As you may have noticed, I have been working on this site live for several weeks. This seems to be the most organic way for me to make adjustments and I like the slow-evolution idea very much. I will be making more tweaks, including adding comments back into the template, and using the custom fields in wordpress with more intent and purpose. (more…)
This is a little hack that I hobbled together after reading Web Designers Wall and realizing that pulling stuff out of the database in my own little loop shouldn’t be that Bad. This is neither a. Xhtml standards compliant, or b. a good idea so use at your own risk. Sometime in the near future, I will worry about making this site Standards compliant, but I have about 8 things ahead of that project, and every single one of them will either complicate or ease the transition to Xhtml/CSS badge-worthy status.
In case anyone wanted to know how I did my Categories when there is not a wp call for it.
After years of dodging web design and focusing on print design, my wife and I gave up on Charleston and moved to my hometown. What does that have to do with web design? Well, my family business is Jewelry & Gifts. Time and again my Mother has asked me to build a viable, interesting website for the business. As we are in Romney now, I thought it would be a good time to give it some attention. Web design is like quicksilver, always moving, changing, and very hard to nail down. There are some constants like CSS, and there are some waypoints like A List Apart, so the basics were pretty clear. 3 books and constant printing of site after site and I felt I was ready to get started. (more…)
