It's Called Web Design » Lloyd Armbrust http://itscalledwebdesign.com Web 2.0 is so 2004. . . . Fri, 27 Jan 2012 16:59:14 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.1 Pretty Parchment http://itscalledwebdesign.com/theme/parchment/ http://itscalledwebdesign.com/theme/parchment/#comments Thu, 20 Nov 2008 22:15:04 +0000 Lloyd Armbrust http://itscalledwebdesign.com/?p=582 Pretty Parchment is a WordPress theme designed with an earthy cotton-paper look–I can almost feel the paper cuts!

As usual this WordPress theme is released under the PGL. This includes the CSS, XHTML, and design–and you can do whatever you want with it!

So, feel free to spruce it up and personalize it with your own images, or burn in on a CD and bury it in the snow out of shear spite! I even made it super easy for the average teenage clown to remove my credit link in the footer! Go ahead, annex my glory!

But seriously, if you do something cool with it, let me know and post a link in the comments below.

Download the Pretty Parchment WordPress theme (as soon as WP approves it).

Here’s an demo site.

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A special thanks goes out to Rachel Novek for some of the visual elements like the ribbons and other crafty things. Without her amazing-artsy background this theme would not have been possible.

So you know: everything in this theme, including the CSS, XHTML, and design, is released under GPL (this means that you can do whatever you want with it).

So please, take my credit out of the footer, add your own images, turn it into a robot and friend it on facebook–I don’t care. I mean, it’s not like I spent three hours bug-fixing the thing for IE6 until the veins in my forehead exploded!

But seriously, if you do something cool with it, let me know and post a link in the comments below.

Download the crafty wordpress theme

]]> http://itscalledwebdesign.com/theme/crafty/feed/ 12 Untheme two-column http://itscalledwebdesign.com/theme/untheme-two-column/ http://itscalledwebdesign.com/theme/untheme-two-column/#comments Mon, 17 Nov 2008 19:46:37 +0000 Lloyd Armbrust http://itscalledwebdesign.com/?p=564 This theme was designed as a starting place for new blog designs.


In the past, before I start a new project, I would spent about 20 min cleaning Kubrick, the WordPress default template, of everything that I never use in blog design. After putting together over 30 different blogs/websites in this manner, this wasted time has really added up–which gave birth to the Untheme.

The Untheme series will have many different layouts to match the basic styles that currently exist in modern web design, but they will all be very general, and will include everything necessary for a stable WordPress blog design.

As I imagine is the case with the majority of WP themes out there, most of the PHP, XHTML, and CSS for this theme was found and adapted from the Kubrick 1.5 theme found at: http://binarybonsai.com/kubrick/

Everything (CSS, XHTML, and “design”) is released under GPL: http://www.opensource.org/licenses/gpl-license.php

This means that you can do anything you want with this theme–including printing its code on a t-shirt and lighting it on fire! (But please, send photos if you do this.)

Download here: Untheme two-column (1197) (44.4kb)

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Anyway, I’ve made it easy and cutout the middle so that you plot your photo right where you want it.  You can use the PNG if that’s all you need, or use the PSD to get rid of the shadow, the white, or change it in anyway you want.

Download here: EasyPolaroid (643) (1 PSD, 1 PNG, 1934kb)

Here’s an example:

As always, use freely for anything. If you make money on this, good on you. You could leave a comment if you want, but you don’t have to. Please don’t direct link to the file, just link to this post if you’d like.

]]> http://itscalledwebdesign.com/tutorials/photoshop/polaroid-photos-made-easy/feed/ 2 Create PHP web submission forms in minutes http://itscalledwebdesign.com/tutorials/php/create-php-web-submission-forms-in-minutes/ http://itscalledwebdesign.com/tutorials/php/create-php-web-submission-forms-in-minutes/#comments Thu, 16 Oct 2008 19:41:49 +0000 Lloyd Armbrust http://itscalledwebdesign.com/?p=409 Easily create a slick PHP submit form in minutes with absolutly no coding experience needed. Simply go here: http://phpformgen.sourceforge.net/new_demo/phpformgen/ and use the generator.  It’s free and easy.

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  1. Basic HTML Structure
  2. Text formatting
  3. Text headings
  4. Paragraphs in HTML
  5. Breaks and header rule
  6. The importance of spacing
  7. HTML Entities
  8. Lists or bullet points
  9. Intro to links
  10. Anchors and internal document linking
  11. Intro to images
  12. Importance of the ALT tag
  13. Relative and absolute file paths
  14. Linking images
  15. Intro to validation
  16. The <!DOCTYPE>
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  1. Basic HTML Structure
  2. Text formatting
  3. Text headings
  4. Paragraphs in HTML
  5. Breaks and header rule
  6. The importance of spacing
  7. HTML Entities
  8. Lists or bullet points
  9. Intro to links
  10. Anchors and internal document linking
  11. Intro to images
  12. Importance of the ALT tag
  13. Relative and absolute file paths
  14. Linking images
  15. Intro to validation
  16. The <!DOCTYPE>
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  1. Basic HTML Structure
  2. Text formatting
  3. Text headings
  4. Paragraphs in HTML
  5. Breaks and header rule
  6. The importance of spacing
  7. HTML Entities
  8. Lists or bullet points
  9. Intro to links
  10. Anchors and internal document linking
  11. Intro to images
  12. Importance of the ALT tag
  13. Relative and absolute file paths
  14. Linking images
  15. Intro to validation
  16. The <!DOCTYPE>
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Table of contents for Learing HTML 2

  1. Basic HTML Structure
  2. Text formatting
  3. Text headings
  4. Paragraphs in HTML
  5. Breaks and header rule
  6. The importance of spacing
  7. HTML Entities
  8. Lists or bullet points
  9. Intro to links
  10. Anchors and internal document linking
  11. Intro to images
  12. Importance of the ALT tag
  13. Relative and absolute file paths
  14. Linking images
  15. Intro to validation
  16. The <!DOCTYPE>
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  1. Basic HTML Structure
  2. Text formatting
  3. Text headings
  4. Paragraphs in HTML
  5. Breaks and header rule
  6. The importance of spacing
  7. HTML Entities
  8. Lists or bullet points
  9. Intro to links
  10. Anchors and internal document linking
  11. Intro to images
  12. Importance of the ALT tag
  13. Relative and absolute file paths
  14. Linking images
  15. Intro to validation
  16. The <!DOCTYPE>
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