Global Moxie - Projects

Upcoming: Tapworthy Talks in 2010

Josh Clark — Thu, 19 Aug 2010 17:40:02 UT

I'm zigzagging the nation and the interwebs this fall to bring the Tapworthy design gospel to the masses, popping up at conferences hither and yon. I hope you can join me at one of my talks (and if you do, be sure to come up and say howdy!). Here's the rundown of the events where I'm speakings in summer and autumn 2010:

August 25. iPhone iPad Summit
September 9. Free Webcast: Designing Tapworthy iPhone Apps for Delight and Usability
September 20–24. Design for Mobile
September 30 – October 2. IDEA2010
November 7–10. 360|iDev

iPhone iPad Summit

August 25. An all-day online conference about web development for iPhone and iPad. Eight developers and designers dish the skinny, including mobile web luminaries Jonathan Stark, David Kaneda, Jesse MacFadyen, and Suzanne Ginsburg. My talk covers the must-know UX details of designing for iOS, with a focus on what makes mobile touchscreen design so different from the traditional desktop web:

Designing iPhone Apps

Tapworthy apps cope with small screens and fleeting user attention to make every pixel count, every tap rewarding. In this session, learn how to:

Capture the elusive ingredients of irresistible mobile interfaces

Craft comfortable ergonomics for fingers and thumbs

Dodge the usability gotchas of handheld devices

Turn tiny-touchscreen constraints to your advantage

Along the way, you'll get behind-the-scenes glimpses into the design process of popular apps including Facebook, Twitterrific, USA Today, Things, and others.

Free Webcast! Tapworthy: Designing iPhone Apps for Delight and Usability

September 9, 10:00 am Pacific. O'Reilly Media is hosting a free webcast where I'll talk live about the essential elements of tapworthy apps. It's a fun overview of the ideas in my book and, I promise, 60 minutes well spent. Register here.

Design for Mobile (D4M)

September 20–24, Chicago. I'm really excited to be included in a staggeringly bright lineup of speakers at this mobile design confab. Speakers include Nick Finck, Jason Grigsby, Luke Wroblewski, Suzanne Ginsburg, Scott Jenson, and loads more. Me, I’m tackling iPad pain points:

iPad Design Headaches (Take Two Tablets and Call Me in the Morning)

The iPad and its emerging entourage of Android tablets have introduced a new style of computing which confronts designers with unfamiliar challenges. Learn the symptoms (and fixes) for a range of new-to-the-world iPad ailments, including Greedy Pixel Syndrome, the dreaded Frankeninterface, and the “I Can’t Believe It’s Not Butter” bait and switch. This talk explores practical techniques and eye-opening gotchas of tablet interface design, all grounded in the ergonomics, context, psychology, and nascent culture of these new devices.

IDEA2010

September 30 – October 2, Philadelphia. A high-octane, single-track conference for UX professionals. Speakers include Jeffrey Zeldman, Jared Spool, Peter Morville, Andy Budd, Liz Danzico and a who's who list of today's best interaction designers.

I'll tackle a topic that I've been thinking about a lot lately: a cultural take on the fragmentation of mobile platforms. Here's the gist:

Going Native: The Anthropology of Mobile Platforms

Mobile website or native app? iPhone or Android? BlackBerry or Windows Phone 7? Choosing a mobile platform for your app isn't just about tech specs. Culture matters, too, in an era when consumers suddenly perceive mobile apps as richly personal—software as content instead of tool. This talk explores mobile platforms as cultures, offering a new path through the thick jungle of mobile platform decisions. Before you go native, understand each mobile tribe's peculiar rituals, community, and mindset.

In the next year, designers and developers will face at least 10 major mobile operating systems. Every one of them has a unique personality, design sensibility, set of social norms, even government—all of which determine how well your individual app (and its audience) will thrive, with a direct impact on design considerations. How does the paternal culture of iPhone's philosopher-king model fit your app versus the frontier-maker culture of Android? And where does the web fit in? Discover the cultural and practical considerations of choosing the right platform(s) for your app and audience, and of crafting a design that works for all.

