Portfolio/showcase design mockup

Today I started working on a design for my portfolio page. In case you’re wondering, no I do not have an online portfolio yet. I want to create one because I really enjoy making websites and messing around with graphics…

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New theme “Restless” launched!

I am proud to announce “Restless,” a brand new and appropriately named theme for Spare Pencil. After several weeks of development, it is finally complete.

The theme is probably one of my most extensively templated themes yet. It has special templates…

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Dummy content for Wordpress

Designing and coding a Wordpress theme is often a pretty straightforward task: You write one or multiple implementations of the Loop in the corresponding template files, add some CSS and images and you’re basically good to go. Obviously you’ll want to…

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cPan-hell templating… and some other things

So I am working on a cPanel template for the LLP hosting service. It’s part of Project Codename: Bacon which aims to improve the hosting control panel.
I finished the layout for the new skin quite some time ago already. But obviously, it…

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Reading about Zen…

Remember the book I got some weeks back?
I have started reading it, the ‘Zen of CSS Design’, yesterday, and all I can say for now is that it is a really good book.
It reminds me of webdesign tricks and principle that…

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