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 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 ...


Valen Designs Gets an Overhaul!

April 11th 2009

New Designs 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 ...


Psdtuts+ v4 launch

October 17th 2008

Psdtuts+ 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 ...