Ok so I’m a fan of tutorials that show you step by step as to how to accomplish something. One of my favourites, and one that has helped me in my quest in becoming a Web Designer is WPDesigners.com’s – So you want to create WordPress themes huh?. It was so detailed and informative, but sadly that was 2007, and now it’s time for a refresh.
Seeing as he doesn’t seem to be doing so, I thought I might give it a shot. This is an extremely ambitious series of posts, as this is a fairly new blog, from a fairly new blogger/web designer. So please, don’t treat my words as gospel, and always strive for improvement. I shall be doing these posts every two -three days so please stick around. If you have any trouble you can find me here (more…)
Yes this is my bluesy design for Miralize.com and I quite like it. Yes there are some kinks to be worked out, but this is my new design. I need to add a few things (like styling to the comments), but they shouldn’t take that long, and I wanted to get this design out as fast as possible.
I really like the ninja illustration I did for this site.I think it adds something different to the site. The whole site is designed to be fast-loading, with only two images, and a heck of a lot of CSS, I got it to look like this. Pretty impressive, huh? 
Haha I’m proud, but im not that arrogant.
Hope you enjoy it,
Sean
Media Virgins
I love the new style of Media Virgins, the home of first year at Tipperay Institute, for several reasons. Its design is simple yet not boring. People often say dark grey is the new black, but the dark grey I think adds elegance and professionalism to this new design.
Probably my favourite piece of this design is the sidebar with alternating shades of grey, that make it eay to stand out. This was also one of the most tasking pieces as I had to fiddle around with WordPress for a bit to get it to work properly. The footer also is a nice piece. I was never that much of a fan of content in footers but once I finished it I was surprised at how well it fit in with the sites flow.
This one is quite a different project than ones I usually work on. I administer this blog, and so I had the creative room to do what I wanted and I am pretty pleased. I had the chance to brand this design over several social networks to add conformity and continuity to the site. I had done several other designs beforehand (4 to be prescice), yet I was never happy with how they had turned out. Im pretty sure that this one will last for a bit and I hope people enjoy it. There is still several kinks to work out so if anyone see’s any, please comment below.
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Ok so if you havent been sitting in a soundproof bunker for the last 5 years, you have probably heard of Firefox. And as a budding developer, I tend to use its extensive plugins to help me. Take a look at my best.
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Usually bloggers often choose to list some of the best designs in their blogs but I think I’m going to try something a little different. Rather than post a list of the “Best” in my eyes I will give you a list of the galleries often voted by thousands. These sites are a must-see for inspiration. Undoubtebly they have sometimes been abused by ripping but they help none-the-less
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