Super lucky to be contacted by one of my favourite street artists to do their website… I’ve been photographing Be Free‘s work for about 5 years now on the streets and in abandos, even been to a few authorised and un-authorised exhibitions and now am privileged to design their website! The Menu had to include … Read moreWeb Design for street artist Be-Free
A re-design for the infamous Adrian Doyle (of Blender Studios and painting Rutledge lane Empty-Nursery-Blue fame) was in order and luckily enough I got the call; stripped back minimal white to showcase his art, news and exhibitions: I used wordpress as mostly I do now, All-in-one SEO, Featured Image Thumbnail Grid plugin, Contact form 7, … Read moreWeb Design for Adrian Doyle
Recently I undertook my most epic redesign ever, over 1400 pages! Originally they were to be converted from ModX to WordPress but every conversion attempt resulted in broken xml or csv. So copy and paste then converting or restyling the bits of html already present. The website was a for Sprinkle – a curve-embracing Melbourne … Read moreSprinkle.com.au website re-design
The Distinctive dame wesbite I redesigned also has a new online store so I made sure the theme was WooCommerce friendly, installed WooCommerce and added over 30 items. Apparently the store wasn’t working and so I investigated and realised I hadn’t set up the shipping methods without which the store will not function, continually resulting … Read moreWooCommerce assigning shipping methods
Went back into time in re-designing for this particular dame: The Distinctive Dame – a vintage styling salon located in the Melbourne Deco building Mitchell House providing dos nails and makeup circa 1920-1960. The banner/navigation is image based so only displaying on devices wider than 960px (any lower and it became to messy too remain … Read moreWeb Design for the Distinctive Dame
Recently completed a huge re-design for invurt.com with over a thousand pages, luckily it was already using wordpress so it was all about finding the right theme, styling, hacking, hacking, more hacking; and as a bonus, this could only be done after 9pm due to the site being live (almost 6 years now!) Invurt is … Read moreInvurt web site re-design.
Recently I moved a wordpress install from a sub directory to the current modX install root directory. Only this isn’t correct to say. I didnt know how to look for what I was about to perform at first, and was a little scared as this was the biggest website I’d rebuilt, ever! over 1400 pages! … Read moreSite relocation & Better Search Replace plugin
So making a template file just like a child theme or styling using the theme options css box is a good non-destructive way (to the theme and in case you change themes) to style your layout. The following is an example of what to do when making a template for an alternative home page: 1. … Read moreMaking a WordPress Template
Making the Google adsense banner ad responsive for my current project has proven very frustrating. Nothing worked. It either broke the width of the screen and remained at 728px wide on mobile, stayed at 320px on laptop or was 1pxwide x 90px high and other such fun times. Finally after reading up heaps and choosing … Read moreGoogle adsense responsive ad
The adobe color wheel allows you to create schemes for your websites and designs by sliding in and out the five disc markers, set rules, have results in hex and rgb. A very useful picker for coming up with unique and precise colour* combos. (*yeah adobe is US so have to write color when searching)