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 ...

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 the most efficient manner. By that I mean you separate the content from the presentation so anyone who needs to view, or in some cases listen to your web site, can do so without any effort on their part. A quick ...

Finally, all five of the Envato Tuts+ sites have now been switched to the new theme and updated branding, and I just completed the much anticipated Flashtuts+ the other day. The staff in charge of content are feverishly getting ready for a launch, which should be anytime now. So many exciting things have been happening over at Envato recently. A couple new tutorial sites, a new marketplace and one of the coolest things in my opinion to happen in the last few months is the addition of a completely new Tuts+ dashboard and redesigned members section. Now when you sign up for the plus program you only pay ...

Well, I have been very busy these last few months and completely neglected this blog, so in the spirit of trying to get back on the horse I’m gonna start things off with some good news. Collis Ta’eed, Chris Moyer and I successfully launched the new Psdtuts+ web site today! Wow what a Wordpress theme that was. Thankfully everything went off without a hitch and the new theme has found a home on the net. Apparently when I turned off maintenance mode the Psdtuts+ community was waiting, comments have been rolling in all day about the upgrade and it seems to be an overwhelmingly positive response to the changes Collis and I made ...