I was shown some code that I guess I have taken for granted for a long time. I never thought about it, I just saw the affect and it looked right. I could ask the simple question; where should the footer go? You all know the answer I’m sure, which is the bottom of the page. But what happens when you have a page with very short content? The footer tends to do a little creeping on you.
Yeah, I am That Guy
A good friend of mine, Ted, let loose an awesome site a couple of weeks ago. We have all been “that guy” at one time or another, and Ted has now given us a place to rag on one another. YeahIAmThatGuy.Com is a genius place to go and complain about “that guy.” Go check it out, and submit to the good cause. You can also hash tag #YIATG on Twitter.
-matt
Yeah, There’s a Plugin for That
We joke quite a bit here in the office about how many WordPress plugins there really are. Currently in the WordPress Repository, there are well over 6,000 plugins for download. Although I would not recommend all of them, there a tons of excellent plugins that can make your site do pretty much anything you want. Of course, I have a few favorites.
Preface: I realize that two of the plugins on the list are written by a coworker of mine, Chris Jean. Funny thing is, I have been using his plugins since before I knew him. They are amazing!
New Site Design
Welp, if you are here, and have been here before, you probably noticed that it looks different. I’m going for a bit of a minimalistic thing, since this is now going to be mainly a blog, and not a showcase of my photography. If you still want to see that for some reason, just click here. This is the main design that is going to live here for a while. Small changes are inevitable, because I like to tweak things until they look like crap again.
Redesign and Rebrand
Knowing what I now know, after only a few months on the job at WebDesign.Com, I am ready to do a site redesign. Don’t get me wrong, I love the site you see before you, but I am ready to start out the RIGHT way. With all the work to get it to the “right” way, I might as well redesign, right?
I want my site to look good, and focus will definitely be put on that. But more importantly, I want my site to be found easily. Over the past few weeks, I have literally become obsessed with SEO on client sites. WordPress offers so many opportunities to get a great Google ranking, and I want to build my site from the ground up for Google. When I started this site, I barely knew what a meta-tag was. Now, I am pretty competent with the tricks of the trade.
Married Life of a Photographer
Ok, I guess I kind of fell off the map for a bit. But it was all for a reason. Jessica and I are now married, and it feels great. It has been hard to maintain the blog while trying to get everything done for the wedding, and maintain a job (gotta pay those bills). We had a great wedding, and a fantastic honeymoon. We did the whole cruise thing, and I really enjoyed it. Now it is back to work at iThemes. Actually, I am writing this from the lobby of a hotel in Dallas where I am with the team from iThemes for WordCamp Dallas ’09. So far we have had a pretty good time. The conference doesn’t actually start until tomorrow, but we are here a day early to get some “team building.” Not sure what that means. Mostly just hazing Cory.
conjure the occasional portmanteau. Besides web, I am also a photographer. At one point, I was actually going to school for photography, but a 
