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WordCamp Presentation Slides: From Photoshop PSD to WordPress Theme

By Evan Mullins | Published: February 3, 2012
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Here are my slides for my WordCamp Atlanta presentation, From PSD to WordPress Theme: Under the skin: PSD to WP on Prezi

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Speaker at WordCamp Atlanta 2012

By Evan Mullins | Published: February 1, 2012
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I’m proud to announce that I’ve been asked to speak at WordCamp Atlanta this year! WordCamp will be held this weekend and hosted at SCAD Atlanta! My session is titled: From PSD to WordPress Theme: Under the skin. Obviously, I’ll be focusing on themes. We’ll look at what they are, what they can do, how [...]

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A More Interactive Portfolio

By Evan Mullins | Published: March 23, 2011
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I think a portfolio is something that should be very interactive and intuitive. Check out what that has led to: circlecube’s interactive pog portfolio. I’ve been toying with trying to get something that was fun to look at, but also showed some work. Here is a first look at my Interactive portfolio of work which [...]

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circlecube Relaunch

By Evan Mullins | Published: December 1, 2010
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Not just a redesign but a whole new site and location! After having built loads of sites for clients/friends I kept learning things I wanted to employ on my own site, but the cobblers kids are always barefoot right? I kept implementing new things and knew that they were making my clients lives easier and [...]

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Update a thematic child-theme for wordpress 3.0 menu

By Evan Mullins | Published: September 27, 2010
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The new menu system in wordpress, while not perfect (yet), is a huge step in the right direction. I have had to update many old themes to support this feature, and as most of my theming is down with thematic, I finally got a standard block of code together to add to a functions.php file [...]

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Adding a header widget in your Thematic child-theme

By Evan Mullins | Published: September 7, 2010
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I’ve been building lots of wordpress sites lately and have been loving the thematic framework. I install the theme and then make my edits in a custom child theme. I’ve begun seeing a few things I end up doing in nearly every site and I wanted to share them because finding out exactly how to [...]

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Better jquery mega-menu tutorial

By Evan Mullins | Published: July 14, 2010
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My earlier simple mega menu implementation post displayed some simple css and jquery to explode a standard navigation menu into a mega-menu… I’ve made it even better. My biggest issue with that implementation was that it did not keep the order like you’d expect. It read left to right in columns rather than down each [...]

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A simple mega menu implementation with CSS and jquery

By Evan Mullins | Published: July 12, 2010
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I’ve been skinning quite a few ecommerce sites with the magento platform and wanted a simple way to explode the navigation menus. Some sites end up getting a long list of categories and sub-categories, so I wanted to do a mega-menu style navigation. One way to do it was to rewrite the html code for [...]

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Cornerstone Media Group | Atlanta Web Design

By Evan Mullins | Published: April 20, 2010
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I’ve joined Cornerstone Media Group of Atlanta as the Senior Web Designer and Front-End coder! A bit stale as far as news goes, I’m going on 6 months already. The reason I bring it up now is that we’ve just relaunched our website. This new look is not just about new appearances and aesthetics, it [...]

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Circlecube Freshens Up … for you!

By Evan Mullins | Published: November 7, 2008

Thanks for your patience as I’ve been tinkering with the theme, layout and css of circlecube.com. I started with a free theme from Justin Tadlock, Options Theme, available at theme hybrid. I’ve changed that theme quite a bit, from restyling it to fixing bugs I found and updated many other things on the site as [...]

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    LESS and syntax highlighting for Pea.rs

    By Evan Mullins on February 17, 2012

    Pears is an open source WordPress theme by Dan Cederholm (simplebits), enabling people like us to get your own pattern library up and running quickly. Collect, test, and experiment with interface pattern pairings of CSS & HTML. I’ve customized pears. I’ve forked it, adding support for coding in LESS as well as code highlighting! The [...]