360|iDev

November 7–10. Austin, TX. I'm slinging design advice to a big, big audience of iPhone developers. 360iDev is a nitty-gritty conference for iOS developers to get down and dirty with practical techniques and go deep on technical topics. Meanwhile, I'm bringing the human element to all this tech talk with two (two!) talks on iOS experience design:

Designing for Touch: Mobile Design Is Industrial Design

Designing for touch means you're doing more than just slinging pixels: you're designing a physical interface to be explored by human hands. Just as surely as if you were soldering circuit boards, molding plastic, or shuffling die-cast buttons, your design defines the physical experience of the device, with honest-to-god ergonomic issues. Explore how industrial-design principles apply to mobile app design, and learn the rules of thumb (and fingers) that describe the best app designs.

iPad Design Headaches: Take Two Tablets, Call Me in the Morning

The iPad introduced a new style of computing, confronting designers with unfamiliar aches and pains. Learn the symptoms (and fixes) for a range of new-to-the-world iPad interface ailments, including Greedy Pixel Syndrome, the dreaded Frankeninterface, and the "I Can't Believe It's Not Butter" bait and switch. Explore practical techniques and eye-opening gotchas of iPad interface design, all grounded in the ergonomics, context, psychology, and nascent culture of these new devices (both iOS and Android). The presentation inoculates you against common problems with close-up looks at successful iPad apps from early sketches to final design.

Tags: conference, ipad, iphone, josh, mobile, tapworthy

Now Available: Tapworthy: Designing Great iPhone Apps

Josh Clark — Mon, 28 Jun 2010 06:07:54 UT

Tapworthy: Designing Great iPhone Apps is available on bookshelves everywhere starting this week. Grab the book at your favorite bookseller, [order it from Amazon], or buy direct from my publisher O’Reilly Media, who also offers ebook versions. You can even save some major coin by buying the book as an iPhone app for just five bucks.

What’s it about? I’ll let the book jacket do the talking:

So you’ve got an idea for an iPhone app -- along with everyone else on the planet. Set your app apart with elegant design, efficient usability, and a healthy dose of personality. This accessible, well-written guide shows you how to design exceptional user experiences for the iPhone and iPod Touch through practical principles and a rich collection of visual examples.

Whether you’re a designer, programmer, manager, or marketer, Tapworthy teaches you to “think iPhone” and helps you ask the right questions -- and get the right answers -- throughout the design process. You’ll explore how considerations of design, psychology, culture, ergonomics, and usability combine to create a tapworthy app. Along the way, you’ll get behind-the-scenes insights from the designers of apps like Facebook, USA Today, Twitterrific, and many others.

Develop your ideas from initial concept to finished design

Build an effortless user experience that rewards every tap

Explore the secrets of designing for touch

Discover how and why people really use iPhone apps

Learn to use iPhone controls the Apple way

Create your own personality-packed visuals

Hope you enjoy the book! (And if you do, please consider adding your review to Tapworthy’s Amazon page).

Tags: books, tapworthy

“iPad Headaches”: Presentation at Design For Mobile (D4M)

Josh Clark — Mon, 21 Jun 2010 20:15:30 UT

Come join me in Chicago, where I’ll be speaking at the Design For Mobile (D4M) conference, held September 20-24, 2010. Conference curator Barbara Ballard of Little Springs Design has pulled together a staggeringly impressive lineup of speakers. Really excited to be in such bright company.

Here’s the lowdown on the conference:

Design For Mobile (D4M) is a multi-faceted conference aimed at engaging the mobile community in a shared discussion about the future of mobile and ‘the mobile now.’ This is a conference focused on strategy and tactics for user research, product definition, usability testing, interaction and design. D4M is comprised of both preliminary and advanced workshops that flank three full days of speakers and interactive sessions.

Me, I’m tackling iPad pain points in a talk tentatively titled “iPad Design Headaches (Take Two Tablets and Call Me in the Morning).” Here’s the gist: The iPad and its emerging entourage of Android tablets have introduced a new style of computing which confronts designers with unfamiliar challenges. Learn the symptoms (and fixes) for a range of new-to-the-world iPad ailments, including Greedy Pixel Syndrome, the dreaded Frankeninterface, and the “I Can’t Believe It’s Not Butter” bait and switch. This talk explores practical techniques and eye-opening gotchas of tablet interface design, all grounded in the ergonomics, context, psychology, and nascent culture of these new devices.

