I’m fascinated by the whole horizontal-scrolling idea, especially for portfolios, but don’t feel it meets my own desires for this site. Nonetheless, I just had to dig in and create a working horizontally-scrolling Wordpress theme. So I present to you Sideways Portfolio. Here are some brief points… Read the rest of this article »
UPDATE: Thanks to all who have commented, but I’ve now made the theme FREE for everyone. Thanks! Read the rest of this article »
Teamflix helps school athletic programs by providing a means of video-taping sporting events, collecting the film and selling DVD’s via its (soon-to-be) ecommerce site. The logo was designed by Jeff Chadd and I developed the site on Wordpress and will soon be integrating a full-scale shopping cart system.
Over at my other design blog, Creative Cox, I’ve published a list of Wordpress resources. Pass along or add to the stack yourself. Enjoy!
Breadcrumbs are a great way to give people a perspective of where they are on your site. You can easily add them via several good plugins (my favorite is Yoast Breadcrumbs), but sometimes you want to build breadcrumbs into a theme without using a plugin, especially if you’re releasing it to the public. This was what I needed to do with my latest latest WordPress theme. So here’s what I did… Read the rest of this article »
Visit Online: www.llbaptist.com
Lindsay Lane Baptist Church in Florissant, Missouri was in need of a logo and website design, along with a content management system so that they could easily add information and articles to their web site. The logo concept is based on the image of a lane leading people to the cross, where lives are changed. The web site is warm and personal and offers multiple easy entryways into basic information about the church for any first time site visitor, which is the primary target audience. The site is built on WordPress.
Talk about a success story. WordPress began six years ago today as a result of a simple discussion at Matt Mullenweg’s web site about the need for a GPL-licensed blogging tool.
Since then, the WordPress community has flourished and the founders and maintainers have been highly successful in the consulting business. There are vast numbers of great plugins that extend the functionality of the platform. There are numerous well-designed themes available for use. And the platform has certainly expanded to the point that it qualifies as a full-blown content management system. Read the rest of this article »
Visit Online: www.dynamicpet.net
Frick’s Meats (site coming soon) operates Dynamic Pet Products as a great way to preserve what would otherwise be wasted. They take the bones from their meat products and market them as dog treats and sell them at major retailers. I did not design the logos at the top of the page. The site itself is built on WordPress to allow easy content editing and to be consistent with their other site projects. It was designed to be colorful, yet small-scaled and simple to edit on the backend.
I’ve recently launched a little fun project over at WP for Ministry. It’s intended to be a gallery of churches, ministries, pastors, and even Christian web designers using WordPress to power their sites. The theme for WP for Ministry is an Elegant Theme. Feel free to offer a submission with a screenshot and a description.
