Design

WordPress: Designing a Custom Page Template (Part 1)

What’s in this Tutorial

This is Part One of a three part tutorial on creating custom page templates for WordPress. In this tutorial I will be covering the process of designing a page template. We will take a look at:

  1. Planning the page based on your needs.
  2. Wireframing the layout.
  3. Creating a mockup based on our wireframe and our WordPress theme’s current design.

Click here to read Part 2: Designing a Custom Page Template

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Design

Adobe Fireworks: 1440 Grid Template

Background

Yes, I know, I know…Adobe is dropping Fireworks and it will not be available in the new family of Creative Cloud Apps. However, as an avid user of the application…I am currently refusing to let it go!
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Design

Socialico Font: Instagram Icon

Socialico is a package of 74 social media icons, combined within a single weight font. It was designed by Jelio Dimitrov.

I’ve used this font in a lot of projects, I love it’s simplicity! I don’t typically embed it into my sites, I usually convert the icons I need into vectors as I’m going through my design process.

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Design

Illustrator CS4 Selection Tool Won’t Scale

Whenever I get stuck with a CS4 issue, I do what any smart, tech-savvy, genius-type person would do…I Google. If you’re trying to find the answer to this issue: “Illustrator CS4 Selection Tool Won’t Scale”, you’re going to get a lot of results…but if you’re having the problem I was having, all of those results will be WRONG.

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