Hey everyone, I know it has been a while from my last post, and I know I am severely slacking on the “Building a Personal Brand” series. No, there is not really a logical excuse for this madness, just swamped with client work at the moment, which is always a good thing for any business, but freelancers especially. So what is the reason behind this post? Well the other day I was working on a client site and was attempting to have a height on a sidebar that extended from the top of the containing div to the bottom. I, like most people figured well I will just give the div class that I want to extend a 100% height such as this:
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Branding has been on my mind quite a bit lately, and how a brand is perceived. During the last few days I have looked at not only product and company branding but personal branding. That is what I want to write to you about today. I recently read a very strong book from Rockable press entitled: Rockstar Personal Branding. I can say that it is slap full of useful information and processes on how to create a personal brand. I wanted to share a little with you what I got out of the book. I highly recommend this book so check it out at Rockable Press
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Hey guys, this is my first screencast with the new design but it is one that I have touched on before. However, I seemed to have lost the old video so I redid the screencast. This is my first screencast using Screenr, so let me know how you guys like the quality and sound, but also chime in on the actual screencast information. This is a very simple tutorial but they will get more and more advanced, I promise.
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Over time, CSS sprites have become increasingly popular among web designers, coding sites in (X)HTML and CSS. However, you may not understand how to implement them or even where to start, but you know that it is a must when dealing with rollover images. I found a very good CSS sprites generator that will generate the images and the background positions for you. You just have to implement the CSS and apply it to your HTML. Below I have listed a link to a post by Chris Coyier that outlines what CSS sprites are and different ways to implement them. It’s a very good post and one that is very in depth. I have also listed a link to the CSS sprites generator that I have been utilizing over the past three or four months. Very easy to use, so beginners will pick up on it right away!


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After dabbling in wordpress for the past year and a half, I have come to learn about amazing plugins that just makes life easier when dealing with wordpress as a CMS. Some of these plugins are also great even if you are just using wordpress as a blog platform. I have outlined what each plugin does and how it was beneficial to me, and hopefully you can find the same use out of them for your WordPress driven web site and/or blog.

Exclude Pages:
This plugin is awesome, because it allows you to have multiple pages without listing them in your main site navigation.  When using wordpress as a CMS, you can do the following tag to display the pages that are added into wordpress like this:
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Hello everyone and welcome to the all new CoreyMade web site. It has been a very long time that my site has been out of commission due to lack of backups, coffee and extreme client work. However, today is the official launch of the all new brand. I have decided on making the site more professional, and sleek. If you recall the other site was good, but in retrospect was just not working out for me. As you can see I have a whole new look from the logo, to the journal that you are reading now. I get asked a lot why I always change my site design. It’s actually quite simple. I get tired of things really quickly. However, with this design I have vowed to keep it and update it as much as possible with new portfolio entires, interesting journals and useful screencasts.
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