Over the past year or so I’ve created some photo manipulations in my effort to expand my graphic design knowledge, and extend my capabilities in a different direction than I am familiar with. I have done several tutorials and all sorts of design methods and tools, more than I could even count.

I have been working on making a plugin for Wordpress users, that would add an Author bio box to the bottom of posts. I know there’s other plugins that do this already out there, but I don’t think any of them add a Twitter field to your profile page.

I’ve not posted in a while because I have been working a lot on New2WP.com and all that great stuff we’ve been doing over there. I have also been learning more about jQuery, and reading up on that a lot.

Here you can learn how to better understand the commonly used jQuery method $(this) if you still have an unclear understanding of it like I did for a long time. I want to help others understand it better since I had a difficult time “getting” it

It’s time for some video creativity and inspiration. After Michelle shared the T-Shirt War video with me, which I think is absolutely awesome, I wanted to post it here. I decided to just do a roundup of other stop motion animations while I was at it too. It blows my mind how they can create such videos too. If you don’t think so, then you have no idea why it should. If you did know you’d understand.

I just turned 27 on Saturday and I gotta say, it wasn’t really any different than any other day for me. You know how I spent my birthday? I was working on websites, learning more about Wordpress and all that stuff that I do on a daily basis. I spent the majority of the day alone, on my computer. I’m so exciting, and wild huh.

The whole weekend really was basically nothing more than ordinary as far as birthday weekends go. It’s not like I couldn’t find stuff to do, I just wanted to do what I do, and it made me depressed.

Two Shoreline Washington high schools battle it on with their Youtube music videos. Back in November Shorecrest High School produced a music video to Outkast’s song “Hey Ya!” that was a 4 minute long continuous shot.

A little over a month later Shorewood High School decided to show them up by releasing their own music video to Hall and Oates’ “You Make My Dreams Come True.” Only theirs was shot in reverse

Now that it’s over I wanted to write about how great Wordcamp Boston was. Check out #wcbos or #bestwordcampever if you need more proof. Or you can relive it on the live blog. I first found out about it a couple weeks before the tickets went on sale, and I immediately wanted to go. The next thing I heard was that tickets were sold out….bummer. I didn’t even know they went on sale and they were already gone. Luckily I happened to see they still needed volunteers, which I was willing to settle for even though I wouldn’t be able to see and do everything I wanted when I wanted, and I would have to do work. I just wanted to be apart of it, and I was one of those chosen to volunteer so I would be able to go after all

It’s time for another dose of design inspiration. I think it’s necessary for designers to look at others work often to help expanding the imagination of creativity. It opens you up to more ideas and things that you wouldn’t normally even think of or consider doing yourself. I think my favorite type graphic art is photo manipulation because it is one of the most creative forms of art I’ve ever seen, and it requires an extreme amount of skill to do effectively

One thing thing I would like to implement here that I have included in the new theme I’m making is post thumbnails. If you haven’t noticed the index page of this site has a post thumbnail but it isn’t displayed using custom fields. In this post I will show you how you can add post thumbnails with excerpts to your Wordpress theme

Everyone learns things differently. As a designer, and more visually oriented learner, I have a hard time learning how to do things like programming. It took me a long time, a loooong time to wrap my head around Php, and even still I find that to be a challenge. I would love to learn it better so I could be one of those Php gurus out there, but it’s just not gonna happen people

This is a two-part tutorial on Psdtuts that you will be blown away by. I say it all the time, you can find the best tutorials on the internet on Psdtuts, and this is one of them. Learn how to create this amazing illustration in this 2 part series.

This is a very long tutorial, but the result really pays off. If you’ve ever wanted to create something so amazing that everyone sees, like what you see posted online made by some of the best artists, then you must try out this tutorial

One of the things that can be very useful for developers and designers alike are the various bookmarklets that have been created. For those that don’t know what bookmarklets are, they basically are applets, small computer applications, stored as the URL of a bookmark in a web browser or as a hyperlink on a web page. They are simple tools that extend the surf and search capabilities of Firefox and Explorer web browsers

This is a new project I am working on, and it’s about time too! I have been meaning to start making Wordpress custom themes and designs for a while now, and never had the time to with all the other things I have going on. I had a reason to do it this time, and was motivated to make it the best I could, but within some requirements

This post was sent out to all the email subscribers of the Tweeaks newsletter on Christmas as a special advanced gift. I am posting it here because it’s too good not to. I wanted to create this extremely usuful list of resources for designers and those interested in graphics, and this is how I am wishing you all Happy Holidays, and a Happy New Year

Since I finished making the Featured post slider at the top of the site, I feel like the links I’ve bookmarked have proved to be helpful since I actually accomplished something on my own involoving jQuery. Plus I have been meaning to make a list of the jQuery links and resources I’ve collected for a while now, so I am finally doing it! Plus these things are so good and cool that I can’t go on not sharing them