September 2010
1 post
June 2010
1 post
March 2010
10 posts
Fuck Wordpress
I’m sorry but I feel like it’s counter productive to spend time hacking something to try to make it accommodate features I can easily find in another CMS. Wordpress is overwhelmingly designed in favor of blogging.
My clients wanted to stick to wordpress since that’s what their used to, but I guess my skills in PHP manipulation and hacking can’t quite accommodate the...
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design
Being a web designer isn’t that hard… It just takes time.
How To Create a WordPress Theme: The Ultimate... →
I’ve decided to focus on Wordpress theme development this spring while I explore deeper into Design theory and fundamentals. The tutorial by Themeshaper.com is essential and a very practical beginning to shape my understanding. Now I can get my feet muddy right away.
+ Check out The Art of Code podcast for PHP intro that makes absolute sense.
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CMS me today
Too much to do today. Reading is over taking my life.
I have to finish learning how to develop sites under the Modex CMS. Thank god for The Coding Pad. I feel like Modex is the most versatile and lightweight CMS to create sites I will maintain on my own.
However, I have to devote a lot of my attention to Wordpress right away. I’m not naturally drawn to it as a CMS, particularly since...
“A heavy, damp stillness lies over the house. I look around, standing...”
– Haruki Murakami, Kafka On the Shore
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Running on rails
Posting again. The first in a long time. My attention has been on a wave that it’s finally falling off from and landing back onto sandy earth.
I woke up today to read the Journal of Neuroscience online and I was assaulted by how much better a browser firefox truly was. Since I’m finally past the introduction phase of web design I am interested in learning web application framework...
January 2010
3 posts
Break my code
Just when I think my my progress in coding my layout can continue unfettered, I get hit with the inevitable problem of my design breaking when user text is resized. If only I could stick with pixels. Now I am hit with another hurdle. I have been coding for 3 hours (yes I am still a novice) and it is finally 90% done. I was almost anticipating uploading the finished product sometime tonight when...
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CMS Toothache
Over the last few weeks I seem to have been neglecting my work, thanks to the holidays and the subsequent dead weeks, however I have been silently, yet efficiently working on my projects. My site is slowly taking shape in HTML from it’s PSD layout. It’s such a fun process to create something in that medium. It will be great to soon be able to relate (maybe in a tutorial) how I was able to create...
December 2009
3 posts
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Today's lesson in Slicing.
On the top of my list, in topics to learn for web design, is slicing PSD files and how to code them. Slicing always seemed like such a challenging yet must learn aspect of web design. I, along with anyone new to CSS, find it hard to visualize and transform layouts into their complete coded forms.
Today I finally found the tutorial on slicing I have been searching for. Nettuts gives a...
My first Post.
Since I’ve desided to start my blog prior to formating the design, I have to create some content. unfortunatly, my ability to code superseeds my pasion to write. I am so exsided to write this post actually. I haven’t created anything interesting in a while, maybe two days. So this post is a culmination of a lot of planning.
<p> Beginning My Process</p>
To begin my design...