Custom WordPress Theme Design

Here is a photo restoration that I did for Tamara this morning. It is her grandmother’s siblings.

and here is the orginal:

I can help save your memories from age and wear by digitally restoring your old family photos - starting at only $50. Just click over the contact page and let me know you are interested in photo restoration.

Yes, I know that I haven’t been posting, or even tweeting that much over the past couple of weeks - but it is because I have been busy cranking out the custom wordpress themes.

My latest client says:

Is there anyway that I could have my site added to here: http://imjtk.com/jtk-portfolio?
Also would you like me to write you a testimonial.. You did a great job!

I think you did just write me a testimonial Jonathan, at the risk of being redundant, good clients make good projects ( and the converse is just as true…. ) and you were as smooth as butter to work with.

I’ll try to do better posting the WordPress themes I create as I knock them out, and I might even get time to update that portfolio one day….

Not to be confused with the seminal What I think I think series, these are what I think are the best things I’ve posted on twitter and the kind of random, iconoclastic goodness you can expect if you follow me….

• I don’t have anything against ms. Sotomayor but I think if you want to seat her you should have to replace Scalia with a Buddhist.
• There has to be a mathematical formula that can show the percentage of time a NBA star gets a call proportional to his magnitude.
• Billups is a really good player, but I just can’t imagine a stadium chanting Chauncey, Chauncey, Chauncey…
• Why are the clients that drive you crazy asking “are we there yet” the same ones that take forever 2 pay the balance when you’re finished?
• The Ed Show makes me long for “Tucker”. When Tucker Carlson is a better talk show host then you, you need to re-evaluate.
• Man, adding that 3rd color is like adding the 4th chord….
• #Netfilx - I hope u r listening - not only did u just lose a customer u lost an un-paid evangelist. netfilx + silverlight = suxor
• Olbermann is a bad ass, Hannity, errrrr, not so much: http://tinyurl.com/cmjvsn If (were_kids) then hannity = “bawk-bawk-bawk”
• I’m not gay or black but it surprises me how many African American’s think “separate but equal” is appropriate for gay rights.
• If the Republicans were really only about limited government, individual responsibility and economic freedom I would be one.
• Don’t believe that Republicans want the govt out of your life - they just want to insert govt somewhere *else* in your life.
• Once one becomes established, the biggest trick is figuring out which clients one should *not* take on.
• A client changed a 1em line-height to a .1em and then was mad because his WordPress theme was broken…
• Energy and transportation are perfectly feasible in a voluntary society. Government is force.
• For the record, vegetarian chinese and mexican is just as good as regular chinese and mexican…
• I should have a Teevee show. Joe Scarborough has one, how hard can it be?
• Next time someone says something like “I don’t know where you find the time” ask them how much teevee they watch.
• You have to love clients…. Verbatim quote from a client this morning: “It’s been great working with you. So far.
• The Obama administration is arguing that the U.S. can never be sued for spying. Take a bow for the new revolution.
• What the first lady is wearing is not news and if that is what you are reporting on you are not a journalist.
• A company to big to fail is too big period. Failure is part of the capitalist system, if you don’t allow failure you don’t have capitalism.
• My Fellow Americans: Neither you, I, or that other brother has a “right” not to be offended. Get over yourselves.
• Here you go - my new official slogan: It’s not Red vs. Blue, It’s the State vs. You.
• If you are using twitter like a mass mail app you are doing it wrong.
• #262626 is the new #000000
• 1st rule of life - the only constant is change. 2nd rule of life - don’t be a douche-bag.
• Good country is just as good as good blues which is just as good as good rock which is just as good as good funk which is..
• Every December Romo chokes like a Linda Lovelace wanna be.8:08 PM Dec 28th, 2008 from web in reply to samblak
• After thanksgiving still full, getting back to work holiday Haiku
• How could NBC’s Football night in America have possibly come up with a more annoying theme song then MNF’s Hank William Jr’s

Hey now, that’s right, I am completely booked up - and thanks to some very patient clients I am booked well in advance. So if you need your custom wordpress theme done quickly you should look elsewhere.

I am also running behind ( shocking ) but current clients should take heart, I am knocking wp projects out left and right - and the last client said:

Thank you - it’s 100% perfect! I couldn’t ask for a better service! Thanks, and I’m sure I’ll use you again.

