I have no problem doing design for clients – because I always have an outside perspective. Designing for your own site is kind of like… giving advice. You can give advice to other people but often not to yourself. It’s all about perspective. For a…
Category: Design
Here are a couple of nice themes from the web community today: Ambient Glo 1.5 Fixed (Demo, Download). Fluid (Demo, Download). A very nice 3 column theme that has the option to be either fixed or fluid width. Good use of color and white space.…
The judging is over, the results are in, and now every WordPress/Sandbox fan has new designs to play with! I enjoyed being a judge for this competition, though it was definitely not easy to pick which my favorites were out of 46 submitted designs. Huge…
CollegeScholarships.org is running a WordPress design competition that is ending soon (August 13, 2007). The winning designer will be awarded a $5,000 scholarship for their college education! That is a significant amount and it is a great way to show off your design skills. The…
When did the W3C do this? Must have been fairly recent because I noticed right away. Definitely looks snazzy. ~Nicole
I ran across a new WordPress theme (Isolated) that takes a nice approach to using Mootools accordion code, and integrating it into a WordPress theme. I have always thought that accordion style sections can look really slick, and I love Mootools, and I think the…
It is that time of year again. Time for me to start trimming down scripts and elements in my blog to get the most out of the space and loading time. It’s sort of like spring cleaning, except that it seems to happen every season.…
Definitely doesn’t seem easy, but there is a tutorial from ModMyiPhone that shows you how. Hopefully, there will be much more simple approaches in the future. ~Nicole
This question comes to the fore of my mind in light of a recent ‘glitch’ involving my website. The glitch was entirely my own fault. A few days ago I noticed that my sub-domains weren’t showing up. This was obviously of some concern to me…
If you have followed along through Step 1, then you have the HorizMenu.psd file to continue with. To refresh your memory, we left off with our HorizMenu looking like this: Now, you may be wondering why that extra space is there at the bottom. Why…