Until Apple comes out with a proper fix for this, I’ve discovered a temporary fix that will do for now. When in Thumbnail view, press CMD+2 (to get the list view) then CMD+1 (to go back to thumbnail view) and you’ll see your slider will then work fine.

PS: If you can’t see the slider on the Finder window, activate the status bar by going to View > Show Status Bar, or press CMD+/.

Here are w few things to remember:

• Keep your table structure as simple as possible.
• Try to avoid using ‘margin’ to create space between images. Rather cut out an image that is the full width and hieght of the cell you want it in, even if it means adding in ‘white space’ around the image. Trying to add an image into the centre of a cell then adding padding around it to separate it from the cell edges can cause issues in some email readers.
• Your email table should be wrapped in one large table (1 row & 1 column). Set the wrapper width to 99% for webmail.
• Create the table structure first, before adding in any text/images.
• Background images can be stripped out of some email programs. If you use a background image, include a background colour in the cell attributes as well in case the bg image doesn’t appear.
• If using multiple columns in some rows, remember to use the colspan tag to ensure the rows that use fewer columns don’t mess up your layout.
• Keep all your CSS inline – in other words, don’t link your CSS to a separate file. Keep it embedded in the lines of code you want it to affect.
• Set any links to target=”_blank”. This is for webmail – no links should be opened in the email itself.
• Try avoid “span” or “div” tags because older email clients don’t recognise them.
• If you want to use a break tag, use the old style <br> not the self-closing XML one: <br />.
• Set the paragraph style for each <p> tag. Older email clients may not recognise global styles for child elements. Do the same for header tags.
• Older email clients tend to ignore the “margin” tag – use “padding” instead.
• Test your email on multiple platforms if possible – have a look at Adobe Browser Labs, Campaign Monitor, or MailChimp. These websites also have tons of useful information when it comes to designing your first email campaign.
• Remember to include an unsubscribe button and a link to view the web version of the email.
• Include a text-only version of your email. Bear in mind that text emails can only be about 60 characters wide, so keep it narrow. Also, links need to be typed out instead of embedded in “href” tags.
• Remember, GMail and some other web-based email clients will disable images by default – this can only be changed on the recipient’s side, so try use as few images as possible and get creative with background colours.

1. Create your frame and fill it with the desired colour.
   
2. While the frame is selected, go to Object > Effects > Inner glow in the top navigation bar.

   
   

3. In the options section of the dialogue box push the noise slider up to 100% (or as much as it suits you).
4. Change the source to ‘centre’ and the size to 0.
5. You can change the blending mode to ‘normal’ if you like, however this will depend on what colour you select the noise to be, so play with this option a bit and see what works for you.
6. The effect will be quite strong, so lower the opacity to suit your taste.
   

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Update: On morgueFile, Freelance photographer Jodie Coston offers a free online course in photography. The course is sectioned into 10 lessons and covers most of the basic elements of photography. Each lesson has a separate discussion board and assignments to help you put what you learned into practice. Check out the lessons here.

Here we go…

1. Open a new document. Mine is 1000px by 1000px at 72 ppi resolution.
2. Right click on the background layer in the layer panel and convert it to a smart object. This will allow you to adjust all the filters we apply later to suit your taste.
   
3. Set your foreground and background colours to the default black and white (press D to set this).
4. Run the cloud filter (Filter > Render > Clouds). Press ctrl + F for PC or cmd + F for Mac to rerun the filter if you don’t like the result you initially got.
   
5. Now go to Filter > Sketch > Bas Relief. I cranked the detail up to 15, set the smoothness to 2 and set the light to come in from the top left. If your document is a different size then adjust the smoothness until you get nice sharp edges.
6. This is the result.
   

You can view my Dribbble page here.

The problem seemed to stem from one of the theme’s plugins (the tag cloud). Considering I couldn’t even log into my dashboard to turn off this widget, I found myself wading through the murky world of PHP code to try figure out how to turn the silly thing off that way. It was hopeless. I’m a designer, not a developer. XHTML and CSS is where the limits of my web dev experience begin and end. If I was going to fix my site, I was going to have to roll back to the previous version of WordPress. Luckily, I am diligent with my backups so I wouldn’t lose any information.

Just at that moment, Twitter came to my rescue. I had posted the error on Twitter earlier to see if anyone could help, and help they did. Oh yes, @me_bipolar sent me a link that fixed everything. He was my hero, my knight in blue feathers. And he has definitely earned his spot on my list of The Coolest Designers on Twitter. The fix lay in replacing line 355 of /library/widgets.php from this line of code:

function Arras_Widget_Tag_Cloud() { $this->WP_Widget_Tag_Cloud(); }

to this line of code:

function Arras_Widget_Tag_Cloud() { parent::__construct(); }

Click over to the lads at WP-Insert for the full article and fix.

Big thanks also go out to @Dwyndal, @rickss and @Conzpiracy for their advice and support. You guys rock.

The list is by no means exhaustive and I’ll be adding to it every so often. If you know of any awesome designers (or you are one), feel free to drop a comment below. Share the love.

@alj000
A designer wanna be who wants to quit day job to become a full time blogger and web designer I also like to watch TV and movies a lot.

@AndrewKelsall
Graphic & Web Designer, Creative Blogger & WordPress user, Tech-head, Christian & Mac addict… Visit my Blog for more info; I’d love to have you onboard

@brand_nu
Creative thinking expressed in colour and shapes. Or something like that.

@brycechapman13
I’m a photographer, digital artist, graphic designer, and…ummm gonna be doing stuff soon So follow me

@chriswthurman
Web Designer and Blogger but that just scratches the surface. See my design blog at http://www.visualswirl.com and let me know how I can help you.

@Conzpiracy
Digital Artist, Flyer Designer & Photoshop specialist. The Beauty of Fear. Cyberpunk.

@DavidCousens
One half of Cool Surface illustration. We draw stuff for money!

@designthatrocks
Creative Director for Design That Rocks, offering design for web & print, project management, consulting & branded line of limited edition DTR products.

@Fantasiox
My name is Oliver, I´m an Illustrator, active listener and a storyteller for the eye. I love coffee & social media, my credo is: to hell with status quo.

@gaksdesigns
Freelance Graphic Designer/Illustrator. Gamer, into fine arts,student, Laid back dude, Cool Guy

 @galaxyturbo
Interactive Media Designer x Final Year IxD Student at UNN, Newcastle x Artist at The Luminarium and Intrinsic Nature.

@JThompsondesign
Fan of Dieter Rams & the Bauhaus, product design lover of function over aesthetics. Owner @designjuices

@kre8ivPS
Digiart, photography, graphic design, CSS + JS, typography, testing software-apps-tools, Botanic Garden in Glencoe. Pavarotti! Photoshop obsessed.

@me_bipolar
Web, Motion, Interactive Designer/Artist living in Mpls MN.

@Minervity
Computer geek, Social Media Fanatic, Loves everything larger than a byte, Web Designer, Developer and founder of @bitrebels.

@nymphont
dweeb. font geek. freelance designer. single mommie. coolest person i know. humble too. silly. lover not a fighter.

@rickss
I am a freelance UX / UI designer. I love to make things simple.

@RobCubbon
Design and Marketing – loves websites, email marketing, blogs, re-branding, WordPress, social media… Based in London, UK.

@robertoblake
I’m a Graphic Designer and Digital Artist from New York. I love Design, Social Media, SEO and bunnies.

@steihl
Graphic/Web Designer. Passionate about all things creative, movies and sports.

@Vegagirl5
Strictly a Web Design Junkie out to get my graphics on. Talk CODE to me