mccormicky

Adventures In Not Getting Hired!

mccormicky — Fri, 19 Jun 2009 18:37:38 +0000

Recently I applied online for a job. I don’t know why I did, I already have far too much work to do…But as a freelancer you do sort of long for steady work… feast or famine is very much part of a freelancer’s life. Ok so this job was right up my [...]

A WordPress Theme Built Especially For The WP-Ecommerce Plugin!

mccormicky — Wed, 17 Jun 2009 03:36:13 +0000

Hi Everybody. For the last few days I have been working on a new theme for WordPress specifically a theme centered around using the WP ECommerce plugin. Right now there is only one other free Premium quality WP theme I know of that is centered around the shopping cart plugin . I’m not competing with [...]

How To Add Introductory Paragraph Text To The Front Page Of The WP-Ecommerce Shop

mccormicky — Sat, 30 May 2009 10:17:20 +0000

And have it show only on the front page of the shop? A client of mine asked if I could add an introductory/greeting kind of message to show to people looking at the front page of his online store. Sure thing, I said and I put it right in and went on my way thinking that [...]

WordPress As A CMS: Getting Started

mccormicky — Fri, 29 May 2009 14:48:45 +0000

So you've already chosen WordPress or are seriously considering it. Maybe you've even already done the famous 5 minute WordPress installation. Maybe you've already chosen one of the free themes or enlisted some paid help getting one made just for you? Whatever the case, you should be very pleased with yourself to have gotten this far and I'll bet you're super jazzed to have your own website that uses your own domain name. Trouble is, now what? How to make sense of the Dashboard? What does what? What do all these crazy terms mean? You're scared to touch anything! Some settings are self explanatory but the only way to get comfortable is to jump in and start looking and reading. If you don't think its a good idea to change a setting, don't. But don't be afraid to at least log in and look at the pages - because just looking does no harm.

I Charge For My Time,Design Work & Support (Not For WordPress)

mccormicky — Mon, 25 May 2009 04:15:40 +0000

Long before I understood GPL & before WordPress decided to yank over 200 non GPL-compatible themes from its Theme Viewer, I struggled with the seeming hypocrisy of charging $ for a theme when what you were really selling was WordPress, itself. Lets get real. Nothing I design to be used with WordPress could be more [...]

Design Fail

mccormicky — Fri, 22 May 2009 15:15:22 +0000

I might be many things but I am not a mind reader. But for the last week I have been attempting to do just that for one person who contacted me through my website about help with their online shop. At first I thought it was going to be a matter of offering a [...]

Georgia or Times New Roman?

mccormicky — Thu, 14 May 2009 18:13:11 +0000

Test your font spotting skilz.

A Brooklyn Mystery

mccormicky — Wed, 13 May 2009 08:54:25 +0000

One early weekend morning not too long ago, I forced the mans to walk with me to Trader Joe’s. Upon approaching the former bank building we saw a horrifying sight! Masses of people were lined up all the way to the new (ish) Urban Outfitters! And here I thought I had been so clever making [...]

Frighten Your Vegetarian Friends!

mccormicky — Mon, 27 Apr 2009 14:10:16 +0000

http://www.austinmeat.com/kobe_beef.htm Love the awkwardly tiling background image!

Waste of Time Award Goes To: ScoopNYC.com

mccormicky — Mon, 27 Apr 2009 12:05:45 +0000

At 1st I dragged a few bags around thinking there was a message under each bag. But nope - just white space. I was persistent because I wanted to see some freakin clothes what I did eventually find was that the site is down. Dudes. If you aren’t as grumpy as I am [...]

Still Get HTTP Errors When Uploading Pics To Your WordPress Posts or Pages?

mccormicky — Sat, 25 Apr 2009 14:05:43 +0000

For the hell of it I installed Faster Image and Scissors and left Flexible Upload activated and I decided to try making new post with all these plugins installed. To my surprise even though there was a nasty php error

Changed homepage_product_functions.php For WP Shopping Cart plugin 3.6.12

mccormicky — Wed, 22 Apr 2009 07:03:27 +0000

Revision! When I was checking the file I noticed a few minor mistakes and un-needed HTML. I also wanted to show an example image from my shop which is installed on this website but is not in production,yet. The example image shows that I have inserted 3 product categories into a WordPress Page. This [...]