This is much cleaner and hopefully much more appealing to the masses than my old one, while still retaining some of my own interest.

I “wrote my own code” for the contact form. I really just followed a basic tutorial and made some slight modifications… I don’t even remember what the mods were, it was a while back (my convenience store job saps the life out of me). I’m fairly certain I’ll want to redo it in the near future since it doesn’t provide much help to the user who doesn’t fare well with technology.

The random image script used on the portfolio page came from some code by Matt Mullenweg.

I’ll be surprised, albeit pleasantly, if there are no bugs. That being said let me know if you find any, or if you have any other suggestions. What do you think of the forms? Are the inputs too confusing? It’s kind of a pain to get the focus on the inputs in the contact form in IE… I almost want to not do anything about it to punish anyone using IE, but I need some work and you just never know from whom it may come.

Also, what do you think of the presentation of my work? The web design page could use some mods, but I need to get some stuff up and running before I can do much with it. Some of the sites are no longer available so I need to make some WordPress themes out of ‘em and put ‘em on here for download.

In short, this is the new look of the site, I’d love to hear what you think, and I hope you’ll check back for the new stuff I’m planning on doing in the (hopefully) near future.

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I just found a bug! Be on the lookout.

ascetic is a template theme I designed a little while back to speed up my design process. I’ve only used it half a time since creating it, so it’s listed as beta and i’ll update it as I use it more.

Features:

• Widget ready
• IE .png fix
• Separate IE stylesheet (blank since the theme is intended for development use and would have to be completely redone anyway)
• Google code to make lesser versions of IE behave more like IE 8
• Update message for any version IE version less than 8

I appreciate any feedback/advice you may have.

Download ascetic.

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’); ?>