The Graphic Design Shop

Wordpress and Conditional Menu Items

michaelkrapf — Wed, 17 Feb 2010 03:08:33 +0000

Over the past couple of weeks, I have been working on a paid membership site. The site handles Content Protection, Payment Processing, and Dynamically Generates a Membership Card. We used Wordpress as the foundation of the site and during the process, there were a few features that I had a hard time finding [...]

Interview with Web Designer Arthur Cundy

michaelkrapf — Sun, 14 Feb 2010 01:16:20 +0000

Arthur Cundy is the CEO and founder of 3Eleven Creative, a Brooklyn, New York based design studio offering a full menu of creative services. Arthur is a self taught web designer that is making quite a name for himself. Q: Since you didn’t go to school for web design, how did you learn? A: Well, first [...]

Create Your Own IPhone Icon

michaelkrapf — Fri, 15 Jan 2010 18:32:49 +0000

Wouldn’t it be cool to have your very own custom IPhone icon? Well you can with this quick and easy tutorial. I’m going to break this down into 3 steps. Design Creation Code Design The first consideration is the design. Since the IPhone icons are only 57px X 57px, you want your design to be simple and to the [...]

Google Docs To Create A Mobile Form That Tracks Expenses

michaelkrapf — Mon, 07 Dec 2009 19:47:29 +0000

I am very nerdy when it comes to tracking personal and business expenses. The problem is that I am usually away from my computer when spending money. I do have an IPhone, but it’s a pain in the rear to enter transactions into my Google Apps spread sheet via the mobile interface. [...]

Run more than 5 Cron Jobs on Media Temple Grid Hosting

michaelkrapf — Wed, 28 Oct 2009 19:08:11 +0000

I’ve been very happy with Media Temple thus far and the Grid Hosting that they provide. I did however run into a bit of frustration when I discovered that they only allow up to five cron jobs. So I did what any designer would do and found a developer! Enter Graham Dawson. Graham [...]

Interview with Freelancer David Hackett

michaelkrapf — Thu, 24 Sep 2009 19:06:37 +0000

David Hackett is the creative director of Nomadic Multimedia, a company which was set up in 2009 after moving to Singapore. Prior to this he worked as a self-employed graphic designer in Washington, DC, Buenos Aires, London and New York City. Q: What is the best part about being a freelancer? A: Freedom. I am mobile, [...]

Ultimate Notifier Turns out to be Ultimate IPhone App

michaelkrapf — Mon, 07 Sep 2009 19:04:56 +0000

With the release of IPhone OS 3.0 came Push technology to the IPhone world. For those of you who are unfamiliar, there a two basic ways in which your IPhone receives notifications for email, twitter messages, etc. Fetch – the phone sends a signal to check for any new messages. This is a major [...]

Drupal: Receive an Email when a reader leaves a comment

michaelkrapf — Tue, 18 Aug 2009 19:02:40 +0000

Here is the scenario. We’ve created a blog using Drupal (don’t ask why, just because) and have written the most interesting blog post. After announcing the new post on every social media site that we can think of, we wait. I don’t know about you, but I’ve got more important things to [...]

Link to ITunes for a Blog Post

michaelkrapf — Mon, 17 Aug 2009 19:00:27 +0000

Okay, let’s say you have found the best IPhone app and you feel it deserves attention in your blog. As a service to your readers, it only makes sense to provide a direct link to the app in ITunes. But how do you do it? Apple provides a tool that does just that in [...]

Firefox Add-ons for Designers

michaelkrapf — Sat, 15 Aug 2009 18:59:04 +0000

First of all, I have upgraded to Firefox 3.5, so all add-ons in this post are 3.5 compatible. With that being said, I’ve used Firefox for some time now. Many add-ons have come and gone, but this is a list of my tried and true. Firebug – Web Development Evolved. ColorZilla – Advanced Eyedropper, ColorPicker, [...]