Monthly Archives: April 2010

Is Using WordPress Themes Frameworks Cheating at Web Design?

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 rehash the same ideas as these two…

Dreamweaver CS5 and PHP

I just read a very inter­est­ing review of Dreamweaver CS5 writ­ten by David Powers. David is some­one I have known for many years and he has writ­ten many books related to PHP. He is some­one who’s opin­ion I trust. So his review of Dreamweaver CS5 was of par­tic­u­lar inter­est to me as I am now fully embrac­ing the WordPress…

My Journey to WordPress — New Design Up!

As I already explained pre­vi­ously, on April 5th (2010), I migrated pix​e​lyzed​.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).

Better Defaults v2 Axure RP Library Released

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.

Why Pixelyzed​.com Is Now Running on WordPress

Last night, I started the process of migrat­ing pix​e​lyzed​.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 but it was long time com­ing and…