Envato Marketplace Items

October 7th 2009

marketplaceThe Envato Marketplace Items plugin retrieves items from an Envato Marketplace and API set of your choice, then caches those results in your WordPress database before finally displaying the results as an image gallery of 80px square thumbnails. You can view examples of what the plugin does by checking out the sidebar of any Envato Marketplace blog and look at the Popular Files section. A quick note, the code ...


The New Creattica Daily

July 31st 2009

creattica-daily-top 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 ...


A Sneak Peak of the New Freelance Switch!

May 31st 2009

freelance_switch_teaser 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 ...


4 Reasons to use Web Standards

May 29th 2009

Web Standards First, lets start with some sort of definition of what Web standards are. In my best effort to encompass the concept in a short phrase, Web standards are the guidelines most widely accepted on the World Wide Web. These guidelines are to ensure that the web sites someone like me builds are created in a way to allow the information to be accessible and to as many people in ...