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Since 1998, I've built websites of all scope and size for Category 4 where I currently serve as Art Director.
This site has been featured on Design Meltdown, Smashing Magazine, Mashable, CSS Mania and Best Web Gallery.
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The custom image-resize script (TimThumb) created for Mimbo Pro is now available as an open-source project! It’s already being used by a handful of other theme designers and I look forward to seeing what other folks do with it…
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I’m doing some testing on the new release (very nice so far, I’ll have a more complete review soon) and realized my images were being corrupted by WP’s new uploader tool. A quick Google search revealed the answer…
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Spirit of ‘98 is a Wordpress theme that borrows the hottest design techniques from a decade ago and makes them even hotter. The /images/ folder comes packed with buttons, bullets and animations, while custom control panel options allow for additional beveling and border thickness.
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A jailed con man duped the media last month by providing false FBI documents implying Puff Daddy and associates were complicit in Tupac Shakur’s murder. The LA Times now has egg on its face for sloppy fact-checking — they could have just enlisted Hoefler & Frere-Jones to analyze the typesetting and spacing.
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Muxtape is a simple music-sharing tool that lets you upload 12 songs, change the order via AJAX/drag-drop, and send the URL to your friends. If you ever made unrequited-love mixes in high school only to have them end badly, now’s your chance to make them on a much grander, public level.
Here’s mine, dedicated to [...]
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The Probama theme reached 1000 downloads today, which is great news, but we’ve also had many users requesting the PSD file so they could develop non-Obama designs. So for anyone who found Probama via my blog, I thought I’d announce it here that the PSD is now available and free to use…
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Kris Sowersby, creator of the handsome Newzald font and owner of the KLIM foundry, has written my favorite tutorial in recent memory called “Newzald: From Moleskine to Market“.
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Since the free version of Mimbo launched back in August, I’ve been getting 3-4 queries a week from users willing to pay for small customizations. Now since Mimbo Pro has launched, I’m getting customization requests for both themes. Unfortunately with a full-time job and all free time dedicated to Mimbo Pro, I have no time for any new side-work.
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If you read Wikinomics, you’ll remember the story of a mining company called GoldCorp which was poised to fail due to a vital lack of information and resources. GoldCorp’s CEO became inspired by Linus Torvalds and eventually opened up his company’s research to the greater public, throwing open what is ordinarily a very closed and secretive process.
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Ben Cope got in touch at the beginning of the year about having his Wordpress Dream Theme reviewed but unfortunately it overlapped (underlapped, more accurately) with the planning and development for Mimbo Pro. Regrettable that it took me over two months to do a write-up, but hopefully better late than never…
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Just wanted to thank everyone for the nice reviews on Mimbo Pro so far, and also for their patience today. As mentioned before, Plimus, which manages the secure transactions and affiliate stuff, takes a fairly proactive stance toward fraud and spam. As a result, they hand-process the first batch of orders to ensure all transactions are legitimate….
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Mimbo Pro is a powerful and feature-rich theme for Wordpress, developed by Darren Hoyt and Ben Gillbanks and released through Ben’s Pro Theme Design marketplace…
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We had a departmental meeting last month at Category 4 and realized that 1) we all liked Barack Obama, and 2) we wanted to release some free Wordpress themes since we use Wordpress for so many of our smaller projects. The combined result is Probama, the first freebie of what I hope will be many…
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I’m planning a site redesign for this summer and the font budget just got a lot more expensive! See also, Typographica’s “Favorite Typefaces of 2007“.
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This site uses Archer for typography, WordPress for content management, Fancy Zoom for thumbnails and a palette created with Kuler. Read more about the site's history»