The talk comes with genial bedside manner included. Hope you can make it.

Tags: conference, d4m, josh, speaking

Tapworthy: Designing Great iPhone Apps

Sun, 14 Mar 2010 19:45:04 UT

Tapworthy: Designing Great iPhone Apps

So you've got an idea for an iPhone app — along with everyone else on the planet. Set your app apart with elegant design, efficient usability, and a healthy dollop of personality. Tapworthy takes you from concept to polished interface design with plain-spoken principles and a rich collection of visual examples for designing exceptional interfaces for the iPhone and iPod Touch. Witty, down-to-earth, and irreverent, this guide is for everyone involved in the app design process: designers, programmers, managers, and marketers. At every stage, you'll find a gallery of app screenshots to illustrate best practices and inspire you with innovative designs. Published by O'Reilly Media. June 2010.

Tapworthy: Designing Great iPhone Apps on Bookshelves June 2010

Josh Clark — Fri, 12 Mar 2010 00:00:26 UT

So I’m writing and designing another book for O’Reilly. Tapworthy: Designing Great iPhone Apps hits bookshelves in June 2010, and you can preorder it now or even get a sneak peek at some chapter drafts. Here’s how:

Preorder the book at Amazon or O’Reilly
Subscribe to the “rough cuts” version to read the manuscript as I write it

There are lots of books about making iPhone apps, but this one’s different. This isn’t a code book. It’s not a marketing book. It’s about the design and psychology and culture and usability and ergonomics of the iPhone and its apps. It’s about how to design something awesome, about creating an iPhone app that delights.

Tapworthy chases down the elusive qualities of tapworthy apps: elegant design, efficient usability, and a healthy dollop of personality. The book takes you from concept to polished interface design with plain-spoken principles and a rich trove of visual examples for designing exceptional interfaces for the iPhone and iPod Touch.

And no kidding, it’s a fun read. It’s not just for geeks. Tapworthy is for everyone involved in the app design process — designers, programmers, managers, marketers, and smitten iPhone enthusiasts. You’ll discover practical advice for sharpening your app’s features, creating an effortless user experience, using iPhone controls the right way, and creating your own personality-packed visuals. At every stage, you’ll find a gallery of app screenshots to illustrate best practices and inspire you with innovative designs.

The book’s common-sense principles will equip you to ask the right questions throughout the design process to make aesthetic, technical, and usability decisions that will make your app a pleasure to use.

Case studies and interviews with iPhone superstars let you look over the shoulders of the best app developers, following the evolution of app designs from early sketches to finished product. Many thanks to all the breathtakingly bright folks who gave so much time to discuss their process: Facebook’s Joe Hewitt, Iconfactory’s Craig Hockenberry and Gedeon Maheux, Cultured Code’s Jürgen Schweizer, Dragthing’s James Thomson, Gowalla’s Josh Williams, Mercury Intermedia’s Rusty Mitchell — and still more to come.

I’m really excited about the book, one of the best things I’ve made so far. I hope you’ll check it out.

Tags: books, design, iphone, josh, tapworthy

Perl Critic for BBEdit 1.1

Josh Clark — Mon, 27 Jul 2009 09:20:01 UT

I've just made a quick compatibility update to Perl Critic for BBEdit, a free plugin for the BBEdit text editor that lets Perl programmers check their code against the style recommendations of Damian Conway's book, Perl Best Practices. Warnings are displayed in the results browser just like BBEdit's built-in Perl and HTML syntax checkers.

Version 1.1 adds a compatibility fix for Perl::Critic 1.094 and later. Download the latest version here.

Perl Critic for BBEdit requires Mac OS X 10.3.9 or later. It's been tested against BBEdit 8.2.6, 8.5, and 9.2.1. The Perl::Critic module must be installed.

Perl Critic for BBEdit is free and released under a Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike License.

Tags: bbedit, perl, software

Now on Shelves: Best iPhone Apps

Josh Clark — Fri, 24 Jul 2009 18:19:46 UT

My latest book for O'Reilly Media, Best iPhone Apps, is back from the printer and should hit bookshelves next week (starting July 28). I'm really excited about this one for all the reasons I described here. The iPhone is already fast making changes in the way that we personally relate to information and our immediate environment, but at the same time, lots of iPhone owners haven't begun to tap the potential of their glossy gadgets. This book and its online sidekick, the Best iPhone Apps website, aims to help.

