January 15th, 2010
The new site for Stand Sound marks the third site in a row that I have made use of the powerful Flutter plugin for WordPress. Stand Sound is a company that offers post-production sound packages to film and tv productions and their new site needed to showcase information in ways that went beyond what the typical WordPress page is capable of.
For their Projects, Personnel and Facilities pages, we needed a way to display images, information and links without being confined to the normal block of text. To accomplish this in a way that added …
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Categories: Blog, Custom Blogs, Web Design.
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January 13th, 2010
One of the great things about working with talented people is that the end product is something you wouldn’t have been able to accomplish on your own. I have worked on several sites now with the talented brand and identity designer Ellen Petty of Identity Kitchen (see previous post with examples), all custom blogs designed by Identity Kitchen and programmed by myself using WordPress. But the site for Studio Diana is an all-in-one portfolio site and blog, …
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Categories: Blog, Web Design, WordPress Development.
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November 25th, 2009
Here is a quick look at a blog I did for Andrena Photography. Based in Los Angeles Andrena is an amazing photographer, best known for her Indian Weddings. As proof, you will notice amongst the list of referrals on her blog, a listing for Elephant Rentals.
With an existing website and a strong brand and logo already in place, I simply had to adjust colors and fonts to match the existing site. For the background image, I had to create a new image using the background of the current site, filling in the middle portion …
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Categories: Blog, Custom Blogs, Web Design.
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November 25th, 2009
One of the most complex and intricate custom blogs I have put together so far was for Jules Bianchi Photography. Like most of my photographers in need of a custom blog, Jules had an existing and well established brand identity with a portfolio site already in place. Her blog however had been on Blogger, where customization and options are limited.
A while back, I had also done a custom splash page for the main site, with links to all of her sites and the blog.
A look at the Splash Page
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May 12th, 2009
WARNING: If you’re not a CSS or WordPress geek, this post could be a little boring and tech-heavy to you. You can read the quick and easy version here. Or…
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Why yet another Free WordPress Theme?
As I have developed more and more sites, I have found myself repeating a lot of steps just to get started. I tried a few themes that other designers have made available with the promise …
TAGS:blogstarter . free downloads . Free WordPress Themes . photoshop templates . web design . WordPress . WordPress Themes . WPJumpStart
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May 9th, 2009
GridStarter is a Photoshop template used to make the initial layout of a new website easier and more efficient.
Through a series of grid overlays, it is possible to very quickly and easily line up page elements and make view them the way they will be seen in a browser. I personally use this on any original design I do and can not remember the time before I used it. It truly transformed the way I approach web design, sped up my design time, and improved my designs in ways that I did not predict….
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March 3rd, 2009
Every so often I get the chance to work on a project that means a lot to me and this one is definitely one of those. Every Monday Matters started as a book, written by Matt Emerzian and Kelly Bozza, highlighting an idea a week for ways to improve your life and the world around you. Think of the word-a-day calendars but this is is an idea-a-week, with things like Learn CPR, Thanking a Firefighter, or just Reading More.
The site has …
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February 14th, 2009
Just a quick screenshot for now. I’m off to Vegas for the WPPI convention, where we are introducing abrand new JulesCafe.com.
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January 29th, 2009
Sauce Creative Group does some great design work for some major brands, including a lot of recent work with Redbull. So when they asked me to help turn their design into a Wordpress site, it was a great opportunity for me – not to mention a chance to just build a site and not worry about the design process myself.
The biggest job I had on this was creating the fading slideshow at the top of every page. I found a sample site that had something similar, but i had to tweak the code to be more flexible. Now …
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October 3rd, 2008
I had a nice surprise in my inbox today.
Apparently Five Day DVD is a featured design on We Love WP (WeLoveWP.com) – a site that showcases custom Wordpress sites.
Only a few days ago, I found the site and browsed all the amazing work on there, getting inspiration and ideas for my own designs. They had a section where you could submit your own site, let them know about it and if they like it, they would include it on their page.
Well, I guess they did, because here it is:
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