I know what you’re thinking to yourself: “Why would I want my Wordpress posts date to be completely replaced by images.”

Just kidding. I don’t know why you would think that to yourself. Let’s face it, with the advent of CSS, we’ve all resorted to replacing what would be normal text markup (words on the page) with images because as designers and creatures of aesthetics, we like things to look unique…and there’s only so much uniqu-ity you can show with standard HTML.

So I’ve taken the already available features of PHP in Wordpress and used it in conjunction with CSS to make totally replaced (and web-standards compliant) dates.

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calendar, css image replacement, dates, images, photoshop, PHP, tutorial, wordpress

I love to make mix CD’s. It never fails that I have one of two things happen:

1. I want to use a song that has a secret song 5 minutes after the song is over, thus taking up at least 2 songs worth of music on the mix
2. I want to put the secret song & not the first song or the dead space included, in the mix.

The Old Solution: I would take it into Garage Band (which isn’t readily available to EVERYONE) which took about 5 minutes to splice it down and export it and reimport it into itunes.

All along, I could have done it easily in iTunes.
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apple, damien rice, eskimo, Garage Band, iTunes, mix cd, music, quick track edit, secret song, tracks

The other day I was sitting at my desk and thought to myself, “Paper clips are so cool. They do such a great job at keeping things organized and still maintaining that ‘disheveled, unorganized look’.” This unorthodox thought process led me to also think, “I bet a paper clip would be really cool as a design element for my website.” So I decided to try to replicate one, from scratch, in photoshop.
I thought it turned out pretty good. So good, in fact, I decided I’d show you how to do it.

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adobe, bevel and emboss, drop shadow, effects palette, layer mask, marquee, office utilities, paper clip, photoshop, satin, scratch, stroke, toots