WellMedicated - Inspiration Overdose

The original wellmedicated layout, before it was recently rebooted,  had a rather high-concept design.  The basic idea being: “every website aligns to the top of the browser, I want mine to align to the bottom”…arrogant, I know.  Not surprisingly, this was easier said than done.  However, I did manage to figure out a way to pull it off by modifying some javascript from this a list apart article.

The final result is a script that detects the height of your browser and the height of your content “above the fold” (in pixels) and then offsets said content the difference of the two.

I am pleased to announce the release of my first free WordPress theme: Grass Roots.

Being that this is my first public-released theme, I tried to make it as easy to install as possible.  No plugins, add-ons or doo-hickeys required.  Although, further customization options are available (if you’re into that kind of thing).  Please see the readme.txt file included for more information.

This is a very simple little trick that I figured out by accident.  It is likely common knowledge, but I didn’t know about it and thought maybe there were more out there like me.

In this tutorial I’m using Photoshop CS3 (I’m sure older versions will do the trick as well) and very little Photoshop knowledge is required as it’s ridiculously easy.  So load up Photoshop already and lets get started.

There has been a trend emerging in web design lately that is rather hard to miss: the use of blindly bright shades of red.

To me, this is a rather surprising and unexpected trend.  I would imagine designing with such colours would either require some monitor brightness tweaking or a constant flow of Tylenol to ward off emerging headaches.

That being said, these are certainly original,  eye catching and memorable designs that really stand out from the crowd – and that is one of the best advantages you could ask for.

With new design blogs launching left, right and center (present company included), being a self-taught designer is easier than ever.  It is thanks to these online resources, ideas and tutorials that our fingers are kept on the pulse of the design collective.

That being said, if I ever found myself stranded on a desert island and miraculously had access to 10 design blogs (you never know, it could happen), this would be them:

Wellmedicated was a very short-lived project of mine that has been collecting dust for too many months now.  It was a grab-bag-anything-goes blog with no real subject at heart.  In just a few short months wellmedicated has joined the ever growing wasteland of abandoned blogs and forgotten websites – for this I am sorry.  In all of five blog posts I’ve built a tiny handful of loyal readers who are remarkably still subscribed and undoubtedly losing hope.  If you’re reading this, I probably mean you – yeah you.