Category Archives: WordPress

My Journey to PHP: Converting web​fo​cus​de​sign​.com

As I hinted in an ear­lier post about my move to WordPress, one of the rea­sons for that deci­sion was to help me learn PHP. I am well on my way and I have now cre­ated one client site with PHP (sim­ple stuff server-​side so it was easy) and I am now in the process of con­vert­ing my business…

New Design & New Headway Theme Framework

I finally took the time to put up a new design I can live with for this blog (for now… this is again tem­po­rary). I trashed the design with the gray header and took a new direc­tion. This uses the same logo as v2 and inte­grates design ele­ments from the orig­i­nal pix​e​lyzed​.com like the pixels/​boxes but with a dif­fer­ent treatment.…

Is Using WordPress Themes Frameworks Cheating at Web Design?

I read a very inter­est­ing arti­cle over the week­end titled “Are WordPress Themes Cheating in Web Design?” by James Dalman. That arti­cle itself was inspired by an older one titled “Confessions of a Template Whore” by Sabrina Dent which is equally inter­est­ing. The point of this post is not to rehash the same ideas as these two…

Dreamweaver CS5 and PHP

I just read a very inter­est­ing review of Dreamweaver CS5 writ­ten by David Powers. David is some­one I have known for many years and he has writ­ten many books related to PHP. He is some­one who’s opin­ion I trust. So his review of Dreamweaver CS5 was of par­tic­u­lar inter­est to me as I am now fully embrac­ing the WordPress…

My Journey to WordPress — New Design Up!

As I already explained pre­vi­ously, on April 5th (2010), I migrated pix​e​lyzed​.com from another blog­ging plat­form to WordPress. Last night I changed from the free theme I’d been using to my own new design which I inte­grated into WordPress using the Thesis theme (more about Thesis below).