Creattica Daily has gotten a pretty sweet makeover, not that it wasn't already awesome. Collis (CEO of Envato) was itching to try out a new larger 1200px wide design, and one that will pretty much update and maintain itself without the need to post daily roundups or cost tons of cash since the site has not been very profitable. Don't worry though, the Creative License comic will still be going strong for all who enjoy some good clean humor. As well, there will continue to be plenty of content to sink your teeth into, it will just be pulled from various sources around the web vs. manual submission.

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UPDATE: Sites Live... After many months of hard work, Collis Ta'eed (design), Mathias Meyer (Rails), and I have reached the final stages in pre-launch testing for the new Freelance Switch. Within a week or two we will have thoroughly tested the staging site to account for what I'm hoping is almost all bugs. The site is the mashup of three different applications and a seriously cool plugin. Below I'll let you in on what technologies we used to build this very awesome web site.

Blog & Plugin

For the blog and most of the sites regular content (i.e. contact, about, etc.) I built a WordPress theme that is extremely custom and sexy. In ...

I recently added an updated version of the is_page_or_sub() function now called is_page_or_ancestor() to the plugins directory over at WordPress.org. The new version of the function is a recursive test to see if the page ID or name you pass into the function is actually the current page or one of its ancestors. Basically you can test to see if you are viewing an ancestor of the About page and if so execute some code (i.e. change a pages class or id). I use this function on my site and pretty much on every other site I've ever built. However, the only different is this new code is leaner and will test ...

I'm very happy to announce the redesign. Over the past year or so since the last update things have really been progressing and my portfolio is looking very respectable with a few projects that I am very happy to be a part of. However, I have been so busy that the simple task of launching a new and improved version of this site has been something of a challenge. I wanted to completely rewrite the code and make the design as awesome as I could with the spare time I had, but I also wanted to keep the logo and expand on the colors and not change the overall ...