2009 Archive
Iconsters: Free Monster Icons
15th of August, 2009 in the year of our Lord
I needed an outlet for all of the horror movie intake I had last spring when I co-founded Horror Movie Monday with my friend Chase. I decided to play with Illustrator and make a bunch of icons for some applications that I frequently use (and for CandyBar since it was part of the inspiration).
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New Site: Sculpted Portrait
23rd of July, 2009 in the year of our Lord
Finished the site for Sculpted Portrait. Interesting services offered, if I had more money I’d probably commission some sweet Final Fantasy candles.
Please ignore the animated .gif… One of those things you just have to give in to the client on… though this is the least obtrusive animated .gif I’ve ever seen.
New WalkAbout Logo
20th of July, 2009 in the year of our Lord
I just finalized a project with Greenville College Resident Life this morning. I was asked to design a logo for WalkAbout— a 10-day hiking trip in the Smokies.
I’ve gone on the trip twice so I had some personal experience to bring to this project. A big part of the trip is a 48-hour experience in which students fast in solitude with nothing but the clothes on their backs, a half-inch foam mat, a sheet of plastic (not quite big enough to completely shield from rain), and a page of the Bible. At the end of the experience, students are encouraged to create a circle of stones as sort of a personal monument.
The time I enjoyed most on the trip was at the end of each night when we would sit in a circle around a fire and just talk.
I drew on these two components of the trip to create this logo (and badge):
The only thing I don’t really like about it is the raised bar on the As, but they’re not too bad. That was one of the clients’ ideas to make them seem more like mountains.
Finding the Page ID Numbers in WordPress
19th of July, 2009 in the year of our Lord
When developing a WordPress theme, it’s helpful to know a specific page’s ID number at times.
For instance, I’m working on a site now where I want to display some pages in the sidebar, but not all, so I use the template tag “wp list pages” and the parameter “exclude.”
Here’s how the code looks:
<?php wp_list_pages(‘title_li=&exclude=PAGE_ID’); ?>
Problem is, I don’t know the page IDs and it’s not listed anywhere in Pages > Edit. However if you choose a specific page to edit, the URL in the navigation bar will end in “post=PAGE_ID”.
If you need multiple page IDs, go to Pages > Edit. The URL that titles point to ends in the page ID. In Firefox you can just hover over the link and look in the status bar at the bottom of the screen.
My code ended up looking like this:
<?php wp_list_pages(‘title_li=&exclude=2, 308, 310, 312’); ?>
