This is a companion piece to WP Admin Branding: Now that you’ve designed your WP admin panel to fit your client’s branding, you want to hide most of WordPress’ admin menu options, so that the client doesn’t muck up the site, have a look at Barun Singh’s Custom Admin Menu for Wordpress. [via All Forces, again]
So you wanna create a blog/news/magazine site for one of your clients with Wordpress as CMS. You wanna brand the WP admin as well (so your client feels at home), but this has been hard in the past. All that’s changed: Josh Byers brings it with a Wordpress Custom Admin Branding plugin. [via All Forces]
Hold on to your hats folks, some people are starting to use a Lightbox rip-off to deliver ads, and there’s no pop-up blocker that works for it (yet). what a way to misappropriate an interesting piece of code.
Revolution Theme and Revolution News Theme are two magazine style layout themes for WordPress. Both themes are well designed and coded, the idea is to take the themes and add your own styling and ’sparkle’. A good jumping off point to making your WP site less default WP-like. A word of note: I think his pricing is shortsighted and prohibitively expensive. Que lastima!
Reed Danziger has some gorgeous paintings. I love the abstract textures and little touches. His work definitely has a passing analog/digital discourse with the work of Joshua Davis. The difference being that Danzinger creates his compositions by hand, whereas Davis uses programming to create his. [via Art/Moco]
QBN Sessions was a few weeks ago and snippets of the presentations have hit the web. One snippet in particular caught my attention. That of Graphic Designer / Programmer Joshua Davis (his work). It really interested me to hear him explain how he essentially compartmentalizes the various processes in his work, I’d definitely like to see the full presentation. [via everywhere]
Hi, my name is Ed. I’m a graphic designer who lived in L.A. I quit my job, sold my car, rented out my house and moved to Mexico. Along the way, I learned how to surf and fell in love. This is my story.