The Personal Site of Dan Masters

Category: Web Design

  • My New Best Friend – CurvyCorners

    If you have been doing web design for any period of time you have run up against the classic question – How do I make rounded corners without images for the website I am working on? There have been a lot of hacks out there and they all have their…

  • 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…

  • The Frustration in Choosing WordPress Themes

    I think frustration is maybe a little strong word to use given my situation. My “frustration” stems from me trolling several sites that offer free or even very inexpensive WordPress themes. I do not really think it is fair on my part to be “frustrated” because hey, these people are…

  • Dreamweaver CS3 Crashes After Daylight Savings Time Change

    There is a project that I had not worked on in a few weeks that was coded in .asp via Dreamweaver that ever time I tried open an .asp page it would crash. HTML pages were fine. At first I thought it had to do with the fact that I…

  • UrbanFonts – Get Your Font On

    As a designer I am always looking for good resources that will make my life easier. It is even better when these resources are free. Urbanfonts is a site that offers fonts for free. While this is nothing new UrbanFonts has a couple of things that I feel set it…

  • WordPress SunFlower Theme – 500 Downloads in 2 Weeks

    Simply Amazing. The Custom WordPress Theme named Sunflower that I made for my wife’s blog has been downloaded over 500 times since it was released 2 weeks ago. This theme as you know is a rendition of my Beach House WordPress Theme that has been downloaded over 2000 times in…

  • Optimize Your CSS for Better SEO Results

    Wow. You know the SEO arena is getting competitive when people start optimizing their CSS for SEO purposes. I was just really starting to understand the benefits of CSS over a table design. Anyway this is a really good article that compares some different CSS optimizers and publishes the results.…

  • A Good PHP Tutorial Site

    I am starting a new project at work that is requiring me to do some dynamic sites in PHP. I have not really worked with PHP in the past but have become more and more familiar with it by using WordPress. I have mostly worked with ASP in the past…

  • 40 Different CSS Page Layout Site

    Here is another resource that will help will CSS layout for a standard site or even a WordPress Blog template. It is Layout Gala and they have 40 different CSS layouts that are free to download. Their site can be found at http://blog.html.it/layoutgala/ Technorati : CSS, Layout, Web Design