Hitting the Wall

Here is a question I poise to all of the designers out there, and not just web or graphic designers. What do you do when you have seemed to hit a wall or block?
I ended up making 3 different mock-ups tonight in Photoshop and basically, I hated them all. I’m trying to do something fresh [...]

Ted Stevens: Thanks for proving us right

Yesterday, the longest serving senator in the US Senate had a really bad day, and thats saying a lot for someone who I am surprised can find his way out of bed in the morning.
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Is Cuil Cool?

Let’s all think back a little bit here. A decade ago, when you wanted to search for something on the Web, you actually had to search. Google wouldn’t have what you were looking for because Google didn’t exist yet. Yahoo was still more of a directory at the time. I think in 1998 I was [...]

Google Gives Up On Digg

As reported on TechCrunch, Google has decided to walk away from the proposed deal with Digg. Once again, this is from TechCrunch, so you sort of have to wonder about Michael Arrington’s sources. However, I am glad for both parties that Google decided to walk away from this deal.
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Looking Back on the Social Media Love-In

Earlier in the week, Problogger had we he called a “Social Media Love-In“. A lot of Problogger’s readers are all cut from the same cloth, so we all exchanged addresses for our social media websites. I knew I would find some new friends and some new blogs, but a few days later, it’s obvious it [...]

Blech…..Silly Analytics

I had to revert the design of the page back as all the tools I use for analytics stopped picking up. All of the necessary codes are where they are supposed to be, yet nothing is picking up. I’ll keep this theme for a few more days as I won’t really have time to look [...]

New Site Design

Just letting everyone know about the new site design. I am technically working on the next version of the sites look, but I wanted to change it up a bit for a while.
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CSS Techniques: Using Sliding Doors with Wordpress Navigation

Hack WordPress has a fantastic tutorial about how to implement the Sliding Doors technique with WordPress. It is one of those little things that can really breathe some life and a more organic feel to your blog.
CSS Techniques: Using Sliding Doors with Wordpress Navigation
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New Look for BLM Coming Soon

Well, I’ve just have some testing to do later tonight on it, but hopefully by tomorrow I will have the new design for the site up. I did it completely from scratch, and I am sort of using it as a holdover theme. I have a really sweet design I have been sketching out but [...]

WordPress Theme Viewer (Finally) Updated

After what’s been months, the WordPress Theme Viewer has been updated to look and work just like the rest of WordPress.org. When I get some free time, I will go back and edit a few small things on my themes as they changed the guidelines for acceptance a little bit. Once the themes are [...]