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Chris Anderson

Chris has a real passion for design and loves to share inspiration and tutorials with the design community. He’s the curator here at designshifts.com, a freelance web consultant and developer and has a passion for the great outdoors.

WordPress Theme Building: Adding Coloured Content Boxes

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I was recently asked by a client if there was an easy way for them to add coloured content boxes into a Pages or a Posts.  The quick answer was yes, not a problem! Here is an example: Enter content box text here. All you need to do was add a bit of CSS and [...]

Amazing Illustration by Joe Fenton – A work in progress – ‘Solitude’ 2010/2011

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I can’t imagine putting this much time into one piece, but then again when you see how unbelievably beautiful this is, it makes me want to give it a shoot!…Just need to clear my schedule for a year or so… :)  Enjoy!

25 Beautiful Fonts For Web Designers

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I’ve decided to put together a great 2012 round-up showcase of 25 of the most beautiful fonts that I came across, some are great for print work and others for use on the web if you put the @font-face to use (or find them in the google fonts library).  Enjoy! Let me know what you [...]

WordPress: Optimize the Recent Post Widget – Exclude Categories

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I was trying to find a way to exclude categories from the Genesis theme ‘Featured Post’ widget and got a bit sidetracked and ended up finding this useful piece of code for the ‘Recent Post’ widget. Not what I wanted but I’m sure will come in handy! I hate to say I can’t remeber where [...]

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