written by raymondselda on August 25th, 2008 | posted in Website Showcase | 6 Comments »
I selected some of the websites listed here from PC Magazine’s Top 100 Undiscovered Websites article (I felt that I haven’t seen all of the websites from PC Mag’s review because their slideshow was acting a little weird). I was inspired by the ideas and concepts presented in each of the websites that were reviewed. I liked the fact that some of the websites targeted a smaller niche in order to avoid the heavy competition with already established websites. Well I hope you enjoy and find some inspiration in some of the websites (no particular order) presented here. (more…)
written by raymondselda on August 16th, 2008 | posted in Ajax, Tools | No Comments »
Looking for that perfect domain name can be a taxing job for some. I used to do my domain name hunting at NameCheap. A typical scenario would be to guide the mouse and click inside the textbox area, place both of my hands on the keyboard to type my domain name, reach back for my mouse, click on the submit button and wait for the page to refresh showing the results.
This can be a frustrating process if you find out that someone else already owns your domain name. Fortunately I don’t have to go through that process again! With the emergence of Ajax ( Asynchronous Javascript and XML), we can just type in our domain names and the results will show up instantly! This can really increase our productivity because a lot of the little unnoticeable actions will be eliminated. (more…)
written by raymondselda on August 9th, 2008 | posted in Wordpress | 6 Comments »
Its finally here! After almost a month of hardwork (because of procrastinating), I am launching my very own first wordpress theme! I know many of you have been anticipating this monumental release and your wait is finally over!
I like to describe this theme as the bastard son of ReadWriteWeb and Chris Coyier’s site. If you have noticed the genes for the header, sidebar and footer part came from Chris’ site while the genes for the content part came from ReadWriteWeb. Did you see the resemblance?
Here are some of the things I want to highlight:
Moz-border-radius for the sidebars
I’m aware that only a few browsers support this CSS property but I just thought it would be cool to show that you can create rounded corners without using any background images. Below is the CSS rules for the sidebar widgets:
-moz-border-radius-bottomleft: 10px;
-moz-border-radius-bottomright: 10px;
-moz-border-radius-topleft: 10px;
-moz-border-radius-topright: 10px;
Custom Google Search
I used Google as my search tool because of only one reason: You can make money from it by participating in Google’s Adsense Program! hehehe.
Custom Fields for thumbnails in homepage
With custom fields you can really make your theme unique. Creating thumbnails in your homepage is one of the techniques you can apply when developing your theme. I’m still searching and learning on other ways in which you can apply custom fields to your theme so if you have any ideas on using custom fields please feel free to share it.
Developing this theme was a lot of fun and had a great experience from it. I learned a lot and it also enabled me to woodshed on my XHTML, CSS and Photoshop interface designing and now I’m ready to work on my secret project!
Thank you for reading and please I would really love to hear your good and not so good comments about my theme.