Every now and then I like to showcase beautifully designed websites that run on different CMS platforms. One interesting system is known as ExpressionEngine from Ellislabs. It claims to be the “most flexible web publishing system you’ll ever meet”. It boasts a bevy of features that aims to meet the most serious of publishing needs. […]

Content content content. Probably the hardest thing to come up with. My original plan was just to have this website as a personal blog / portfolio but since the popularity of my themes (and some of the articles) – I’m getting that itch to take things even further. Maybe Fearlessflyer can come up a notch. […]

The speed of a web page is a strong determinant of your website’s success. The faster your page loads – the happier your viewers are. Well, that may not entirely be true (happy viewers result from good content) – but what good is good content if it takes too long to load? As we all […]

One of the challenging parts of web design is to provide exactly what your client needs. Some of them look to advertise a product. Others offer some kind of service, while the rest want a website for general information about their organization. Recently, I had to design for a local restaurant. Restaurant owners are quite […]

With the increasing popularity of WordPress comes the business of developing “bi-products” that support this amazing blogging platform. This includes the countless plugins, web hosting, developer support and of course – the most marketable of them all: premium themes. A number of leading designers have already dominated this WordPress premium themes market; quite notably: Woothemes, […]

Out of the hundreds of web application frameworks and content management systems available, only a select few surface for the masses to see. The reason is – not everyone who use your framework have a creative eye for making good design. Of course the more people utilize your framework – the more creative your user […]

As I’m building a new blog for a client, I came across designing the comments area for the single post page. I thought to myself, it would really impress my client if I was able to integrate Facebook Connect and Twitter right into the response form. Then I remembered seeing Disqus in many blogs that […]

Just finished another theme to add to my collection and I must say, I am just now getting the real hang of this theme production. This time around, I went a little unorthodox. That’s not true – It is a regular two column design; it does have the standard navigation; the sidebar is in the […]