STEVE SHEAD

Creation WordPress Theme

Steve Shead — Tue, 14 May 2013 03:16:40 +0000

The Creation theme for WordPress is a fully responsive theme that looks great on any device. Features include a front page template with its own widgets, an optional display font, styling for post formats on both index and single views, and an optional no-sidebar page template. Make it yours with a custom menu, header image, [...]

WordPress: the value of frameworks, or?

Steve Shead — Sat, 20 Apr 2013 04:47:58 +0000

I’ll keep this short since it’s a concept to think about more than a how-to. Please keep in mind this is just a point of view, my point of view. I’ve played with a few frameworks in my hunt for the ultimate development environment. I’ve used Genesis, Headway and Thesis, to name but three, and [...]

WordPress category rewrite rule

Steve Shead — Sat, 06 Apr 2013 03:27:32 +0000

If you’re like me and use methods such as page-of-posts templates to group posts into pages, you’ll notice that you end up with a URL with the category name in it, such as www.example.com/category/portfolio. Personally I don’t like to have the category name in the URL, so trawling around the web I found the following [...]

Watercolor Dream

Steve Shead — Sun, 13 Jan 2013 06:37:01 +0000

I was following a tutorial on creating a background image similar to this, and decided to take it a few steps further. I melded some images I had previously created, and morphed the process a little left of center – and – here is the result.

Abstract Jungle

Steve Shead — Sun, 02 Dec 2012 06:25:12 +0000

Here’s the result of manipulating images for one of the themes I’m working on. I took a number of images and techniques and melded them together. This is the result. This will be a large splash image on the theme front page, but I love the result.

Some Voyager Repros

Steve Shead — Tue, 06 Nov 2012 03:53:10 +0000

Interestingly enough, using Artmatic Voyager can be a ton of fun too. I took a couple of the template images and added some flare of my own. This included changing the color of the sun; raising the level of the terrain and moving the map around some. Here’s the results.

Frog Scape

Steve Shead — Mon, 05 Nov 2012 03:44:14 +0000

This is another melding of two dramatically different images. As you can guess, one if of a frog, the other is a cityscape. With a simple overlay of the pictures, and a lime green overlay color I got this effect. I decided to get a little more creative and here’s where I ended up with. [...]

New Steve Shead Dot Com

Steve Shead — Sun, 28 Oct 2012 15:43:44 +0000

I’ve recently switched this site over to WordPress using the Genesis framework. I used a base template called “Minimum” and edited it to my liking – the joy of subscribing to Studiopress is being able to use their themes as templates for your own, or as is – even for clients. Part of the edit [...]

Something like a poster

Steve Shead — Sat, 27 Oct 2012 03:49:42 +0000

This is a stock poster with some additional images, and a grunge overlay. I used ‘curl’ shadows on the images, added a large inside stroke and some shadows on the text- there’s an element of bevel and emboss, just enough to take the edge off the font. The social media icons at the base of [...]

Facial Impressions

Steve Shead — Wed, 24 Oct 2012 20:28:56 +0000

This image started out as a black and white stock image. After playing with a couple of filters it morphed to what you see here. The original image is 5000 pixels wide, and it looks pretty impressive.