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
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
I finally finished getting my new custom jQuery featured post slider working as you can see in the header of the site. It took some trial and error but I eventually managed to figure out how to get it working. I ran into issues because I was first trying to use to get the posts, but then learned about WP_Query() and that solved all my problems.
If you are lucky enough to have 2 monitors to do your design or development work on, I am not, then you might possibly be interested in having a wallpaper that would fit nicely as the background. I got a request from one of Tweeaks awesome readers for me to post some dual screen wallpapers, and I promised her that it would be next on my list
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
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
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
I finally finished getting my new custom jQuery featured post slider working as you can see in the header of the site. It took some trial and error but I eventually managed to figure out how to get it working. I ran into issues because I was first trying to use to get the posts, but then learned about WP_Query() and that solved all my problems.
I decided to just go ahead follow up my previous post on how to make a banner ad rotator PHP script. This one is just as simple, but is a client-side script, instead of server-side like PHP. So if your web server doesn’t have PHP installed, you can use this Javascript to rotate banners ads
There are countless ways to create a banner ad rotator script in several different coding languages. For making an ad rotator I’d prefer to do it with PHP like I have done below, but depending on where I wanted to display it, I might consider using jQuery because that is becoming one of my new faovorite things and is growing more popular everyday. This is just a basic PHP ad rotating script with nothing fancy like what you could do with jQuery, but it is still useful and rather simple to write.
I recently realized how easy it is to forget the something I once knew how to do very well. CSS was the first thing I learned how to do in web design, since I started getting into coding because of Myspace. It’s funny I know, but Myspace is the reason for what I now do for a living, but I haven’t been doing much CSS coding for a the past few months. It isn’t something I need to do much of at my current job.
CSS web galleries are a really useful and important resource for graphic and web designers. They can be great for getting new ideas and inspiration for graphics, web designs, layouts, logos, and basically all things design.
They are also another way to improve search engine optimization and page ranking, by having several incoming links to your site from other notable websites. This is obviously very important for when people search for a keyword, the most relevant results that are returned are partly based on the PageRank of certain page. So the more links to your site from sites that aren’t considered spam, the better off you are all around.
However, I did not make this list for people interested in submitting their site to CSS Galleries, at least not entirely, because there are a very large number of these types of sites, and manually submitting yours to some or all them would take time, and you might want to consider your options here first before doing so. Outlaw Design Blog gives some insight to alternate ways to for getting your site listed on CSS Galeries
here are so many websites on the internet that have some truly creative and breath-taking designs. Every time I go online I find a new website that leaves me wondering, how do people come up with such visually appealing designs. It’s one of the things that keeps me motivated to learn new design techniques and ideas.
This post is a spin-off of 2 other ones on Dzine Blog, and WebDesignerDepot which are similar to this.
My webhost, Servage.net, has written a blog about how you can create a cool CSS based drop-down menu. Surfing the web one finds many different solutions for drop-down menus, of which many involve or even solely depend on JavaScript. I would like to present another option which I personally find really cool because it’s
The final step in creating a dynamically generated featured posts slider in Wordpress using jQuery is combines the first part, Custom Loops, and second part, static slider. There are a ton of extra…
First part of making a featured slider dynamically pull Wordpress posts is to learn how to use custom loops.
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Tutorial9 has created a great list of resources from December 2009. Awesome links worth your time, and saving as we head into a whole new year.
Tutorial9 has created a great list of resources from December 2009. Awesome links worth your time, and saving as we head into a whole new year.
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Easily submit your sites to a list of CSS Galleries with this great, and free CSS Submitter.
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Textured graphics are obviously very popular right now, and fortunately there are tons of free Photoshop textures that will help you to quickly and easily get the textured look you want. In this co…
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