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 ...

Have you ever wanted to know if the page you're on is a child of a certain page because you needed to know that information in order to add a snippet of code to the sidebar or remove something or whatever you had planned but you tried and just couldn't figure out a solution that was simple and easy to maintain? Well, here is a piece of code that will do just that. I use this very code all over the place, on pretty much every project I do. The concept is simple. I need to know more than if the is_page('portfolio'); I ...

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 ...

Content is probably your single most important assets on the web. So maybe you should consider keeping it protected. If you are like the many others out there using Wordpress to manage your precious content, than you probably should do a few things to help make it more secure from the admin side. Image you were hacked and lost everything, how devastating would that be? Take some simple measure now that will save you tons of heartache in the future. We can all agree that having a secure web site is very important but what people forget is that you need to actually do a little work to make it ...