Category: Blog

Building Blocks to get more features in 2.0

April 20th, 2010
Building Blocks Wordpress theme 2.0

Building Blocks is a free wordpress theme template I created to be used as a starting point for custom theme development. It provides a basic structure and styling of a wordpress theme that usually takes several hours to build if you choose to start from scratch. Currently Building Blocks is especially well suited for blogs and other simple sites. However, with the next point release, there will be many new features added that will make it a terrific starting point for ...

Web Internship

January 4th, 2010

Recently I was granted the Web Design Internship position for the non-profit organization Wuqu Kawoq, which is a small organization focused on providing basic health care services to the indigenous Kaqchikel Maya in Guatemala. My main task will be to move their current (static) site to Wordpress, giving it a much more manageable Content Management System. The internship lasts until the end of Spring, 2010.

East Asian Studies

September 24th, 2009

Two weeks ago, I was offered the web design position for the Department for East Asian Studies at the University of Kansas. I accepted. They needed their old website converted to a new design, one that matched a universal theme of the Unversity of Kansas' website. Mostly this involved a lot of copy and paste from file to file, transfering new scripts to old shtml pages. The conversion process took me a little over a week to complete, working two hours per day. ...