With over 65,000 iPhone apps to choose from, there's a mind-boggling number of ways to make your favorite device do just about anything you can imagine—and almost certainly a few things you would've never thought of. So while it's not hard to find apps for your iPhone or iPod Touch, it's frustratingly difficult to find the best ones.

Best iPhone Apps guides the way, shining the light on over 200 gee-whiz apps that delight, empower, and entertain. I stress-tested thousands of titles from the App Store emporium to hand-pick apps that will make the biggest difference in every aspect of your life: at work, on the town, at play, at home, and on the road.

Video by Mike Hendrickson.

Capitalize on your time with genius productivity apps, or fritter it away with deliriously fun games. However you use your iPhone or iPod Touch, Best iPhone Apps shows you how to unlock its full potential and make the most of your glossy gadget.

And be sure to check in daily at the book's companion site at iphoneapps.oreilly.com for daily reviews plus the App Smackdown, where you can vote in a head-to-head deathmatch between two similar apps—currently it's Things vs OmniFocus in the to-do list category.

Tags: apple, books, iphone, josh, technology

Best iPhone Apps: The Guide for Discriminating Downloaders

Thu, 28 May 2009 16:23:54 UT

Best iPhone Apps: The Guide for Discriminating Downloaders

Unlock the full potential of your favorite gadget with my authoritative guide to the best apps for iPhone and iPod Touch. With over 65,000 iPhone apps to choose from, there's a mind-boggling number of ways to make your favorite device do just about anything you can imagine—and almost certainly a few things you would've never thought of. So while it's not hard to find apps for your iPhone or iPod Touch, it's frustratingly difficult to find the best ones. Best iPhone Apps guides the way, shining the light on over 200 gee-whiz apps that delight, empower, and entertain. Published by O'Reilly Media.

Tags: apple, books, iphone, josh, software

iWork ’09: The Missing Manual Now on Bookshelves

Josh Clark — Tue, 28 Apr 2009 07:41:15 UT

My book about iWork ’09, Apple’s remarkable collection of productivity software, started shipping from Amazon this week and should be available on the shelves of fine booksellers everywhere starting next week (May 4).

Snap up your copy of iWork ’09: The Missing Manual by ordering the paper book from Amazon or by downloading the ebook from publisher O’Reilly. O’Reilly also offers a nifty discount when you buy both the paper and electronic versions at once. (You can read ebooks on iPhone, Kindle or Sony Reader, or as a PDF on your computer.) If you happen to subscribe to O’Reilly’s nifty Safari Books Online service, you can read the complete book online.

iWork ’09 includes Pages, Keynote and Numbers: Apple’s word processor, presentation software and spreadsheet program. While familiar, these programs do lots of things in new and different ways than their stolid Microsoft counterparts. They make it astoundingly easy to create beautiful documents and presentations. iWork ’09: The Missing Manual gives you the complete tour; the book is comprehensive at nearly 900 pages but, no kidding, it’s also lots of fun. (I can’t imagine that any other software manual has ever featured so many superheroes.) With a uniquely witty style that helps you learn quickly, this Missing Manual explains not only how to use every feature, but why and when, with entertaining and helpful examples every step of the way.

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Tags: apple, books, iwork, josh

iWork ’09: The Missing Manual

Wed, 15 Apr 2009 14:09:13 UT

iWork ’09: The Missing Manual

Complete coverage of Pages, Keynote, and Numbers, Apple’s remarkable collection of productivity programs for creating stunning documents, slideshows, and spreadsheets. With a uniquely witty style that helps you learn quickly, this Missing Manual explains not only how to use every feature, but why and when, with entertaining and helpful examples every step of the way.

Tags: books, iwork, josh, writing

Big Medium 2: The Complete Guide

Wed, 15 Apr 2009 14:03:09 UT

Big Medium 2: The Complete Guide

A comprehensive overview of Big Medium, the website management system for designers and their clients. This friendly, accessible tour of Big Medium starts with a nuts-and-bolts explanation of how non-technical editors can add and edit webpages without any HTML know-how. The book gradually builds to more advanced topics, from custom site design to system administration.

