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Note (2019-10-13): I’m leaving this article up for “historical” purposes but, please note that I no longer recommend Headway. I actually strongly recommend against it now for many reasons the first being that it’s clearly abandoned now. I’ve also had far too many problems with it in the past after I published this post and…

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…

As I already explained previously , on April 5th (2010), I migrated pixelyzed.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). As you can see, the new design…

My friend Loren Baxter who is an Interaction Designer and UX Engineer and owns the site ” A Clean Design ” has just released version 2.0 of his fantastic ” Better Defaults ” library of widgets for Axure RP 5.5 and higher. The new version of the library contains even more widgets than before, beautifully…

Last night, I started the process of migrating pixelyzed.com from a hybrid static and blog site which ran under blogCFC to a full blogging site entirely powered by WordPress (and PHP). As a long time ColdFusion developer and advocate, this is a huge change for me. It is a decision I did not take lightly…

This is just a quick note to tell you all that I just migrated the pixelyzed.com blog to Wordpress. I will post again in the next few days to explain the reasoning behind the change and speak  of my experience doing so. For now, you will notice that he blog is no longer under a…

As is becoming a tradition for me, I’m writing a post to reflect on the last year as we’re jumping into the new. I will write another post later to talk about new tools and new technologies I discovered or started using in 2009. In this one, I reflect on the past year, the things…

Over a year ago, I posted an article describing my Font Management Woes and my search for the perfect font management application on the Windows platform. For many years, that market has been dominated on the Mac side mostly by Extensis Suitcase Fusion and for good reason. Suitcase is a fantastic font management application with…