Design

More Bamboo Fun

Published December 18, 2007 | By admin

I swear that one of these days I will have something useful to do with this Wacom Bamboo Fun tablet, but for now it’s like having a million colored pencils in one. Want a rough gradient instead of a computer generated one, then draw it, changing the color and the pencil size gradually as you go.

I have to admit I think that most computer generated images are a little too perfect for my liking. It’s unnatural. Nothing in nature is perfect and computers can only generate simulated imperfections. I like a old fashioned hand drawn cartoon every once in a while. Drawing with Wacom Bamboo Fun Tablet But it seems no one does this any more. Everything is computer generated. Read more... (353 words, 1 image, estimated 1:25 mins reading time)

Posted in Design, Graphics | Tagged bamboo fun, wacom tablet | 7 Comments

Promoting Your Free WordPress Theme

Published December 11, 2007 | By admin

Talk about an increase in traffic and I didn’t have to bribe someone to digg or stumble one of my posts. I was getting really antsy to be finished with this theme at the end so I could see how much traffic a person could get from a WordPress theme. Now I guess I have found out. I have worked off and on with this theme for a couple of months now. And now that it is done, I see many things that I could have done better. But here is what I picked up along the way. Read more... (854 words, 1 image, estimated 3:25 mins reading time)

Posted in Design, Wordpress | Tagged free wordpress theme, submit wordpress theme | 9 Comments

Get My Free WordPress Theme

Published December 7, 2007 | By admin

I figured I would host all of my WordPress experiments on another blog, Renovating WordPress. I am going to be doing a lot with WordPress in the next few months and I figured that while I won’t have enough content to post daily to the blog, the things I will be making available as downloads over there will bring enough traffic in it’s own right. Read more... (233 words, 1 image, estimated 56 secs reading time)

Posted in Blogging, Design, Wordpress | Tagged free wordpress theme, multiple widget theme, multiple widget wordpress theme | 37 Comments

I Don’t See the Difference Between Design and Purpose

Published November 15, 2007 | By admin

I see everything as connected. I don’t see different fields and I don’t believe in specialization. Specialization is for employees. If you want to be a employee, than get a doctorate. You will find a good job.

To do more than that, you need to have a bigger picture.

I see everything I do as putting information in the right order with the right emphasis. Whether I write an article, write software, or design a site. Not that I met that goal every time, but I try. There are bumps and bruises, but I learn from them. Read more... (193 words, 1 image, estimated 46 secs reading time)

Posted in Blogging, Design, Programming | Tagged Design, doctorates, education, specialization, whole picture | Leave a comment

Weekend Wrap Up

Published October 25, 2007 | By admin

My weekend starts tomorrow, but that doesn’t mean less work. I will just be adding more to my normal blogging schedule.

I want to get back over to DoshDosh to read the post about Creating a Prospect List. That blog is so full of information and long posts I should print it out in a book to read. There is just too much there for the minimal attention span I have when reading things on the internet. Read more... (245 words, estimated 59 secs reading time)

Posted in Blogging, Design, Monetize, Website Design, Wordpress | Tagged backgrounds, doshdosh, dreamweaver, onlywire, tagstention, wordpress templates, zanox | 3 Comments

Firefox for Mac Sucks

Published October 18, 2007 | By admin

Short, sweet and to the point. CSS doesn’t look the same. A window pricing calculator I wrote in javascript that works in Safari, IE7, and Firefox for Windows doesn’t work right. Why? I don’t know. But I am not going to spend just as much time writing a seperate calculator. Bring it on, Firefox people.

Update: I was a little bit pissed here, but Firefox for Mac still does not handle javascript calculations correctly.