Step-By-Step: Turning A Design Responsive in WordPress, Part 1
I’ve been dying to try out a real responsive design for awhile now on my site, but didn’t feel like recoding the whole thing. Thankfully, I was able to beg bribe get the fantastic Paul Maloney to redesign my site for me, which gives me the perfect excuse to try out all the new bells and...
Read more…Super Hijinksified – Now With HTML5 Boilerplate
A combination of my Hijinks and HTML5 Boilerplate, all the goodness of a blank WordPress theme with the helpings of HTML5 Boilerplate. Download from Git
Read more…Freelancing: From My Experience
To be a freelancer, your own boss, the master of your own destiny. You can work when you want, you can handpick your work, take time off when you like, have late starts and work in your PJ’s… WRONG! The life of a freelancer might seem somewhat idealistic, but in reality it’s hard work and...
Read more…Best Practices For Coding WordPress Themes
Open up fifty different WordPress themes and you’ll see fifty different ways to code a WordPress theme. While there’s no specific right or wrong way to code and structure your theme, there are several best practices I’d like to point out. Following these can decrease load time, allow you to code faster and allow the...
Read more…Hijinks: A Developer’s Blank WordPress Theme
A lot of people have been asking if I use a framework for WordPress. I use my own custom blankish framework that allows me to quickly get started on projects. I’ve recently cleaned it up with the launch of WordPress 3.0 and thought I’d give it to you guys for free. It’s basically the core...
Read more…Update 2011 Conference Recap
I spent last week in beautiful England attending the Update 2011 Conference, thanks to all of your awesome donations last month. I wanted to make sure that I jotted as many notes and photos as possible for those of you who were unable to make the conference. The conference, put on by Aral Balkan, was...
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