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Shots from around Florence Italy
August24th10Posted in Design Inspiration, Things of interest Tagged Firenze, Florence, Graffiti, Italia, italy Leave a comment
Website Re-design
August24th10Just finished a web-site redesign.
Well I say finished there is still one more page to add. The process page which I have had some big ideas for but will take a bit of time and the Client wants the other changes up as soon as possible so I guess it will have to wait.
Check it out at www.ecotimberframesystems.co.uk
The problem I had to over come with this project was massive amounts of text that I had to incorporate into the design without it looking bad. Let me know what you’s think and if I can make some changes.
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Setting up a Flyer for Print
August17th10How to set up a flyer for print.
I was making a quick flyer as usual to a tight turn around ( 1hr ahhhhhh) and wanted to help people out in the same position. So here is a few simple but important points to speed up the process and keep those pesky clients happy.
Make Your Own WordPress Child Theme: Part 3
August03rd10How to use functions to move navigation sidebars and add elements to your Child Theme.
Step 3:
We have used thematic as a base so we dont have to worry about building the theme from scratch. But how do we have full control over the theme so we can have the navigation where we want or add sections into the footer and sidebar?
Thematic is fully equipped with scores of functions and hooks that we can utilize to insert content and grab sections and move them to around the page. We would nomraly use CSS to do this but its a little harder when setting up a theme.
Start by downloading the THEMATIC STRUCTURE Courtesy of Bluemandala.
This shows us clearly the structure of the thematic framework and what functions we need to make use of to move sections and content around. It is also useful for showing us the CSS div selectors we can make use of later to style our theme.
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Inspirational Italian Logo Designs
July28th10Logo’s from the street’s of Florence
Inspirational Logos
I was amazed at the number of unique logo’s that I saw when I was in Italy. Here a a few samples of the best that I spotted all from the amazing city of Florence. I am going to use one or two for inspiration on a few of my up coming projects. Hopefully you will be inspired like me.
Posted in Design Inspiration, Things of interest Tagged Florence, italy, logo, logo inspiration Leave a comment
Make Your Own WordPress Child Theme: Part 2
July13th10Part 2: Getting to grips with the Thematic theme
We are going to start the next part of the tutorial by experimenting with THEMATIC and finding out how it works so we can understand and get a better result. Before we can start creating the look we want whilst using THEMATIC as a base we need to do a couple of things, to make editing easier later on.
Step 1
The first is to if you dont have it already is to download FIREFOX and to add the add-on tool called FIREBUG. I have found this the easiest way to edit the css live and see exactly what changes you make and what effect this has on your creation.
Once you have these downloaded open up firefox type in the URl for your website and we should see the default theme active. At the bottom right click on the small grey bug. This will activate the firebug plug in and you should have a screen like this.
Step 2
Click on the css tab and click edit. Now you will be able change the layout and look for the site by changing the linked CSS code.
Posted in Things of interest, Uncategorized, Wordpress Tagged custom wordpress theme tutorial., Thematic, wordpress tutorial 3 Comments
Illustration Experiment Pixel Characters
July05th10
Pixel Friends
Here is a new illustrative piece I have had in my mind to do for a while. Using the tokidoki characters I converted into pixels earlier.
Now I have tested the style time to create my own characters using the same enlarged pixel technique. and try different layouts and colors.
Any Thoughts?
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Make your own wordpress Child Theme:
June30th10Part 1: Introduction
How to make your own costumed wordpress theme that is SEO compatible and fully widget compatible etc is something that will make you pull your hair out for none developers.
Until I came across THEMATIC. THEMATIC is a “free, open-source, highly extensible, search-engine optimized WordPress Theme Framework featuring 13 widget-ready areas, grid-based layout samples, styling for popular plugins, and a whole community behind it. It’s perfect for beginner bloggers and WordPress development professionals”.
Its a theme framework that is perfect for customization without all the need to create a theme from scratch.
The theme that comes with the download is in its own a minimalist theme that blows the socks of any free wordpress theme out there. It comes pre-loaded with several CSS layouts to make use of. 2 column 3 column and 2 separate colour and schemes. All of which are fully usable but I am going to show you how I made the theme you are looking at on this page. With your own styling and design.
Jon Burgerman
June21st10I have admired Jon Burgermans artwork and illustrative style ever since I discovered him a few years ago. Hailing from Nottingham, UK. He studied art foundation in Bournville College. And then Fine Art at Nottingham Trent University.
He has worked on projects as varied as Pepsi and Sony
to Museums computer arts and more recently artwork for a iphone app made by Ustwo.
I have recently Purchased this app watch out for a review very soon
He set up his brand BURGER which is where he works on his own projects purely led by what he wants to do. This is a great way of keeping commercial and personnel work separate.
Posted in Design Inspiration, Inspirational Designers, Things of interest Tagged Electrik sheep, Jon Burgerman 2 Comments
Photoshop Tutorial Rustic Background
August26th10Old fashioned Rustic Photoshop Tutorial
Got a brief through for a new bar opening called Buffalo Joes and they wanted a Rustic Cowboy theme Promotion of Posters, Menu and flyers. In the photoshop tutorial I am going to show you the process I went through to create the background to be used in the Menu and Poster.
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