Announcing Cozy- a new FREE child theme for Thematic

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As promised, I’ve designed a new WordPress child theme for Thematic based on a design I did for my own blog. It’s called Cozy and it’s FREE! Cozy comes with four different color schemes, each with it’s own custom header. For more information and the download head over to the Cozy demo.

New free theme in the works

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I just put together a new design for my personal blog, Banannie. I’d been thinking of doing a Halloween theme for my blog, then I remembered Pink for October which encourages folks to pink out their sites to show their support for breast cancer awareness. So it’s pink with a cute little pink ghost. I’ve [...]

Using Thesis for WordPress Theme Design

You may or may not have noticed that things look a little different around here. One of the things about being a web designer is you tend to use your own site to try things out. In this case I built this new design off the premium Thesis theme framework. There are pros and cons [...]

WordPress turns five today

WordPress rocks. I’ve been using it for almost four of the five years it’s existed, and while it may on occasion cause me to yank hair from my head, more often it surprises me with some little wizbang neato thing. Go visit my friend Christian’s site. He just moved to WordPress and he’s pretty darn [...]

How to plan ahead to save time, money, and get a great design

The initial discussions I have with clients about what they want often go in circles. I have to accept some blame for this, because if I don’t ask the right questions I can’t expect the answers I need. It’s also important for clients to put in some thought and do a bit of homework before [...]

What I mean by “Web Presence”

In the early days of the Internet there was no consistent terminology. The terms website (or web site) and web presence (or Internet presence) were used interchangeably, meaning “a collection of files located at a particular web address.” It wasn’t long before the term website took hold and web presence became much less common. It [...]