A Little About Me...

I am a hopeless Starbucks addict, freelance web designer/internet consultant living in Chicago. I write poetry and also love to ski.

I have some addictions... Starbucks lattes, watching Grey's Anatomy, traveling on Royal Caribbean cruises.

Music fetishes... Chris Tomlin, Dave Matthews Band, Hillsong United, Vanessa Carlton, Sarah McLachlan, Brooke Fraser, and Colbie Caillat.

WordPress, StudioPress, The GPL License (Let’s Move On)

July 2, 2009 · 11 Comments 

For those of you who have been working with WordPress for a while, you’re probably pretty tired (admittedly like me) about the whole conversation regarding the GPL license and how it applies (or doesn’t apply) to premium commercially supported theme developers. I guess today can be considered “National Declaration of what Matt, WordPress et all thinks about it Day”. You can read all about the legality of the GPL license and how WordPress themes are affected by it. For those lazy folk, here’s the meat: PHP in WordPress... [Read More...]

Remember the WordPress Titans

June 28, 2009 · 23 Comments 

It’s been a long time since I’ve really put any deep thought into a post here on my blog, but today I’m feeling the love, and wanted to spread it around. I apologize in advance if this post causes you to grab a tissue, I just couldn’t refuse to write it. For those of you who follow me on Twitter this won’t come as a surprise to you – but for those who don’t, this morning I discovered a major premium theme affiliate program fraud ring. I hate to say that it’s been happening for months – I won’t... [Read More...]

Magazine Theme – Thoughts So Far?

June 23, 2009 · 91 Comments 

I want to thank all of you who left a comment on my post Revolution Magazine Theme – Bring It Back? I was on vacation last week and unfortunately couldn’t reply to them all, but I did read them. Anyway, I won’t waste any time – I’ve started development of the Magazine theme by StudioPress, and am looking for feedback. Take it for a test drive, and let me know what you think. Here’s a screenshot of the homepage so far, note that the tabber section is back: Here’s a screenshot of the theme options page so... [Read More...]