Nudgeville was created by Melbourne blogger Arnold Aranez, also known as Mr Gadget, after a bit of a run in with Digg and the whole Digg banning that went on recently not to mention how it’s all but impossible to get a front page story these days on Digg because it so heavily leans toward tech stories by ‘the big blogs’. I grabbed... (more...)
Seeing as I wrote an article about some of the Free WordPress themes I like to work with, learn from, etc. I figured I should follow it up with a Premium WordPress themes article. First off what is a Premium WordPress theme? The main definition is a simple one, it’s a theme that you pay for. Now here’s where it gets tricky, WordPress is... (more...)
Recently, and I don’t know why it didn’t click earlier, but I’ve been noticing a lot of website design credits in footers of websites, ie. Website Design by Freelance Matt. To me this seems a little strange as you’ve hired a builder to build you something, when you get a house built you don’t have a permanent ‘This... (more...)
Vintage and Retro website design, graphic design, and photography are very hot right now. I’ve actually been playing around with putting together a video tutorial for real grain effects in Photoshop, hopefully coming online soon. Anyway, overnight Smashing Magazine put together an awesome resource on where you can find 35 Beautiful Vintage... (more...)
WordPress has all but become the content management system (CMS) of choice be it for traditional use as a blog, a magazine style website, or even a company website. The community of people behind WordPress from the core development team through to the theme developers have made it what it is today. WordPress takes minutes to install, minutes to... (more...)
The newest update for the Thesis Theme has just been set loose on the world. The big news in this update is all the extra options in the theme’s control panel. There’s a pretty comprehensive list over on Kingdom Geek, and you can download the Thesis Theme here. Read More →
Today is a landmark day in the history of Newcastle. On a lovely sunny Friday morning the first ever Newcastle ‘Tweet-up’ occurred. In attendance, apart from myself, was Gordon Whitehead from The Marketer, Carlee Potter from the newly launched business women’s magazine Snobs, and last but not least, Belinda Leskiw from Classy Marketing. So... (more...)
Well here it is, Mathew Packer.com v4.x, the re-design that I’ve been working on for the last month. What do you think? So far I’ve had one comment that is helping me do a few further tweaks to the layout. Vlado commented that it wasn’t that easy to work out what was new content and what was old content, that’s a fair call... (more...)
I’d all but forgotten about EntreCard until I received the below email this morning. Figured I might give it another go seeing as they’ve changed a lot of their policy in terms of credit limits and pricing of advertisements which were two things I thought let the system down in the past. If you’re on EntreCard this blog is super cheap... (more...)
I’ve been busting my butt the last couple of days and nights to get the new Cool and Stuff website up and running. So far, so good, with the site. The traffic is building up nicely, there’s been loads of content to publish and I’m pretty damn happy with the layout of the site so far. In other news related to Cool and Stuff I will... (more...)