Hey! Remember that post about the new site for The New School? Well that site is now nominated for a Webby! I am super pumped about that...just being nominated is a pretty big deal. As I mentioned in my previous post, tons of people worked super hard on this site (check them out). While I am hoping for the juried prize to come our way, there is also a People's Choice award, so if you feel so inclined, please go vote for us. In other project news, I just launched designer Karol Miekina's new portfolio site. Her design of the site is fantastic and turning it into a responsive wordpress theme was a lot of fun. In about a week and a half I will be starting a new full time position at Sanborn Media Factory as a Front End Developer. I'm a little sad to leave The New School, but super ...

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It has been way too long since my last update, but work has been busy and thus, this site has been less active. The site hasn't been completely inactive, however. The Isotope/Wordpress post continues its popularity, and I have made sure to reply to all questions/comments and help as I can and I have updated the portfolio with a bunch of new stuff that has launched in recent months. The New School Front-end development (css, javascript, html) and responsive framework. Design by Alexandra Ståhlberg and Elizabeth Kuehnen. Brighter Lights Media Responsive website design and WordPress theme development Dead Presidents Lounge Responsive website design and WordPress theme development Bantie Responsive wordpress theme development for Bantie. Site design by Dalston ...

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So it's been months since I've updated because I have been so damn busy. Need to add a bunch of new crap to the portfolio and blog about a bunch of fun new projects I have been working on, but in the meantime, here is a quick post about how to style html lists without using images to get custom bullets. I am excited about this because it's so simple, I am shocked I never thought to do it before. I also love pure CSS solutions. So you are making a list in your web page and want to use a different type of bullet than the standard disc. So you have to set the list-style-type to "none" and add a background image, right? Not anymore! If the character you want to use for your list bullet is a standard character (some usual suspects: /, >, -, ;, etc), you can just use psuedo-elements in ...

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Anyone who has developed for wordpress will tell you - setting up auto publishing for Facebook and Twitter is not fun. Sure, there are plenty of plugins available to do this for you. Some are even pretty great - like Simple Facebook Connect, which puts in all the fun header code that makes Facebook happy, as well as a slew of other features. But there are still annoying issues with users losing authentication, forgetting to login to Facebook to connect to the app, posts simply not showing up because of video embeds, etc. Granted, a lot of this stems from Facebook's api being a big headache, but try to explain that to a client and all they hear is "I can't make it work." On the twitter side, things are a little less buggy, but the biggest issue is that no plugins will tweet scheduled ...

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What a stupid post title. But, despite my lack of creativity in branding this post, April has been productive. So here is a recap of some of the more interesting items that hit (or have been started) this past month. Some new Parsons projects went live, a fun responsive page build for Atlantic Records went up, and the new design for the Dead Presidents Lounge was approved. (Visit post page for screenshots of everything mentioned).   Dead Presidents Lounge Website Design Deadpreztattoo.com is overdo for a facelift and with some pretty exciting PR for them on the horizon, we figured now was the best time to do it. This site will be a wordpress site, responsive, and feature much more timely updates than their current site allows (including an Instagram feed and a blog). The ...

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