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PSDTuts Recently put up a tutorial called “How to Create a Hellacious Flaming Skull in Photoshop” , which is a valuable skill to have for any web designer in my opinion, especially if there are a lot of metal bands in your area. I decided to follow the tutorial and see how I could do.

If you ever want to design your own wordpress theme, you used to only have two options: open up a free theme like cutline or the default and start editing, or start coding from scratch. I always though coding from scratch was a real waste of time, since so much of the code is going to be the same in any WordPress theme. That’s why I created the WP Core theme. It’s been a handy tool for myself, and now I’m releasing it, and I hope it will be a help to all of you too.

Headers, footers, and sidebars are one of the first things to consider when putting a website design together. It can be tough deciding which ones to use, and how to use them. There aren’t really “wrong” choices here, but some are better for some things and others. There are three main things that people want [...]

In my previous post about the Options Wordpress Theme, I mentioned how I always thought Fret Feed would work better in a magazine-style format, and I was considering using Options as a basis for the re-design. Well, it’s been done. Now I’d like to talk a little a bit my thoughts & processes for the [...]

Developers and Designers have an old saying: “Don’t reinvent the wheel”. People shouldn’t waste their time re-coding things that have already been done. I toyed around with the idea of making a “Press++” theme for Wordpress, which would be a theme that would turn Wordpress into a more robust CMS, and add a lot of [...]

Today I finally decided to dive into the wild world that is JavaScript. I had finally read enough about this spiffy JavaScript frame called JQuery to give it  a shot. JQ is more a replacement for JavaScript that it is a an add-on, and provides quite a bit of functionality.

Magazine style looking blogs have been all the rage lately, and one of the best ways to enchance the look of your blog and give it this look is by adding thumbnails to your posts.  As you can see, I’ve added the functionality to this blog, and now I’ll show how you can make a [...]

As you can see, this blog recently underwent a facelift. It’s not as drastic as the last time I updated this blog, but I was toying with it, wanted to give it a cleaner look, and ended up with this. I figured it would be an interesting look at the design process to examine the [...]

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