Tags: bigmedium, books, josh, writing

iWork ’09: The Missing Manual Available for Preorder

Josh Clark — Fri, 27 Mar 2009 14:25:32 UT

iWork ’09: The Missing Manual by Josh Clark. Published by Pogue Press and O'Reilly Media.

Last week, I polished off the edits for my forthcoming book iWork ’09: The Missing Manual. This weekend, I start reviewing the galleys. From there, the book zooms through the final production process on track for publication on or about April 30.

I know, I know, the anticipation is killing you! Me too. Take action to calm those frayed nerves: Preorder the book from Amazon, or start reading right away by purchasing the "rough cut" version. (The rough cut is like the beta version of a book, giving you online access to the book as it goes through the edit process; for a few bucks more, you get a discounted price off the final printed book, too.)

What’s Cool About iWork ’09

iWork ’09 is Apple's remarkable collection of "productivity software," a bland phrase for a normally bland category of software. An inspiring spreadsheet program? A rousing word processor? The concepts seem improbable—but as usual, Apple beats the odds. When the company unveiled its iWork collection of programs, Apple proved that doing serious work doesn’t have to feel serious. The package includes Pages, Keynote and Numbers: iWork’s word processor, presentation software and spreadsheet program. While familiar, all three are remarkably different from what came before. For the needs of most individuals, small businesses, educators, and families, the whole experience is a big step up from the dreary orthodoxy of Microsoft Office.

All iWork programs put an unprecedented emphasis on the design and polish of your final document, making it almost effortless to create results that look not only professional, but actually stunning. Pages turns the mild-mannered word processor into a graphic design program; Keynote’s visual gymnastics make your Mac look like a Hollywood special effects studio (Al Gore even won an Oscar for his Keynote slideshow); and Numbers spreadsheets morph your gray columns and rows into dazzling multimedia reports.

When even your spreadsheets sparkle, it’s hard not to feel energized about your work.

This isn't about glitz, it's about the quality of your working life: When even your spreadsheets sparkle, it’s hard not to feel energized about your work. This, of course, is Apple’s strong suit. All of the company’s software is tuned for helping regular folks painlessly turn out sophisticated creations to rival the pros—from making music to editing movies to creating photography books. Apple has a certain magic for making powerful software approachable and with iWork the results are at once so productive and satisfying that it becomes—and please, don’t tell the boss—almost fun to get work done.

What’s Cool About This Book

This should go without saying, but iWork ’09: The Missing Manual is comprehensive: In around 900 pages, the book details every nitty-gritty feature of Pages, Keynote and Numbers. You’ll find clear evaluations of each feature to help you determine which ones are useful to you, as well as how and when to use them. Shortcuts and workarounds save you time and headaches and you’ll even unearth features that Apple's own instructions don’t even mention.

But the book is also more than a run-of-the-mill manual. Like the whole Missing Manual series, this guide is a breed apart. Most software manuals aren't especially fun. Or friendly. Or inspiring. I set out to make this one all three.

Beyond just the mechanical aspects of using iWork, the book gives you practical aesthetic advice about document design and presentation—techniques that the pros use for weaving elegant layouts. Pages, Keynote and Numbers give you amazing technical tools to create luxurious layouts—or shoot yourself in the foot. This book helps keep the lead out of your sneakers with simple, good-natured tips for planning and preparing your document layout, based on tried-and-true principles of graphic design. Similarly, the Keynote section offers tips for building a presentation that won’t turn into a snoozefest. Throughout, you’ll find carefully constructed sample documents showing how to put iWork’s tools to best effect and, hopefully, provide a hint of inspiration for your own work.

If you're not yet sold, I'll let you in on one other little secret: No other software manual has ever featured quite so many superheroes. Most of the book's sample documents follow the further adventures of a company called Up & Away, Megaville’s leading superhero outfitter, where no task is impossible and every cape fits perfectly. You, of course, are the hero of this particular story and well before the end of this book you will have discovered your superpower: an unwavering ability to create spectacular documents. How can you resist? Order yours now.

