Hello, I'm Chris Murphy — I specialize in creating engaging, user-centric interactive experiences.
Archive for "Developement"
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Apr 2009 6
Out with the Old and in with Something Dramatically Different.
As some of you may have noticed by now, I’ve updated farfromfearless. I suppose “update” is a bit of an understatement. If you’re reading this post, it’ll be in the context of a dramatically new theme and structure.
Change is good.
What’s New…
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Feb 2009 6
Top 3 Myths of Content Management Systems.
Search Google for the term, “Content Management System”, “CMS” or about any permutation of the concept you might think of, and you’ll get anywhere from 90,000 to 160,000 potential results. If only one percent of those results yield A to B-g…
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Nov 2008 10
FrogCMS – Content Management Simplified.
Content Management Systems come in so many flavours, and while I don’t advocate any one system over another, I have no hesitation in saying that this product is one to keep an eye out for. Created by Quebec-based developer, Philippe A…
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Sep 2008 6
How To Style Your Most Recent WordPress Posting
How you choose to style your blog postings is largely dependent on the theme you’ve selected to use on your blog, your writing style, as well as — perhaps — your skill at modifying the themes.
For the most part, you may be st…
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Aug 2008 29
How To Quote Comments In A WordPress Comment List
I received an email from a reader this afternoon, asking about one of the commenting features that I built into the Lemon Twist theme: quote comments.
Hi Chris,
I’m really curious on how you got that quote feature on your comment section. Do y…
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Aug 2008 25
WordPress Plugins For The Not-so-everyday Blog.
For those of you who aren’t familiar with plugins — WordPress offers the ability for software developers to extend the basic functionality of WordPress in order to display, perform or provide functionality that does not cur…
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Aug 2008 5
How To Use Mail Merge In Microsoft Word 2007
In a recent project that required a mass email deployment, I encountered one of the most overlooked issues when sending bulk emails within a large company from an external source: corporate black-list policy. Quite simply, this is an IT po…
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Jul 2008 23
How to BETTER Communicate Design Decisions to Clients
In a recent recent article on Smashing Magazine, “How to communicate design decisions to clients“, writer Brian D. Armstrong laid out a five-point guideline on how to rationalize and present design for web-projects.
Mr. Ar…
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Jun 2008 24
Separating the creative from the technical in web-design.
Web-design in all it myriad forms, can be characterized as the marriage of creative vision and technical implementation. But it is the limitations and resulting solutions for what can be achieved technically that — to me — is…
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Mar 2008 18
Working at an Advertising Agency or a Boutique Shop – which option is better?
With all the stiff competition for limited placements in agencies, it’s not difficult to understand the concern over wanting to work for the best and at the best creative agency. To confuse students further, they now have much more t…
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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 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…
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