WordPress and Thesis Expert. First things first but not necessarily in that order. (Topics may shift while in flight)

Design

New Web Site Published

January 20, 2010

Today was a big day of sorts. I completed design and development work on new website. It is a custom designed website in form and function. It’s a significantly modified version of Thesis [ #thesiswp ] running on the latest install of WordPress (presently 2.9.1). The site is http://www.ckwrites.com I learned a great deal more about [...]

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Information Graphic Brilliance

December 10, 2009

I was sent this information graphic today and was struck by how effective it is. There is something that resonates with me. It puts your brand at the center of the page and graphically shows you how everything encircles and supports said brand. The guys at the site provided this fantastic embeddable graphic below for you interactive [...]

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A Website Realignment: Day 45: Branding Berchman

September 26, 2009

Note: Recently someone asked to see all the posts from this series. They were reading the “Day X” as a series that was a post every day. Under that logic you would see there are many posts “missing” in this series. However, that is not the case. I am working on this project most days, [...]

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A Website Realignment: Day 9: Branding Berchman

August 25, 2009

I’m picking up where I left off on the previous post. So far I’ve gathered adjectives 17 friends, family, and clients perceive as my personal brand. I’ve also identified adjectives I would use for my personal brand. But what else is there that might have an influence on my personal brand? My opinions, likes, and [...]

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Working on Spec (aka Working for FREE!)

August 13, 2009

I had a client of mine—one of my first when I struck out on my own—email me about a conversation we had a while back. The conversation was about some new ideas regarding a website. It was a great talk and the brainstorming was fun. We left the conversation open-ended and, from my perspective, we [...]

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Three Thesis Sites in One Week

August 7, 2009

It has been a busy publishing week for me. I have had 3 websites go “live” this week that are based on WordPress and Thesis. Two of these website involved comprehensive design and the other involved functionality customizations. The point of this post is to share some recent work to show that all Thesis sites [...]

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Thesis Tutorial: Dynamic Image Header with Transparent Logo

April 28, 2009

One of the tools that I use is Chris Pearson’s fantastic Thesis WordPress theme framework. In an effort to contribute back to both the Thesis and WordPress communities I have documented how to embed the Next-Gen Gallery plugin to your header, or banner image and place your logo above it. This functionality allows you the [...]

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Noticing Things That Are Broken

April 24, 2009

I came across this video yesterday. It is a presentation given by Seth Godin at the Gel Conference in 2006. He gives a slideshow of things poorly designed, the reasons why they are that way, and sometimes tells how to fix them. Other than being hilarious at moments, the video reminded me about the importance of [...]

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