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WordCamp Portland 2008 Registration & Agenda

by eric on August 20th, 2008 in: WordPress

WordCamp Portland 2008 is open for registration and the Agenda is posted.

You’ll even see my name in the list of speakers. I’ll be leading a breakout session at 2pm called “Design & Debug Themes with Free Tools,” which will cover using free and open source tools like Firebug and the Firefox Web Developer Toolbar to build, edit, and troubleshoot WordPress Themes.

I’m excited and a bit nervous. :)

If you’re a user, developer, or are just interested in WordPress and would like to learn and network with other WordPress folks, come on down.

I hope to meet you at WordCamp Portland.

WordCamp San Francisco 2008 Highlights

by eric on August 18th, 2008 in: WordPress

Returned yesterday morning from WordCamp San Francisco 2008 and had a good time despite over 24 hours of driving.

WordPressWordCamp was only one day long this year, but it offered two different tracks: one for developers and another for bloggers.

I was able to see several terrific presentations, my favorites being: Read more…

Redesigning sewmyheadon.com

by eric on August 14th, 2008 in: Other StuffWeb Design

Just launched the spiffy new and somewhat Gothic custom design for sewmyheadon.com and I’m tickled silly.

I had several goals for the redesign including:

  1. overhauling the imagery to better represent me and the site ‘brand’
  2. making the site easier to read by using larger/more attractive fonts and better spacing
  3. using an elastic layout that works better with different monitor resolutions, and
  4. incorporate some new features like the last.fm links in the footer (more to come).

You might ask, “What the heck does ‘sewmyheadon’ have to do with web design, Linux, Open Source, and WordPress?”  Then again, you may not. :)

If you get a chance, please click around, let me know what you think, and if you encounter any errors.