Hello, I'm Chris Murphy — I specialize in creating engaging, user-centric interactive experiences.
Archive for "WordPress Themes"
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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 25
WordPress Theme Design Part 4: Visual Texture
Visual texture plays a large role in design: the lack of and the addition of texture are all part of visual communication. It is one of the ways a designer can appeal to the users’ senses through a medium that is not tactile by nature.
Strategic…
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Jan 2009 19
WordPress Theme Design Contests — What Are You Really Getting Involved In?
To be clear: this post is not announcing a new contest.
While I’m an ardent supporter of promoting the WordPress platform any way I can, the contest documentation sent up red flags after the first and second read through:
- The rules for…
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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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Jul 2008 11
Twilight Saga WordPress Theme
There are so many themes out there that just don’t seem to have much of a concept behind them, in fact most seem to be little more than decoration. I don’t think WordPress themes need to always have a concept behind them, but the on…
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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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Dec 2007 14
FFF "Lemon Twist" WordPress theme v1.5 Released for download!
Here it is, FFF “Lemon Twist” v1.5 available for download.
This theme is quite dear to me as it’s been something I’ve tweaked and adjusted until it’s as perfect as I can manage — I hope that you can all e…
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Nov 2007 23
farfromfearless featured on SmashingMagazine
Jon Snook alerted me to this — farfromfearless.com is featured once more on Smashing Magazine’s “30 More Excellent Blog Designs” (see the “Nice and Original Blog Designs” category”).
I ha…
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Jul 2007 21
farfromfearless with a Lemon Twist
It has been a pleasure to hear from many of you folks who have downloaded the Lemon Lime theme, and it has been a great encouragement for me to develop the theme you see here. With that said, there were a few things I wanted to accomplish with this…
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