Recent Projects

Recent design projects and things I’ve learned.

A Work in Progress

My own personal website is continually and will probably always be a work in progress. If you have visited before, you might wonder why I change my theme so frequently. There are a few reasons, actually. Continue reading

Sneak Preview of BookRoom Reviews

I’ve been busily working on a site redesign and reorganization for BookRoom Reviews. Here’s a little preview of what it will look like when it’s finished. I still have this new design on a test platform, so if you go… Continue reading

Personalized Business Card Design

This is the customized business card design I just did for Heather Mitchel, an independent consultant for Thirty One Gifts. Heather wanted an eye-catching business card that would be able to include all of the necessary information on it as well as a personal picture without looking too cluttered. Continue reading

Free Rustic Word Press Blog Theme

My rustic WordPress theme has been the most searched term by far on my site, so I decided to create a new, updated rustic theme that is WordPress 3.0 compliant. Continue reading

Clean and Modern Black and Green WP Theme

I’ve finally gotten around to posting another free theme! This one is a theme I just did for someone, so it’s WP 3.0 compliant. The image below is a screen shot of the working theme, and has the following features:

  • Two Column Design
  • One Column Page Template also included as a check box option for each page.
  • Sidebars include right sidebar, top sidebar, bottom sidebar, and dynamically widgetized footer
  • Valid XTML
  • Horizontal Menu (works great with new customizable menu found in WP)
  • Vertical Menu also available if desired within the theme
  • Built in Social Icons
  • Built in div for Header Logo or Graphic

Let me show you what you’ll need to know in order to download this theme and edit the Header and personalize your social icons. Continue reading

New WordPress Features!

I’m loving the newest version of WordPress and the newest Artisteer upgrade as well that perfectly meshes with WordPress! The new features that I especially like are the new Menu options as well as the new Featured Image option. Continue reading

A Fresh Look

I decided to give my blog a much needed face lift. However, now is really not the best time for me to do this as there are a million other projects to be done right now. So, this will be a slow update. I definitely need to simplify things on the site, and aim to do that. Some recent design projects I’ve done are the following:

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Two Great WordPress Plugins

As I was working on redesigning theStock411 WordPress blog, I implemented two fantastic WordPress plugins. One of these plugins is WP-Sticky. I’ve known about this plugin for a while, but had never used it. It’s a nice simple way to keep one post at the top of your blog at all times. Now, there are a couple of items to note if you are using this plugin after creating your theme in Artisteer: You must change a tiny bit of php if you want to hide the date. I found a couple of forums that had parts of the following information:

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Recent Projects

Well, I’ve been very busy on some projects recently as well as other “life” stuff that have kept me from being able to post as much as I’d like to. I just completed a full WordPress website for a company that I did a WP blog for several months ago. They wanted their whole site transformed and consolidated into one WordPress Site. It was a huge process as I had to set up WordPress in their current hosting location, transfer the old blog over to it, and completely design and add content to their site from top to bottom.

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Logo & Blog Design for Annie Kennedy Photography

I so enjoyed working with Annie from Annie Kennedy Photography as we helped to give her a presence as she starts her new business venture.Annie has a wonderful eye for photography and a great sense of style, so it was easy to come up with a great design that matches her personality that would make sure to draw complete attention to the great photos she takes acting as the centerpiece. Continue reading

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