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Archive for November, 2011

December 2011 Desktop Calendar Wallpaper

November 30, 2011

It’s December! The halls have been decked, the nights silent, etc etc. With those stereotypes comes this (hopefully non-stereotypical) December 2011 Desktop Calendar Wallpaper. I was wearing an awesome Christmas-y sweater when I sat down to make this up; that’s where the inspiration for the pattern comes from (if you were interested). Anyway, enough rambling. Download the wallpaper in whatever size you desire below!

Click to download the free December 2011 Desktop Calendar Wallpaper in 2560X1600, 1920X1200, 1680X1050, 1440X900 and 1280X800 pixels.

Designing a Client-Focused WordPress Site

November 22, 2011

This past weekend, we held WordCamp Edmonton. It was the first time it came through our wintry city, and it went off swimmingly! On top of organizing it, I also spoke on a couple of subjects near and dear to my heart. One of these presentations was titled Designing a Client-Focused WordPress Site. Click the image below to view the presentation.

Feedback for the presentation was positive, so I thought it might be worthwhile to share the slides on this here blog. In the presentation below, I cover the following…

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Found Friday Vol 74

November 18, 2011

After a brief hiatus last week, we’re back with Vol 74 of Found Fridays. This week’s web finds include: GridBooks for sketching out your wireframes; the A List Apart Web Design survey; a great plugin that will auto-load plugins when you set up WordPress; a dead-simple way to make HTML5 video & audio work cross-browser; and a secret passageway switch (it was too cool to not share).

GridBooks

Wireframing makes projects more efficient and makes me focus on content & usability. These GridBooks look to be a great tool for sketching out web design wireframes.

A List Apart – Web Design Survey 2011

Every year A List Apart has a survey with the intent to get a good look into the state of professional web design across the globe. If you consider yourself a professional web designer or developer, head on over and fill out the survey!

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Found Friday Vol 73

November 4, 2011

73 seems like an absurd number. I don’t know what else in my life I have done 73 times. Anyway, this week’s Found Friday includes some great finds, as always: a great article/tutorial on designing a responsive site; a sweet combo charger for us Apple nerds; a site that shows a bunch of logos created strictly in CSS (with code); some touchscreen-compatible winter gloves; and a “fish hotel” so even your fish can be stylin’.

How to Design a Mobile Responsive Website

A lengthy but easy-to-grasp article on mobile responsive website design. If you have any questions about responsive design, read this article. It’ll help immensely.

PlugBug

Yes. Yes, I am tired of carrying a MacBook and iPhone/iPad charger every time I leave the house. What’s that, you say? You’ve combined the two into some sort of magical dual charging device?

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