Tag Archives: design

Out Now: “Build Your Own Wicked WordPress Themes” Book!

Out Now: “Build Your Own Wicked WordPress Themes” Book!

Available Now! The book that I had been working on a few months ago has finally been published! Working with the incredible group of Allan Cole, Raena Jackson Armitage & Jeffrey Way, we’ve put together a book that takes you from start to finish with designing, building, and selling WordPress themes. Take a minute to  Read more »

Bonus Project: Ancient Lightsaber

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December is always a pretty exciting time for me – mainly because it means that I have some extra time to spend on my own personal projects. As many of you know, I’ve been finishing up some courses at Cal Poly Pomona’s design department. My latest class, a course on Technical Illustration, tasked me with  Read more »

Atlantica for WordPress (Light and Dark)

Atlantica for WordPress (Light and Dark)

May has been an unexpectedly busy month for – I’m working on a few big (and fun) projects that I can’t really say too much about yet, and I’m also completing an intense marketing course at Cal Poly with a graduate student (which is turning out to be incredibly educational). I don’t have much to  Read more »

Iconic Wins the Nettuts.com 1Yr Contest!

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In an apparently neck and neck race, Iconic pulled ahead to win the Anniversary Template Contest at Nettuts.com!!! I was a little shocked that I won – not because I didn’t work incredibly hard on the design, coding, marketing, support, and updates for Iconic, but because there were so many other great, high quality templates  Read more »

Back from Santa Cruz + Iconic Theme

Back from Santa Cruz + Iconic Theme

After a week up in NorCal, I’m back in my office and getting back into the work rhythm. While I was out, NetTuts posted my “Ultimate Web UI Kit” in one of their blog posts! I also officially began some work to a) release a few new theme designs & b) get the Concept theme  Read more »

Bad Design: Fate or Negligence?

The recent redesign of Facebook (in addition to a client that simply insisted that I adapt his design for a Myspace page), has prompted some curious morbidity on my part. Admittedly, this whole topic of the beauty of social networking design is completely missing the point – the purpose of these apps is to drive  Read more »

Concept, an ultra clean web layout

Concept, an ultra clean web layout

This past week I was pretty stoked to find a few spare moments to finish up work on a new web template that I’ve been working on. The “Concept” theme is a clean & stylish layout designed to promote anything from a corporate business to a portfolio site. It comes in three color ‘flavors’ to  Read more »

The Ultimate Web UI Kit

The Ultimate Web UI Kit

I bring you the “Ultimate Web UI Kit“. Oh sure, the word ultimate is far overused nowadays, but honestly, I’m pretty sure if you’re a web designer who’s done more than one project that included mocking up a page with a lot of form fields, you’ll agree that this kit is long overdue. Over the  Read more »