Its pretty easy to add a loop to a page template but having pagination will … Read More »
March 04
If you’re following me on twitter you should be fully aware that I launched my new theme Saturday night, today I put the final design touches on it.
On Friday I had a simple design idea and with all of the ideas and inspiration that have accumulated over the last 6+ months I was obsessed in getting things cleaned up around here.
Here are some important points and areas of focus:
I still have a laundry list of things to do, some of the biggies:
Back in August I started what I called the “Theme Experiment“, 5 months later and I can honestly say it was a bust. My intent was good – finally re-design the site and force myself to blog the “how-tos”.
The major factor for the experiment’s failure was time. Not only was it because of how busy I have been but how I was forcing myself to spend my time developing and designing. Since my intent was to design and develop in increments, then post about them, I wasn’t able to spend an all nighter or even a few hours implementing an idea. Now that I tried my best to work that way I’ve learned a lesson- I don’t work that way.
I tend to start a project and get into a groove. This time I had a simple design idea and I ended up spending Friday afternoon designing off that idea, then it compounded into an obsession that took my weekend. Of course, I love building off an idea, especially if it’s my own 
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And that’s it, the end of the experiment; throughout the weekend I thought about the possibility of posting some tips and I could say that’s what I’ll be doing that over the next couple weeks, instead I’ll say “it’s very unlikely” you’ll see any how-tos about this theme anytime soon.
At least I have some fresh tires on this thing that I can take for a spin.
I’m a couple days late in writing these but I’ve been thinking about them for a while now.
Most of my 2010 resolutions are centered around my business at Sprout Venture, however, as a “small business” owner I feel my success and dedication effects my family the most. So, while I talk the business talk my family is always first.
.I’m missing a few but these are my primary focuses for 2010.
A 2009 review should be following this post shortly, I know a little backwards but I have a lot of projects to gather and link.
Similar to how GDGT.com has it’s loading.gif while the page completes this method will do … Read More »
November 03
Over the last couple days I’ve had the dilemma of trying to figure out how … Read More »
October 21
One of the very first things I had to do to start using the … Read More »
August 26
A while back ( at least 2 years ago ) I had the idea of taking the process of theme development live on this blog.
Now that I’m almost ready to re-do this site–it’s time to improve my original idea and do it.
The Plan:
What to expect:
I’m not sure when I’ll start, probably before the end of July but I expect the process to take a few weeks. Throughout that time this site should drastically change every day. I’ll try to take as many shots throughout the process in case you missed anything .
The Process:
I’m really hoping for feedback through the process–especially when it comes down to functionality and layout. It’s important that feedback will drive the design since I’m releasing the theme, I wont be committed to anything, so we might see three different homepage layouts before it’s ready for design and functionality.
So far…
I only have a few ideas for the homepage and WordPress sections. If you have any ideas comment away, remember that the scope of the project is to re-do this site so don’t expect me to do everything but if it’s a good idea I may include it in the public release.
Updates:
Here’s a simple trick I’ve been using to include an ad after the second post, … Read More »
January 18
Woke up this morning to a bunch of pingdom emails stating my site has been down. Turns out there’s either a security vulnerability with WP 2.7 or one of my plugins since my options table went from a few megs to over 2 gigs.
The excess size caused mysql to sh*% itself.
I can’t research the issue, since (mt) has locked the table and is researching the issue right now.
All I could do is recover a backup from an old backup to a new db then import the missing posts from the offending db. There’s still some quirks, like comments but it looks like intense debate figured out what to do there.
I’ll update this post when I figure this out. I sure hope it’s some bad code from a recent plugin update rather than a security issue. Regardless, I’ll need to look into this further.
