 40% Cyan and 100% Black (key), but for this design, I wanted to achieve the ultimate black.

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