Abstract drawing I’m working on

Design,Inspiration,Portfolio,textures — admin @ 5:20 pm

Preview of a hand sketched to scanned vector to PSD. I have always loved to draw on paper, but I never have time to do it. I finally made some time to sit down and do some sketching. Glad to share my work with you. You can view a larger version here.

WordPress 3.0 “Thelonious”

Blog,News,Video — mikeb @ 10:57 am

WordPress 3.0, the thirteenth major release of WordPress and the culmination of half a year of work by 218 contributors, is now available for download (or upgrade within your dashboard).

Developers and network admins will appreciate the long-awaited merge of MU and WordPress, creating the new multi-site functionality which makes it possible to run one blog or ten million from the same installation. As a user, you will love the new lighter interface, the contextual help on every screen, the 1,217 bug fixes and feature enhancements, bulk updates so you can upgrade 15 plugins at once with a single click.

Video showing some new features:

WordPress Plugin Recommendations

Blog — mikeb @ 4:26 pm

WordPress has 9,992 plugins (at the time of this post) available on their Plugin Directory. I use an average amount of plugins for my client sites and personal sites, usually it varies per site. Part of my daily routine is to check out the 1000′s of new feeds that are related to my design and development. Half of them are WordPress related and over time I have download, tested, tweaked, and recommended 100′s of plugins. A friend on twitter @joshhemsley mentioned that I should do a post about my findings of WordPress plugins. Take a look and if you have any to add to the list leave a comment. So, here it goes…
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CSSEdit 2.6

Apps,Blog,OS X,Web — mikeb @ 1:07 am

Because of CSSEdit’s unique focus on style sheets, it offers a wide range of features for any level of expertise. Starting out? Selector Builder and advanced visual editors will gradually help you understand CSS instead of dumbing you down.

For anyone well-versed in CSS, the Live Preview and intelligent source environment are invaluable tools to get your website or application styled in a fraction of the time it took before. Add powerful X-Ray web page inspection, and you’ve got an unbeatable CSS debugging suite.

CSSEdit offers unrivaled real-time styling of absolutely any web page. Even when your dynamic Web App is powered by a complex database or makes use of advanced AJAX, you can style and analyze it without the hassle of uploading or refreshing.

Design beautiful, innovative and fast-loading web sites… with a beautiful, innovative and fast app. CSSEdit‘s intuitive approach to style sheets and powerful previewing features will make you deliver awesome standards-based sites in no time!

Web Designer Magazine portfolio article

Articles,Blog,Design,Featured,Portfolio,Web — mikeb @ 11:48 am

I recently had a chance to submit my web design portfolio to a very well known and well designed magazine called Web Designer Magazine. A couple a months ago I recieved an email from them saying I got accepted. I was thrilled and super excited. My article is in May magazine, Issue 170. Here is a screenshot from my iPad.

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