Archive for November, 2006
4 idiot-proof ways to make your blog look cool
I started doing freelance design by focusing all my energy on blog design. Almost every blog is essentially the same - posts, sidebars, maybe a navigation, and maybe some advertising. How do you distinguish a well designed blog from the rest? The answer is obvious - do things that separate your blog […]
Saying no isn’t easy
When I first started freelancing I was willing to take just about any work that came my way. In the past few months though I’ve been getting more work requests than I have time for. It’s difficult to change my mindset from saying yes to anything to telling someone “No, sorry, I don’t […]
How to setup WordPress locally on your Mac
If you work with WordPress on a regular basis you really need to setup Apache, MySQL, PHP, and WordPress on your machine - it makes developing themes, plug ins, and new blogs much simpler and (almost) all of your mistakes can be fixed before you go live.
Before you can install WordPress you need to install […]
It’s Beat M*ch*g*n week
If you’re a fan of sports, any sport really, then you know how big the rivalry is between Ohio State University and our neighbors enemies to the north. It borders on the edge of psychotic, really.
Taking a job
Before I had finished the b5media redesign Aaron was already asking me if I was interested in more work. Being a student, money disappears from my bank account relatively quickly, so how can I turn down some more money?
Live redesign in progress
I uploaded what I have of a theme so far - it’s going to be pretty broken and pretty ugly until I finish it. I am doing a “live redesign” type of thing. I actually just got sick of looking at the fake content on my local server and decided that a database […]
