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Upcoming Projects & Work…

Well, as I get ready to head back home in the next few days hopefully, I’ve been looking over some things that will need to be done and trying to prioritize what I have left to do on a few projects, and how to tackle those when I get back to get back in the routine.

First, the most important item I have on the table is the completion of the Drupal project Poodle Breeder Source. It’s a great site, and almost ready to go, I just need to finalize the ecommerce installation again, and work on some of the copy for generic pages, along with touching up the admin panel that advertising/posting users will have the ability to access for usability purposes.

Second, I need to upgrade this site to the latest version of wordpress… should be easy money there.

Third, I need to complete the copy and such for the Himerus Inc. The layout is done, and except for a few issues in IE7 with the jQuery scrollbars,  it really just needs the appropriate information incorporated into the pages that have been created so far. This will be the first implementation of my own custom CMS that will greatly speed up putting out quality, easy to manage sites.

Fourth, It’ll be time to rework the Himpressive theme, and get that set up to work with Wordpress 2.3 and have it installed on the site. I’m really excited about that one, the way it’s going to be set up, It could definitely be a popular theme that gets used quite a bit, and will be my first release of a fully functional Wordpress theme. Included with that will be a few plugins that help some of the functionality that will be implied on the theme. There will be a very slick jQuery calendar that should be eaten up by the community even without using the theme.

So, putting it lightly, I have a lot of work to accomplish, and want to be able to get most of this lined out as quickly as possible once I get back home. Once I get in the swing of these projects, I will probably be able to start posting up some jQuery tutorials and different modifications to Drupal and Wordpress that I can’t live without.

Look for more to come soon!!

 

Himpressive data loss… Theme design destroyed…

I felt like crying… either that, or taking a big ass axe and chopping my Western Digital MyBook 160GB drive into little tiny bits that could be used to sprinkle all over my other trash to give it a little more “pizazz”.

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Theme Update: Announcing Himpressive

After quite a bit of work on my idea for design layout and concept, I’ve got most of the ideas in my head that I want to incorporate into what I “think” will be a great Wordpress theme. It will be known henceforth as: Himpressive.

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Thought Process: jQuery Elements…

After doing a little more thinking on the theme I’m going to slap together, I realized that although I really like the K2 interface, it isn’t what I want to base the code on that I use for this theme… After running into lots of problems integrating some jQuery elements after using the K2 theme which is using the prototype library & scriptaculous.

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Coming Up: Some Fancy Wordpress Theme

I really enjoyed making the current theme I’m using on the site, which was a modified version of K2. However, when I created the skin/theme, I didn’t have the thought in mind of publishing it to the public, and with all the transparency issues, I would hesitate to do such a thing.

With that in mind, I’m really looking around for some nice layout/design elements/ideas that can get me moving on making a really great theme to release to the Wordpress community. I want to concentrate on a nice Web 2.0 feel, valid XHTML 1.1, and a full CSS layout of course.

More to come on the subject as I get my ideas gathered, and a generic layout sketched. I’m really excited to tackle this one. This will be only my 3rd Wordpress project, and I’ve got my beta install set up to test things out with, and get it hammered out in private without affecting any of the current functionality or layout on this site. Once it is complete however, it will replace this theme as the default theme for the site.

What I know so far:

  • Hybrid 3 Column Fixed Width Layout
  • Advanced jQuery Elements
  • Modified K2 Theme Core
  • Will make freely available to the public

Look forward to getting my skin up on your site… :D