http://www.designshifts.com Everything Graphic Design and Web Development Fri, 01 Feb 2013 04:13:25 +0000 en hourly 1 http://www.designshifts.com/wordpress-theme-building-adding-coloured-content-boxes/ http://www.designshifts.com/wordpress-theme-building-adding-coloured-content-boxes/#comments Fri, 01 Feb 2013 01:30:31 +0000 Topher http://www.designshifts.com/?p=2402 Pin ItI 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 [...]]]> http://www.designshifts.com/wordpress-theme-building-adding-coloured-content-boxes/feed/ 0 http://www.designshifts.com/amazing-illustration-by-joe-fenton-a-work-in-progress-solitude-20102011/ http://www.designshifts.com/amazing-illustration-by-joe-fenton-a-work-in-progress-solitude-20102011/#comments Tue, 15 Jan 2013 03:35:47 +0000 Topher http://www.designshifts.com/?p=2365 Pin ItI 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!]]> http://www.designshifts.com/amazing-illustration-by-joe-fenton-a-work-in-progress-solitude-20102011/feed/ 4 http://www.designshifts.com/25-beautiful-fonts-for-web-designers/ http://www.designshifts.com/25-beautiful-fonts-for-web-designers/#comments Wed, 09 Jan 2013 16:22:17 +0000 Topher http://www.designshifts.com/?p=2361 Pin ItI’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 [...]]]> http://www.designshifts.com/25-beautiful-fonts-for-web-designers/feed/ 0 http://www.designshifts.com/wordpress-optimize-the-recent-post-widget-exclude-categories/ http://www.designshifts.com/wordpress-optimize-the-recent-post-widget-exclude-categories/#comments Wed, 12 Dec 2012 00:24:45 +0000 Topher http://www.designshifts.com/?p=2351 Pin ItI 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 [...]]]> http://www.designshifts.com/wordpress-optimize-the-recent-post-widget-exclude-categories/feed/ 0 http://www.designshifts.com/installing-apache-tomcat-7-0-x-on-osx/ http://www.designshifts.com/installing-apache-tomcat-7-0-x-on-osx/#comments Fri, 23 Nov 2012 20:01:59 +0000 Topher http://www.designshifts.com/?p=2342 Pin ItI had to install Apache Tomcat recently for a project that I was working on and found a lack of clarity with the instructions that where provided. So I end up founding this article for Wolf Paulus to be a very easy to follow and a helpful set of instructions for properly installing Apache [...]]]> http://www.designshifts.com/installing-apache-tomcat-7-0-x-on-osx/feed/ 0 http://www.designshifts.com/beautiful-collection-of-handcrafted-rings-designed-by-wood-skateboard-rings/ http://www.designshifts.com/beautiful-collection-of-handcrafted-rings-designed-by-wood-skateboard-rings/#comments Mon, 15 Oct 2012 19:54:03 +0000 Topher http://www.designshifts.com/?p=2332 Pin ItHere’s a beautiful collection of handcrafted rings carved from broken skateboard decks. There are carved from all sorts of different broken skateboard decks so you get a great variety of colors to choose from.  You can find them for sale on Etsy.com and there is also a PDF ring sizing guide if you need [...]]]> http://www.designshifts.com/beautiful-collection-of-handcrafted-rings-designed-by-wood-skateboard-rings/feed/ 0 http://www.designshifts.com/chalk-art-by-david-zinn/ http://www.designshifts.com/chalk-art-by-david-zinn/#comments Mon, 15 Oct 2012 00:38:29 +0000 Topher http://www.designshifts.com/?p=2328 Pin ItI would love to see these as I walked around town! Find lots more great art work on his website zinnart.com]]> http://www.designshifts.com/chalk-art-by-david-zinn/feed/ 0 http://www.designshifts.com/15-more-fun-t-shirt-designs-by-designer-glenn-jones/ http://www.designshifts.com/15-more-fun-t-shirt-designs-by-designer-glenn-jones/#comments Tue, 02 Oct 2012 01:30:26 +0000 Topher http://www.designshifts.com/?p=2324 Pin It Check out the first round as well! http://www.designshifts.com/15-t-shirt-designs-by-designer-glenn-jones/      ]]> http://www.designshifts.com/15-more-fun-t-shirt-designs-by-designer-glenn-jones/feed/ 0 http://www.designshifts.com/15-beautiful-concept-designs-by-kait-kubar/ http://www.designshifts.com/15-beautiful-concept-designs-by-kait-kubar/#comments Mon, 27 Aug 2012 16:36:56 +0000 Topher http://www.designshifts.com/?p=2314 Pin It]]> http://www.designshifts.com/15-beautiful-concept-designs-by-kait-kubar/feed/ 0 http://www.designshifts.com/15-redesigned-vintage-punk-flyers-into-typographic-style-posters/ http://www.designshifts.com/15-redesigned-vintage-punk-flyers-into-typographic-style-posters/#comments Fri, 27 Jul 2012 18:06:26 +0000 Topher http://www.designshifts.com/?p=2309 Pin ItI love coming across fun projects like this.  From the site: “swissted is an ongoing project by graphic designer mike joyce, owner of stereotype design in new york city. drawing from his love of punk rock and swiss modernism, two movements that have (almost) nothing to do with one another, mike has redesigned vintage punk, hardcore, and [...]]]> http://www.designshifts.com/15-redesigned-vintage-punk-flyers-into-typographic-style-posters/feed/ 0