Tag: Design

The New SummerChilde.com

I‘ve been so busy lately building websites for others that I’ve been neglecting my own. So I thought I’d spend the day restyling my site and updating some of the content and layout. The biggest change is the site name and address. As most of you know, SummerChilde is my real middle name and since I’ve had the domain name for a while I decided to make it my primary for the site. No need to update bookmarks or anything since I still have justinslewis.com pointing here as well.

For a while now, I’ve been wanting to focus the site toward the creative projects that I’m working on and things I find online and in the world that get me inspired to create. On SummerChilde.com I’ll primarily be posting how-to articles about paper journaling and book arts as well as selected poems and essays of I’ve written. For more personal posts I’ll be using Facebook, Twitter, and my paper journal. I’ll also be contributing to the Soupy Sunday blog and the web design blog at Keri Marion Design.

February 14th, 2010

Oeuvre
Crows: A Free WordPress Theme

Screenshot of Crows theme.

Today I decided to create a free theme for WordPress based on my current blog theme. The design and customized CSS is all mine but the theme coding is from the Cutline theme by Chris Pearson. The Cutline theme is my favorite WordPress theme to customize since I’ve been using it for so long and know the code inside and out. For this design, I’ve added a few customizations: a favicon, drop cap styling, and a wrapper for a more organic “outside of the box” header design.

The Crows theme is FREE. Visit Keri Marion Design to preview the theme or download for your WordPress blog. If you decide to use the theme, feel free to comment on this post or drop me a line with your blog url.

Special Instructions:

Drop Caps:

To use the drop cap styling, start your post in HTML view in the post editor. Before the first letter of the first sentence add (without the outside quotes) “<span class=”cap”>” and immediately after that first letter add (without quotes) “</span>”. It should look like the letter “T” in the first paragraph of this post.

Favicon:

I included a favicon with this theme. To use it you will need to copy the file “favicon.ico” from the images folder and paste it into your root directory then upload it.

November 10th, 2009

Oeuvre
Autumnal prose

Leaf I picked up in the backyard and scanned.

Fall is here. The leaves are changing. The houses in our neighborhood are decked out in Halloween decorations. The scent of wood fire fills the evening air. The ground is slightly damp from last night’s thunderstorm.

It’s quiet tonight and we’re busy creating here at the Mauran Avenue pad. Keri’s working on her latest series of pencil drawings. I’ve just finished designing the current theme for the blog. It’s only temporary until I’ve gathered all the imagery I need for the next theme which will be based on my paper journals. It will be a real challenge to see how well I can pull off the design. For now, this current theme will do just fine.

Later tonight is the U2 live webcast at the Rose Bowl. The full concert will be broadcast on youtube for those interested in watching. I’ll be kicking back with a couple cans of ‘Gansett and enjoying the show.

October 25th, 2009

Oeuvre

Tag: Design

The New SummerChilde.com

Crows: A Free WordPress Theme

Special Instructions:

Drop Caps:

Favicon:

Autumnal prose