Tags: apple, books, iwork, productivity, software

Big Medium Book: Now in Paperback

Sat, 04 Oct 2008 13:59:48 UT

Until now, Big Medium 2: The Complete Guide has been available only as a PDF download, a collection of so many pixels. Me, I prefer my reference guides in physical paper within easy reach, so I’m pleased to finally offer the Big Medium book as a paperback.

The 256-page book is available from Lulu.com for $14.20 plus shipping. In addition to providing a more convenient format, the book makes for an ideal deliverable for design clients or as a leave-behind for pitch meetings.

If you prefer pixels over pages, never fear, the guide remains available as a free PDF download.

At last, an index

Nineteenth-century legal historian Sir Frederick Pollock liked to say, “A man who would publish a book without an index ought to be banished ten miles beyond Hell where the Devil himself could not go because of the stinging nettles.”

Um, yeah. What he said. I’ve corrected this longstanding omission from the Big Medium book, which now features a detailed index.

Make your own Big Medium guide

I’ve also made it easy for you to create your own custom Big Medium guide, tailored to the specific needs of your organization or clients. The complete text of the book is now available as an RTF file for editing in Microsoft Word or your favorite word processor.

Big Medium 2: The Complete Guide is licensed under a Creative Commons license. You’re allowed (encouraged!) to make copies, share the content or mix it with your own work.

Tags: bigmedium, lulu.com, self-publishing

Big Medium 2.0.8

Josh Clark — Mon, 15 Sep 2008 13:55:17 UT

Big Medium 2.0.8 is a maintenance update that fixes a handful of bugs.

(This version was briefly released as v2.0.7, but there was a problem with one of the download files. The issue has been fixed and the version number has accordingly been updated to v2.0.8.)

Go get it

Download the latest version of Big Medium here.

The download package includes complete installation instructions, including notes for upgrading from previous versions of Big Medium. Shortcut instructions for upgrading from Big Medium 2.0 or later are also included below.

What’s new

The “comment count” link element now properly displays in <%latest%>, <%quicktease%> and <%news%> widgets in addition to the primary link widgets (<%spotlight%>, <%links%> and <%morelinks%>).
Fixed a bug that could prevent overflow pages from being properly updated.
Fixed a bug that caused Internet Explorer to open a blank page when clicking e-mail links created in the rich-text editor.
Fixed a display issue that caused document icons in download links to appear in the incorrect location in Internet Explorer.
Fixed a compression problem in prototype-scriptaculous.js, which breaks Prototype’s Ajax methods. (This affects you only if you have created your own custom Ajax JavaScript code on top of Big Medium’s built-in Prototype.js library.)
Added additional logging of Akismet comment submissions.

Upgrading from Big Medium v2.0-v2.0.3?

If you’re upgrading from versions v2.0-v2.0.3, you can follow the upgrade instructions described in the v2.0.4 announcement.

Upgrading from Big Medium v2.0.4-v2.0.7?

Shortcut instructions for upgrading from v2.0.4-v2.0.7 are provided below.

This upgrade process will rebuild all pages of your site(s):

1. Set your FTP client to “plain text” or “ascii” mode.

2. Upload to `moxiebin/Modules` directory:

BigMed.pm
BigMed (directory and all contents)

3. Upload to `moxiedata/support/assets` directory:

prototype-scriptaculous.js

4. Upload to `moxiedata/templates/site_templates` directory:

base.css

5. Upload to `bmadmin/wysiwyg/editor/dialog` directory:

fck_link (directory and all contents)

6. Run the updater

Browse to the bm-update.cgi file in your site’s moxiebin directory. For example:

http://www.example.com/cgi-bin/moxiebin/bm-update.cgi

Along the way, the update process will rebuild all pages of your site(s).

7. Clear your browser cache

Clear your browser cache, and ask other Big Medium editors to do the same.

This completes the update.

Tags: bigmedium

Big Medium 2.0.6

Josh Clark — Wed, 03 Sep 2008 13:42:38 UT

Big Medium 2.0.6 fixes a bug introduced in version 2.0.4, which can prevent Big Medium from properly importing document files from Big Medium v1 sites. This update is recommended if you plan to import sites from Big Medium 1.x into your Big Medium 2 installation.