One of the reasons I stay behind schedule is that I am willing to set up hosting and buy a temp domain ( gratis ) for a client if it is an emergency - I’ll even do content, if that’s what it takes

However, I will be wrapping up a number of projects this weekend as well as tying up a half dozen loose ends. Stay tuned…

PS - if you know a good WordPress theme developer that is reliable and reasonably priced tell him/her to contact me, I am sure I can send some business their way.

Here are some Twitter sized background type images that I created, use them as you like but some link-luv would be appreciated.

Note: The Microsoft Silverlight team is working to see if we can resolve this, I will report back in with the details asap.

As regular readers of this blog know, I love(d) Netfilx, I have been a happy customer since almost the beginning of the company and their streaming service moved them into a whole new stratosphere imho.

But the last 24 hours has left me feeling screwed.

It started when the latest in the never ending patches from Microsoft were installed on the computer that I have used to watch streaming Netflix movies for over a year. One of the patches involved installing IE8 which is fine, but evidently that triggered Netflix into “upgrading” my netflix player to the Silverlight version.

Of course now anything I stream from Netflix is unwatchable. Choppy video, pauses, dropped frames, you name it - total crap. So I called Netflix and in less than a minute spoke to a very nice lady in tech support that basically told me that’s just the way it is. She suggested that I buy a new computer. I asked her if I could roll the upgrade back or somehow stream the movies differently and she politely told me no, I could take it or leave it - and she was happy to cancel my account for me!

That’s not change I can believe in!

She also suggested that I contact Microsoft, yeah right lady, have you ever tried to contact Microsoft? The nice lady in the Netflix support center also said that even though I was having problems there wasn’t a widespread problem. I beg to differ:

Netflix Users Seething Over Microsoft Silverlight
Netflix takes heat over Silverlight-based player
Netflix Promises Silverlight Solution for Slow, Painful ‘Stream Load’ Issues
If anyone finds out how to opt out of Silverlight on Netflix, please post!
Netflix customers up in arms over the new Netflix Silverlight player

I could go on, but the bottom line is don’t piss on my leg and tell me that it is raining. The problem is not my computer, or my isp, or anything else on my end. The problem is that Netflix decided to go with a 3rd party’s proprietary software that is ( imho ) not ready for primetime. I have no way of knowing if it is Silverlight itself or the Netflix version - but it is much, much worse than the previous version on the Netflix player and has made the Netflix streaming service unusable for me.

Netflix has turned a long term customer and un-paid evangelist into an anti-proselytizer and an unhappy ( soon to be ) former customer.

Final note, I told the nice tech support lady that if she really thought that I was having a isolated incident that she could search Google for Netflix + Silverlight.

She told me that what she really thought was different from her job. Fair enough and Nuff’ said.

I’ve said it before - good clients make good projects, and Derek from over at Super High Resolution is one of the best clients I have worked with in a long time. He had a very clear idea about what he wanted his custom WordPress theme to look like and communicated his ideas very well.

He, his blogging partners, and I are all very happy with the way it turned out - stop by and check it out if you are into gaming, not only is it a good looking WordPress theme, they have a ton of good content there as well.

Hey Now, it seems like all of the custom WordPress themes I have been doing lately are “white label” jobs - that is I am to remain behind the scenes while other get the credit. And that’s cool except that I don’t get to update my website with the new work that I have been doing.

Ionix Hiring is a clean little WordPress theme I did the other day and while it is simple it is exactly what the client was looking for. One neat new addition is the J Post Slider plugin that I used for the head. If you are looking for a plugin to show dynamic content that you can associate with posts this is a good choice.

Adam is still moving into the site so be patient, but I fully expect to see this site take off in the next couple of weeks.

Note - obviously this is only intended for adults, and this is just a recipe, proceed at your own risk. This is just how we roll, your millage may vary.

Get a couple of 12 ounce bags of cranberries and crush’em up as best you can. In a large glass jar take the cranberry mash and add a cup of sugar and a fifth of good vodka. Cover it up and store it in a cool, dry, dark space for a month or so, stirring it daily.

When sufficiently cured take you tamberry concoction and strain out the big hunks of cranberrys. Add some crushed ice, a lime slice, and a vanilla bean cut in half - and that’s our Tamberry Vodka cocktail.