Earlier in the year, a well known premium wordpress theme developer(Nathan Rice) announced that he would be embarking on an open source wordpress theme project and that he was looking for designers who wanted to collaborate with him. Of course as a wordpress nut I jumped at the opportunity and offered my services. I whipped […]
Blogging
Blog Action Day 08 Tackles Poverty
Some of you might have heard about Blog action day last year. It’s an annual event setup by Envato (ex eden creations) to motivate bloggers to focus on a specific issue on a specific day by blogging about it in whatever way they see fit. By doing so bloggers worldwide created hype around environmental issues […]
A few ways Firefox rocks my day
I’ve used Firefox for years & it’s grown into a real gem of a tool. Not so much for it’s standards support, but due to a great community of add-on developers. It’s also just geekishly cool & makes a huge difference in my day as a designer, developer, blogger & general surfer. A Few Reasons […]
WPREMIX theme gets a well deserved overhaul
A few weeks ago you may have noticed a very disgruntled post on my blog regarding a theme I purchased. The Theme is called WPremix and since my post a number of developments have taken place. Firstly R. Bhavesh, the theme developer responded to my post and refunded my purchase. We then started a discussion […]
Proud of my XHTML & WordPress students’ progress
I’m so proud of the guys who have taken my basic HTML course I have been teaching at Friends of Design college in Cape Town. Friends of Design is a hip new design & web college based in Cape Town. They have quickly made a name for themselves and I believe are set to change […]
WordPress keeps going, WP 2.6 is well on it’s way
One of the great things about wordpress is the speed at which it has developed over the last few years from a simple blogging platform to a much more advanced system that can be used as a CMS as well. WordPress 2.6 Beta has been released with a few minor updates and functional improvements. Ryan […]