Secret Weapon Labs

Ladies & gentlemen,
It’s my great pleasure to welcome and introduce Elvgren 1.0 and Taft 1.0 to you, as my first iterations of Wordpress themes. Look at the design of this very page. This is Elvgren.
Taft is a little less standard, image heavy, looks better on a Mac, and still has some quirks to [...]

I’m no longer the Wordpress theme virgin, and being blinded by spoils beyond belief I’m preparing this entry to the Theme competition currently running for Wordpress. Please speak up on any viewing problems… IE blows, we all know ….

So those that follow may have noticed that the presses have run silent, temporarily, in the SWL labs “back at the ranch”. If it means anything, we’re hard at work at some really nice Wordpress themes for the competition being held over at Alex King’s site. There are certainly some nice ones, we’re [...]

Eric Meyer’s thoughts on moms who blog how they can’t handle poopy diapers can be found here. It’s definitely worth a read.

Every once in a while, through the sea of posers, comes a really original and provocative idea. This one is simple, and while not entirely graphically perfect despite the addition of Michael Heileman’s design kung-fu, the technique is still really friggin cool. See below:
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Always the model of ideas to stir oneself out of boredom, Cameron Moll is having another Screen Grab Confab, which is basically a post where all the blog readers take a 320 x 320 screenshot of whatever they happen to be working on at that particular moment. Below is the pending redesign of SWL.com, [...]

Wordpress is certainly one of the best packages I’ve seen. As for a feature I recently discovered I find it to be a brilliant concept, simple, and it works well. Simply write a post, save as draft, bring the draft of the post up again and edit the timestamp to whatever date in [...]

Fifty Four Eleven is an interesting site I was passed on to via Cameron Moll’s blog post on the trials and tribulations of making money as a designer. Regardless, FiftyFourEleven.com’s article on applying optimization and bloat-removal of CSS, caught my attention; it’s definitely worth the read.
When you find solid work and solid knowledge, it [...]

There are a myriad of blogs to consume and tech magazines to read these days. Thankfully, I discovered InfoWorld, which is certainly worth reading/subscribing/browsing. Most of the outspoken writers such asTom Yager, Jon Udell, and Chad Dickerson are knowledgeable and articulate about software, the tech industry, and more. What makes their insight [...]

It seems unfortunate that I never met Mike Wolf. I learned about him through a blog. I learned more by reading his blog. And I eventually learned about his passing suddenly by reading a blog.
What is most eerie, is HIS blog.
It’s still there, almost living and breathing as would have [...]