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Text Formatting: Excerpts
By FFW on January 13, 2008

FFW Ver1.3 has a built in capability to extract the first 40 words of your posts and make it the excerpt of the post. I.E, the part before the  (more...) section. However, if you choose to overwrite this, do the ...

Text Formatting: Pagination
By FFW on January 13, 2008

Q: What do you do if you have a very very long article and you do not want to split it into 2 separate posts? A: You split it into shorter pages. FFW Ver1.3 now allows you to do that and this ...

Image Formatting:General Guides
By FFW on January 13, 2008

Images are a critical part of FiveFootWay articles. They add to the richness of the article and a good picture can tell a story by itself. FFW ver1.3 introduces thumbnails to accompany your posts and also the creation of an ...

Image Formatting: Captions and Acknowledgements
By FFW on January 13, 2008

Captions are used for 2 purposes. 1- To describe the photo 2- To acknowledge the source. The standard formatting to use is " Image: A nice picture. Source: Name of Source " Acknowledgements ------------------------------------------------------------------ For ANY image that is uploaded to the FFW system, it is ...

Image Formatting: Main Article Image & Thumbnails
By FFW on January 13, 2008

FFW ver1.3 introduces thumbnails to accompany your posts and also the creation of an automated slideshow at the front page. For this NEW formatting to work, it is critical that images are formatted properly. IMPORTANT NOTE ------------------------------------------------------------------ As you would know, every image ...

VietNamNet - Big cities need chief architect
By FFW on January 8, 2008

Both Hanoi and HCM City had chief architects in the 1990s. Half a decade after canceling this system, the Construction Ministry now, again, wants head architects to guide the overall design of major hubs....

10 Facts: urban settings as a social determinant of health
By FFW on January 7, 2008

Photo: WHO / P. Virot Of the three billion people who live in urban settings, an estimated one billion live in slums. Read more at the World Health Organization.

The here and now of the real life is better, for Architecture
By FFW on January 6, 2008

by Bill Mitchell, BDOnline.co.uk  Christmas store displays pastiche the past, but the here and now of real life is better, for architecture Bill Mitchell from UK Architecture Magazine BDOnline compares artist Damien Hirst's work and ...

Techtile Exhibition by Nosigner
By FFW on January 3, 2008

Dezeen have posted photos and write-up of the Techtile Exhibition by Nosigner. "TECHTILE exhibition mainly staged by 2 researchers of the university, Yasuaki Kakehi, Masashi Nakatani and nosigner. The exhibition focuses at integration of tactile design & latest tactile ...

New Year, New Office
By FFW on December 24, 2007