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    An Event Apart Atlanta 2012 Notes

    By Evan Mullins on February 11, 2012

    Here is my collection of notes from attending An Event Apart Atlanta 2012. As I took notes, I had the thought that I’d be sharing them with co-workers and that it’d be easiest to just publish them here. I hope they are useful to someone else out there who didn’t take notes on something or [...]

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    Developing for old browsers is (almost) a thing of the past – (37signals)

    By Evan Mullins on February 10, 2012

    Basecamp announces that it’s new version will not support old browsers! They will of course continue to support them in their “classic” version. But this is good news and as more implement this type of policy the internet will be happy. It used to be one of the biggest pains of web development. Juggling different [...]

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    Vendor Prefixes – about to go south

    By Evan Mullins on February 10, 2012

    What are “standards” coming to? Who’s guilty? Apple and Chrome: They’re supporting vendor prefixed properties like they’re a standard part of development. Firefox, Opera and Internet Explorer: They should have been on the ball more. Need to push their evangelism further. Teach developers that it’s not exclusively -webkit to style elements. All the browsers: experimental [...]

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    An Event Apart Notes: Ethan Marcotte, Responsive Web Design

    By Evan Mullins on February 8, 2012

    Ethan Marcotte has become the father of Responsive Web Design and spent this whole day focused on principles, techniques, gotchas, examples, … all about building and how to build responsive sites. With a sprinkle of mobile first. For Ethan, it all started with this article: http://www.alistapart.com/articles/dao/ Think of architecture, the whole design phase is established [...]

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    An Event Apart Notes: Jared Spool, The Curious Properties of Intuitive Web Pages

    By Evan Mullins on February 7, 2012

    Senseless waste of asterisks… Avis used an asterisk to denote optional fields. This means that there is a lot of baggage that comes with an asterixk. Somewhere this symbol got meaning, it’s not in the bible! We can control when something goes from unintuitive to intuitive. A design is intuitive (although technically and grammatically speaking [...]

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    An Event Apart Notes: Marco Arment, Bridging the App Gap

    By Evan Mullins on February 7, 2012

    The iPhone changed our industry in 2007: first mobile to have a desktop class web browser and it made people start using their mobile phones as computers! All apps other than apple provided ones were web browser apps. Most of the first apps were branded web browsers. No real difference between using mobile site or [...]

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    An Event Apart Notes: Luke Wroblewski, Mobile to the Future

    By Evan Mullins on February 7, 2012

    MASS MEDIA (in waves) Print, Recordings, Cinema, Radio, Television, Internet, Mobile Mobile is the new Mass Media It certainly is mass and massive. More mobile devices (by far) every day than babies born on the planet. Mobile devices are eating into our personal computing shares. New waves of mobile media eat all previous media waves. [...]

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    An Event Apart Notes: Josh Clark, Buttons are a Hack

    By Evan Mullins on February 7, 2012

    Mobile and touch should be revolutionizing design and user experience. We don’t want to touch a tiny link or button. Back button is just stupid. Fitz’s Law, make things fat proximal targets for easy touching. People are lazy, let’s as designers LET people be lazy! Maybe even use the whole screen as your control. Eliminate [...]

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    An Event Apart Notes: Nicole Sullivan, Our Best Practices are Killing Us

    By Evan Mullins on February 7, 2012

    Grep to for analyze css. CSS duplication is a web-wide problem. Started helping facebook optimize thier site and they had 1.9MB of css loading. The same color showing up hundreds of times. Many many color statements and declarations. !important declarations get dangerous. Sites found to have over 500 !important declarations! float is a serious problem [...]

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    Evan Mullins

    Evan Mullins

    @Mikael – I believe this would do it. It just fired the toggle event on the...
    Mikael

    Mikael

    Hey great post!! can i by any chance make the toggle function start as hidden? So when i reload...
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    you saved me man :) !!!! thank you
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    this is really nice. this made many of my task simple.
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    Just wanted to thank you for your presentation. It was extremely informative and just what I...
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