Is Using WordPress Themes Frameworks Cheating at Web Design?
I read a very interesting article over the weekend titled “Are WordPress Themes Cheating in Web Design?” by James Dalman. That article itself was inspired by an older one titled “Confessions of a...
View ArticleNew Design & New Headway Theme Framework
I finally took the time to put up a new design I can live with for this blog (for now… this is again temporary). I trashed the design with the gray header and took a new direction. This uses the same...
View ArticleMy Journey to PHP: Converting webfocusdesign.com
As I hinted in an earlier post about my move to WordPress, one of the reasons for that decision was to help me learn PHP. I am well on my way and I have now created one client site with PHP (simple...
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4 Great Plugins For Controlling Spam On Your WordPress Blog
If you’ve been running a blog with even a moderate amount of traffic, you know that one of the biggest annoyances that come with it is spam. Whether is comes in comments, trackbacks/pingbacks or fake...
View ArticleThe Real Pixelyzed 3.0 is Live (and Back with Headway)
Sometime last week I finally finished the “real” pixelyzed 3.0 redesign and switched the theme of the site back to Headway. I’m very happy to be back to Headway and will talk about it more in future...
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I Will be at WordCamp Montreal 2011
WordCamp Montreal 2011 is coming in July and I will be attending this great event for the second time. When I was there last year, I was just starting to get serious about WordPress and had done a...
View ArticleGet Headway Before November 25
Many of you know that, since I’ve started working with WordPress, the only theme I’ve used on any client project is Headway. Headway is not “just” a theme like the multitude of premade themes (free or...
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The State of My 2012 WordPress Toolset — Themes
The last few months have been my busiest since I started freelancing full time in August 2008 and I’ve also had to tackle some of my most complex WordPress projects. This means I had to re-evaluate...
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The State of my 2013 WordPress Toolset — Themes
When I wrote the 2012 version of this post last year, I did not expect it to become the most commented post on this blog ever. It made me realize that there is a real hunger for information about...
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I Will Be at WordCamp Montreal 2013
WordCamp Montréal 2013 is coming in late June and, as is becoming a tradition for me, I will be attending this great event for the 4th time! It seems that the more experience I get with WordPress,...
View Article4 Basic Criteria for Evaluating a WordPress Theme Framework
I will soon be writing reviews for some of the main WordPress plugins and theme frameworks that I use in my client projects. But before I do that, I wanted to write a post explaining the basic criteria...
View ArticlePixelyzed.com 5.0 is Now Live, Powered by the Genesis Framework
This weekend I decided to work on my own projects for a change, something I had not had the luxury to do for quite a while, client work always coming first. I took the time to complete a redesign of...
View ArticleTheme Review – WooThemes Canvas
This review of WooThemes Canvas is my first theme review after writing my 4 Basic Criteria to Evaluate a Theme Framework post a while ago. I chose to start with Canvas because it’s a theme I’ve used...
View ArticleLast Chance to Get CobaltApps’ Dynamik Web Site Builder and Genesis Extender
Note: CobaltApps has extended the deadline to get Dynamik and Extender under the old unlimited licensing until Thursday May 29th @ 9am EDT. If like me you use the Genesis Framework (and if you don’t,...
View ArticleThe State of my 2014 WordPress Toolset – Themes
These State of my Toolset posts are becoming a annual tradition on pixelyzed.com and this year will be no different. If 2012 had been a year of all around stability and growth for me and my business,...
View ArticleI Will be at WordCamp Montreal 2011
WordCamp Montreal 2011 is coming in July and I will be attending this great event for the second time. When I was there last year, I was just starting to get serious about WordPress and had done a...
View ArticleGet Headway Before November 25
Note: I’m leaving this article up for “historical” purposes but, please note that I no longer recommend Headway. I’ve had far too many problems with it after I published this post. Try it if its...
View ArticleThe State of My 2012 WordPress Toolset – Themes
The last few months have been my busiest since I started freelancing full time in August 2008 and I’ve also had to tackle some of my most complex WordPress projects. This means I had to re-evaluate...
View ArticleThe State of my 2013 WordPress Toolset – Themes
When I wrote the 2012 version of this post last year, I did not expect it to become the most commented post on this blog ever. It made me realize that there is a real hunger for information about...
View ArticleI Will Be at WordCamp Montreal 2013
WordCamp Montréal 2013 is coming in late June and, as is becoming a tradition for me, I will be attending this great event for the 4th time! It seems that the more experience I get with WordPress,...
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