Over the past month or so I have been redeveloping the website for a small Spanish school in the city of Antigua, Guatemala – Antigua Plaza. I’ve known Ana the owner since the first time I visited Antigua four years ago, and while my wife and I were back in town Ana expressed her interest in […]
NHL.com redesign – First thoughts
Fresh off the All-star break and all of the feel-bad-then-good John Scott stories that came with it, I went searching for my next NHL fix. What game am I going to watch when the regular season continues tomorrow? Low and behold, it looks like the NHL have been hard at work over the weekend to […]
Breaking things down
Daunted by the prospect of many projects sitting incomplete, I’ve found myself lately being pulled in a number of directions. My own personal website, a client project, WordPress plugins & themes that will be used on a number of client projects – although not immediately, helping my wife with our new business venture, and a […]
Centering a full screen background image with CSS
Something I’ve found myself doing a lot of lately is creating websites where I want a single image as the entire page background. All of the page content sits on top, and the image never moves, no matter how much content scrolls down the page. I need it to be responsive and always stay centered, […]
Using the AUSteve-Gallery-preview plugin
To create a new Media Category for a project Go to Media -> Media Categories Use whatever name you like Set a slug that makes sense, lower case letters and hyphens only Add it to a parent category if applicable To upload images for a project Go to Media -> Library -> Add New Select your […]
Displaying images using the AUSteve-Image-Gallery plugin
The austeve-image-gallery plugin is a custom made WordPress plugin I use on all of my portfolio type websites. I have taken special care in ensuring that the plugin is simple to use, but flexible enough to be used on any number of sites. Prerequisite: The ‘Enhanced Media Library‘ plugin by wpUXsolutions is a prerequisite, in […]
Coming soon – Domain registration!
I’m excited to announce that pretty soon I will be set up as a domain name reseller! This will ease the process for setting up brand new clients, as they will be able to purchase their domain through me, and I will then be able to easily configure DNS settings to point to their new […]
Starter WordPress theme development including ZURB Foundation
I was happy to come across a tweet from @WPwatercooler the other day announcing a new starter theme produced by Zeek Interactive that incorporates ZURB Foundation. This is something that I’ve thought would be interesting to do, but I haven’t gotten around to trying to do it myself. I have only ever dealt with child themes, but have known […]
SeeThisSpot – March update (I love Node.js)
A couple of weeks after starting my remake of SeeThisSpot.com, and I think I can say that I’m so so so happy that I’ve done it, and am really excited about how it’s going to turn out. The original see this spot was written in PHP, using the Cake framework, which was 100% new to […]
Deploying a Node.js project with ZURB Foundation to Heroku
So many new things happening! Pretty stoked that I managed to get ZURB’s Foundation working on my Node.js application, my next step was to get the app deployed to Heroku. Until this point I’d only ever deployed a project to Heroku by following and mimicking the ‘Getting Started‘ tutorial. My seethisspot project was already very […]