There is a standing joke with my awesome girlfriend Jenny about me always asking google everything and anything – and like with most good jokes there is some truth to it – I always ask google how to do anything before I give it a shot. Today Google let me down, I asked it how you can use the CSS technique of “sliding doors” with the WordPress menuing system for this project I am working on – and Google was no help!

So – I had to let go of my crutch and figure it out on my own, and, after much Knight Ridering ( another inside joke, I love you P. ) I finally figured it out. Jenny was there for this whole process – and at the end I said – and you know what the best part of this is – and my smart gf said “You can write about it and be the first result in Google for WordPress menu with sliding door css” – is there any doubt why I love her so?

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I’ve been posting about the Shopp WordPress plugin lately, so I thought that I would post the first project that I completed with it and the new framework I have been using – so here it is Neurvana Edge. The code is just a pretty as the site itself . As flexible as Shopp is, I still had to hack it a little to make it do exactly what the client wanted, but in the end I think his custom e-com wordpress theme came out very well indeed.

Hey Now! I have completed the first new custom WordPress theme with the new framework – It was difficult giving up my venerable old framework that took me years to create but it was time for something new, clean, and modern. The results are impressive – it took some time to get up to speed but I am very comfortable with it now and my WordPress themes will now all be fresh and state of the art.

More importantly the client says: “It looks great, Great Job! – The CSS is excellent, I am not going to have any problem if I need to make changes. Your work is excellent. ~ J”

From time to time i get to do some pure design work, and today I got to design some online ads for a carpet cleaner in New Jersey. I used to design banner ads allot, back in the hey-day of banner ads, so this was like a trip down memory lane for me.

If you are interested in hiring me to create some ads for you, or for some design work in general – not to mention a custom wordpress theme, just click on over to the contact form and get in touch with me.

Hey Now, I am very happy to present a new custom WordPress theme – Free to try Offers. Tim said:

Looks awesome! – You’ve really outdone yourself this time. It’s looking beautiful.

I am happy with the way that it is turning out as well – it’s fun creating a funky theme for a good site, and it is always awesome when everyone is happy with the result.

If you are ever looking for a way to make select boxes look the way you want them to instead of the way your OS wants them to, you will have to roll your own if you want your efforts to work on all the browsers out there ( I’m talking to you Internet Explorer… ).

I had good luck with this simple example.

Hey Now – it’s been awhile but here it is – another free WordPress theme for you enjoyment: Danu.

Danu is a free, W3C-compliant, CSS-based WordPress theme featuring: multiple columns for posts, custom background and headers, custom menus, widget support, custom thumbnail images, additional page templates, and much much more… You can see it in action and download it over here.

Ross and I were banging around the idea of a website that looked like the Droid, an Android web UI if you will. I started working on it as soon as he left and came up with something that I though was cool.

Subsequently I was convinced that it didn’t looked like “me”, and since I didn’t really have a client to use it for I decided to turn it loose – free on the interwebs. You can download the free photoshop file here – it’s fairly large ( 20mb ) so don’t click it if you don’t really want it.

You can get the droid fonts here: http://www.google.com/webfonts/specimen/Droid+Sans

Most of my WordPress design work is done for people from far flung places – but I am proud to announce the launch of a localish project – Georgia Orthopedic Resources.

I worked closely with the staff to develop a logo, create the proper branding, design the site, develop the custom WordPress theme, and provided onsite WordPress consulting.

So, even though I spend almost all of my professional time making Custom WordPress Themes, I get a print design gig every once in a while – but I have never gotten to design a wine bottle before!

But thanks to my man Zoran, I got a chance to do just that. Very interesting project with different types of challenges then I was used to.

I think it turned out well, but only once we see it on the bottle will we know for sure.

But the real question is if I will get some of that wine to add to my collection If so, it would be the third client in the last 3 years to send me some wine.

I can design something nice for you too