The new version also fixes a bug that could cause a brief flicker on some sites and in some browsers when a page is first loaded.

Go get it

Download the latest version of Big Medium here.

The download package includes complete installation instructions, including notes for upgrading from previous versions of Big Medium.

Upgrading from Big Medium 2.0.4 or 2.0.5?

Shortcut instructions for upgrading from 2.0.4 or 2.0.5 are provided below. If you're upgrading from versions 2.0-2.0.3, you can follow the upgrade instructions described in the v2.0.4 announcement. (If you’re upgrading from a version prior to 2.0, including a Big Medium 2.0 beta version or release candidate, please follow the full installation instructions in the download package; along the way, those instructions include special notes for upgrading.)

To upgrade from v2.0.4 or v2.0.5:

1. Set your FTP client to “plain text” or “ascii” mode.

2. Upload to `moxiebin/Modules` directory:

BigMed.pm

3. Upload to `moxiebin/Modules/BigMed` directory:

ImportV1.pm
Update.pm

4. Upload to `moxiebin/Modules/BigMed/Format` directory:

HTML.pm

5. Upload to `moxiedata/templates/site_templates` directory:

base.css

6. Run the updater

Browse to the bm-update.cgi file in your site’s moxiebin directory. For example:

http://www.example.com/cgi-bin/moxiebin/bm-update.cgi

This completes the update from v2.0.4 or v2.0.5

Tags: bigmedium

Global Moxie - Projects

Upcoming: Tapworthy Talks in 2010

iPhone iPad Summit

Designing iPhone Apps

Free Webcast! Tapworthy: Designing iPhone Apps for Delight and Usability

Design for Mobile (D4M)

iPad Design Headaches (Take Two Tablets and Call Me in the Morning)

IDEA2010

Going Native: The Anthropology of Mobile Platforms

360|iDev

Designing for Touch: Mobile Design Is Industrial Design

iPad Design Headaches: Take Two Tablets, Call Me in the Morning

Now Available: Tapworthy: Designing Great iPhone Apps

“iPad Headaches”: Presentation at Design For Mobile (D4M)

Tapworthy: Designing Great iPhone Apps

Tapworthy: Designing Great iPhone Apps on Bookshelves June 2010

Perl Critic for BBEdit 1.1

Now on Shelves: Best iPhone Apps

Best iPhone Apps: The Guide for Discriminating Downloaders

iWork ’09: The Missing Manual Now on Bookshelves

iWork ’09: The Missing Manual

Big Medium 2: The Complete Guide

iWork ’09: The Missing Manual Available for Preorder

What’s Cool About iWork ’09

What’s Cool About This Book

Big Medium Book: Now in Paperback

At last, an index

Make your own Big Medium guide

Big Medium 2.0.8

Go get it

What’s new

Upgrading from Big Medium v2.0-v2.0.3?

Upgrading from Big Medium v2.0.4-v2.0.7?

1. Set your FTP client to “plain text” or “ascii” mode.

2. Upload to moxiebin/Modules directory:

3. Upload to moxiedata/support/assets directory:

4. Upload to moxiedata/templates/site_templates directory:

5. Upload to bmadmin/wysiwyg/editor/dialog directory:

6. Run the updater

7. Clear your browser cache

Big Medium 2.0.6

Go get it

Upgrading from Big Medium 2.0.4 or 2.0.5?

1. Set your FTP client to “plain text” or “ascii” mode.

2. Upload to moxiebin/Modules directory:

3. Upload to moxiebin/Modules/BigMed directory:

4. Upload to moxiebin/Modules/BigMed/Format directory:

5. Upload to moxiedata/templates/site_templates directory:

6. Run the updater

2. Upload to `moxiebin/Modules` directory:

3. Upload to `moxiedata/support/assets` directory:

4. Upload to `moxiedata/templates/site_templates` directory:

5. Upload to `bmadmin/wysiwyg/editor/dialog` directory:

2. Upload to `moxiebin/Modules` directory:

3. Upload to `moxiebin/Modules/BigMed` directory:

4. Upload to `moxiebin/Modules/BigMed/Format` directory:

5. Upload to `moxiedata/templates/site_templates` directory: