Hello, my name is Jhames

It’s been a long time since I’ve written anything, and I blame the previous design iteration of my website for that. I was unmotivated to interact with my site because I was never really happy with the overall design—like when you have a child that never seems to do anything right but you still love it (just not on any level below the surface). I built the previous iteration in keeping with the advent of HTML5. I did my best to keep DIV tags structured to SECTION, ARTICLE, and ASIDE. I liked the visual grid and layout of text in the design, but the actual design itself was a constant thorn in my side. The design wasn’t true to my aesthetic and I feel like I rushed something to market because of reactions to what I had done before. Kind of like the new … Continue reading →

Hey kids! Fun story. Know what happens when you install the new WordPress 3.0 beta? It breaks your previous template! And then you don’t have anything to show people except a blank screen. How fun is that? Oh, the good times. Stay tuned, I am incredibly busy and will hopefully have all sorts of good news to share with you. And maybe a working WordPress template. Who knows!

Back in the day (puff) a friend of mine* started an online project called 5 Things New York, based on the original 5 Things in Washington, D.C. Now it seems everyone has a 5 Things list of some kind. So, naturally, I have to jump on the bandwagon. Here is what I am currently absorbing on the world wide web: Richard McCoy is a freelance designer in the UK who wrote a rather brilliant post how The 10 Commandments apply to design. I like how Richard blends advice with a healthy dose of affirmation in this post, and I would love to see it as a poster. Ian Stewart is a graphic artist that is presenting a 12-day/post course How To Create a WordPress Theme. I’m willing to overlook his grammar and syntax for what, so far, has been an incredible resource. I only … Continue reading →