This isn’t a new topic, but I had the need to create a custom jQuery selector today, so I thought I’d share. Whether you are a jQuery newbie or seasoned pro, you know that jQuery has very powerful selectors. In addition to the class and id selectors, there are over 30 selection expressions that use the colon syntax (:first, :even, :hidden, :input, etc.). If one of the existing selectors doesn’t fit your needs, jQuery provides you the flexibility to create your own!

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Even though my current design is fairly new, I’ve never been very happy with it. As a result, I recently started the process of designing a new WordPress Theme from scratch, and was planning on blogging about my experience.

While researching WordPress Theme tags and functions, I came accross a site called ThemeTation. Launched on June 5th, 2008 by Kai Loon, it is a well designed site that includes a WordPress related Weblog as well as free WordPress Themes (SuperFresh and Blue Blog).

What really caught my attention was the very informative series Kai Loon put together on creating a WordPress Theme from scratch. If you’ve ever considered taking on that challenge or are just interested in how WordPress Themes work, I suggest you take a look:

Part 1 – Structuring, Designing in Photoshop

Part 2 – Slicing and Coding

Part 3a – WordPress Implementation

Part 3b – WordPress Implementation cont.

Thanks Kai Loon!

I stumbled across this site today and thought it was worth mentioning. It offers a service that helps programmers, designers, writers and entrepreneurs connect.

From ProgrammerMeetDesigner.com:

“This site was created to unite programmers and designers because rarely is a person good at both programming and designing. PMD helps programmers and designers partner up to make websites and web applications that look and work great.

Now content writers and entrepreneurs can also join up to find people to work with.”

What I am most intrigued by, is the ability to look for people interested in partnerships, not just single projects (which is also an option). I have a number of projects that I’m interested in exploring and am excited at the prospect of finding a designer to work with.

So, if you have a project or idea but can’t do it alone, take a look at ProgrammerMeetDesigner.com. Oh, and if you are a designer, who’d be interested in working together with me…let me know