I’d say my visitors are gone, since I haven’t posted here in more than half an year. We’ll get them back, no worries about that What happened all this time? Well, we had another 6 months in NYC, so we spent 12 months in 2 years. That’s awesome, and I can’t find words to thank our wonderful friends for taking us into their home and taking care of us like they did. This wouldn’t be possible without such wonderful people around. I’m working full time as a freelance web designer and can say it’s finally worth all the stress and … Continue reading →

In this Photoshop Tutorial you’ll learn how to design a simple and yet elegant layout for a news blog. Maybe you won’t become a web designer overnight, but at least you’ll learn some of the tricks of the trade and understand what layouting is all about. We start with a new document. I have created a 980 pixels wide / 1200 pixels high file in Photoshop. Since I still design for 1024 wide resolutions, this means I won’t have an horizontal scroll bar and also can “stretch” the layout as much as possible to use any pixel possible. You can … Continue reading →

For an experienced wordpress designer this is something pretty simple. It’s in the end a 2 minute job. Still, for some people who haven’t ventured so much into the code, creating a separate design for certain pages can seem hard. WordPress has a specialized template for the pages. It’s page.php, which you can find in your theme’s folder. But what if you’d like to have one or more pages that don’t run on the same design? First you open page.php. The code (as taken from the twentyten theme) looks something like this: <?php /** * The template for displaying all … Continue reading →

For years I have been trying to get all I could from my designs, if it was a forum or a blog design. Or any other possible platform. Working with wordpress has been a true blast and the fact you can customize it at will, really makes me love it. Some of my clients wanted this little feature added to their blogs, while you can also see it in action in the home page, (the 4 lists to the categories: forum management, blogging, web development and web business). Usually WordPress lists a number of latest posts from all the categories. … Continue reading →

RamonaIftode.com has got a new unique layout, made from zero. A design in Photoshop, sliced and put together. The theme is called “dojo” and it’s my first WordPress design made from zero and not having the default skin modified. My previews works were looking like this: 24funblog.ro, lifetm.info, lafeminin.info (these are modifications of the default or classic style). I wasn’t able to see how it looks in Internet Explorer since mine thought it would be nice to mess with me and stop working, the page buttons in the header are to be “mended”, they aren’t all working. Should you see … Continue reading →