Hello, I'm Chris Murphy — I specialize in creating engaging, user-centric interactive experiences.
Archive for "January, 2008"
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Jan 2008 24
WordPress Theme Design Part 3: Color and Contrast
Color selection can be troublesome especially when it comes to designing for yourself. WordPress themes are no exception, and the exercise itself is possibly one of the more challenging aspects of creating a new theme. When it comes to des…
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Jan 2008 21
When backups fail
In brief: my external storage device failed.
This is not a good thing considering I the external drive was both my external storage and "backup" device. I use the term "backup" loosely as I don’t actually have a…
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Jan 2008 18
WordPress Theme Design Part 2: Web Typography
In the previous installment of this series, I covered how we can harmonize and control the layout of our design by making consistent use of a strong column measure. In turn, the column measure gave us the foundation for our visual grid. With t…
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Jan 2008 14
WordPress Theme Design Part 1: Best practices when designing a new theme
An issue facing developers currently is compatibility. Older WordPress themes are becoming less and less popular, which is not necessarily due to design so much as the lack of support for newer features such as "Widgets", emer…
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Jan 2008 11
“Lemon Twist” v2.0 – Updated WordPress Theme
There are some significant updates to this WordPress theme, and most of the updates are intended to make the theme a little friendlier for new users to tweak and modify as they need. Some of the updates you may not notice come in the form of sign…
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Jan 2008 2
Fun with Safari on the iPod Touch
One of the first things I did after getting my iTunes library cleaned up and ported over to the iPod Touch, was to develop an Touch/iPhone compatible version of my WordPress theme. I thought it would be much harder than it actually was and to be…