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Spend some time in the theme repo, any premium theme shop, or design gallery and you’ll notice that a small handful of layouts  emerge as clear favorites. WordPress by its nature encourages many of these patterns, and the design/dev community has … Continue reading WPPatterns →

320px and Up – Responsive Web Design, what is it, the benefits, a background on it, how to get started, and things to watch out for while developing sites that work on any mobile phone, tablet, desktop, and more.

Child Themes provide a great deal of power for the end user to modify and extend a Theme, and offload a considerable amount of development and support work for the developer. This presentation will cover the important aspects of developing … Continue reading Developing Child Theme-friendly Themes →

Logic and statistics drive many usability discussions. How many users accomplished a task? How long did it take on average? What labels caused delays? etc. Likewise, emotion is often discussed in context of interactivity and aesthetics. Emotion and usability sound … Continue reading The Overlap of Emotion and Usability →

Customers as a whole don’t read instructions. They’re written for them, but they don’t read them. I’m going to talk about good support, good customers, bad support, jerk customers, and combinations of all of those. More importantly, I want to … Continue reading No, I Didn’t Read The Instructions. Just Do It For Me →

Most WordPress themes today won’t stand the test of time. Twenty Ten and Twenty Eleven are examples of themes that do, unfortunately most commercial work doesn’t meet the standards you expect based on these free default themes. Topics of interest … Continue reading Every Theme Sucks and Nobody Cares →

I would like to delve into the newest of CSS3, what can and should be used progressively, how to use these techniques, and what we can expect in the future from this amazingly sophisticated technology. I would like to cover … Continue reading CSS3 and WordPress Themes →