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A new portfolio solution in more than one place.

June 21, 2010

Ever since I started to focus on Berchman.com I realized that my former “company” website, HamiltonBerchman Design Group, Inc., was no longer maintained, correct, or relevant. However, at the time I was fortunately too busy to even think about doing anything to the site. Then one day I was doing research on a project and [...]

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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 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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A Website Realignment: Day 8: Branding Berchman

August 24, 2009

Since writing the first post in this series I read a great article on A List Apart that spoke volumes to me about the process I am embarking on and documenting here. If you do not read alistapart.com I suggest you check it out. To summarize–I am not so much “redesigning” berchman.com as I am [...]

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Thesis Tutorial: Sidebars However You Like Them

May 25, 2009

One of the things I learned from creating multiple custom page templates within the Thesis framework was how to create and modify sidebars. WordPress and Thesis provide you with a simple an effective way for implementing sidebars on your website with the use of simple syntax, options, and widgets.

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Thesis Tutorial: Deleting Preferences and Resurrecting Them Again

May 17, 2009

I had been writing a new tutorial for unlimited custom sidebars and ran into this issue that got me sidetracked. I thought the experience would be good to chronicle and publish as a tutorial. So if you ever need to “clean out” your Thesis install but want to keep all your settings in place, this is the tutorial for you.

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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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Thesis Tutorial: Multiple Custom Page Templates

February 25, 2009

I have been working with Thesis for a little over a month now. Thesis is a relatively new templating platform for WordPress. Thesis has unmatched SEO, cross-browser compatibility, and top-notch HTML + CSS architecture. This website runs on Thesis. I was looking through the Thesis forums and tweeting with others on how to get a [...]

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