The Personal Site of Dan Masters

  • Fessing Up and Building My Own WordPress Themes

    For client work I always work on a custom website design and layout and then transform that into WordPress template for the client’s website. For my personal sites I will admit that I generally rely on the work of others to get something up quickly and have even resorted to…

  • Playing With the WordPress iPhone 1.2 App

    WordPress has released their 1.2 version of their iPhone app. Noteable items that this update includes are: – Landscape Mode – New/editing pages – Comment moderation – Image resizing – Password protect posts I am using it to do this post and it seems to be working pretty well. Good…

  • Fixing FeedWordPress PermaLinks to the Original Website

    With the recent upgrade of the syndication plug-in FeedWordPress that I use on my network.idano.net syndication site the links on the articles were no longer linking back to the original website. A few people had noted this issue on the comments thread but no one provided any solutions. Because the…

  • Steven Scott Builders Website

    This website is for a New Home Builder in the Austin, TX area. This client is growing is size and felt the need to expand online in order to reach a larger audience. On this site I am doing the graphic design, CMS template integration, and custom PHP coding for…

  • Goof Board Website

    The Goof Board website is an ecommerce website for a new surfing product. I had worked previously with this same client on their bestgasket.com website so they wanted to me to work on this new endeavor. Graphics and video were done by the client’s outside sources. I managed a group…

  • Coremetrics Online Analytics

    I was hired to work for Coremetrics to manage their demo system for their Software as a Service (SaaS) Online Web Analytics reporting suite. During my time there I designed a Portable Demo System that utilized a self contained Apache/PHP/MySQL server that could be distributed via a zip file. After…

  • Beach House Theme

    The Beach House WordPress Theme is a custom theme with a cool and relaxing beach feel to it. The theme was originally designed to advertise a summer condo rental in sunny Southern California and was later released for free to the WordPress community. Since its release back in June 2006…

  • Taisei Construction

    For Taisei Construction I built their website from the ground up. It utilized my custom CMS with a news release module that I designed and built. I also did the overall layout and design of the website. This project was completed in 2005 and has been redesigned by another firm…

  • Clipper Transportation

    The Clipper Transportation website was a redesign project that I was assigned when working for AT&T’s small business website division. The client was unsatisfied with the initial design by our team and I was assigned the task of gathering the requirements in order to fit the client’s needs. The client…