About
I’m a 29-year-old web designer and developer from Chicago. I do contract/freelance website design & development, e-commerce design, and logo design. Prior to going freelance, I worked at a fun dot-com where coded Flash games, managed video content, occasionally wrote and acted (both live-action and voice talent).
I write in HTML, XML, CSS, PHP, jQuery, AJAX, JavaScript, and ActionScript. I love the Adobe Creative Suite, TextWrangler, Firefox Safari, and WordPress. I really like hand-coding. I love anything open-source, and web-based applications.
I also play roller derby for The Windy City Rollers, where I also serve as a member of the Board of Directors, as a consultant to the Creative Committee, and as a jammer/pivot for my team, The Manic Attackers.
Up With Skirts is my playground.
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Software:
This blog uses Wordpress 2.7.1, with my customized version of the Fauna theme.
Plugins Used:
AddQuicktag 1.5.7
by Roel Meurders, Frank Bültge 
Allows you to easily add custom Quicktags to the editor. You can also export and import your Quicktags.
Breadcrumb Navigation XT 1.7
by Michael Woehrer
Adds a breadcrumb navigation showing the visitor's path to their current location. For details on how to use this plugin visit Breadcrumb Nav XT.
bsuite_innerindex 0.0.b1 Sep 28
by Casey Bisson
it’s pushy about creating indexes, and some people don’t like its text
Content with show/hide javascript for "more" 1.4
by Jennifer - Scriptygoddess
A modified “the_content” command so that it uses the “show/hide” javascript. (Thanks to Tormod: http://journal.boblycat.org/tormodh/ and Kendra for their help)
FormBuilder 0.77
by TruthMedia Internet Group
The FormBuilder plugin allows the administrator to create contact forms of a variety of types for use on their WordPress blog. The FormBuilder has built-in spam protection and can be further protected by installing the Akismet anti-spam plugin. Uninstall instructions can be found here. Forms can be included on your pages and posts either by selecting the appropriate form in the dropdown below the content editing box, or by adding them directly to the content with [formbuilder:#] where # is the ID number of the form to be included.
Get Custom Field Values 2.1
by Scott Reilly
Easily retrieve and control the display of any custom field values/meta data for posts, inside or outside “the loop”. The power of custom fields gives this plugin the potential to be dozens of plugins all rolled into one.
Insights 1.0.1
by Vladimir Prelovac
Insights allows you to quickly search and insert information (links, images, videos, maps, news..) into your blog posts.
Our Todo List 2.0
by Wordpress By Examples
A simple todo list to share ideas/todos with blog members. All members work as a team to manipulate the list under “Manage”. A variant derived from AbstractDimension’s Todo List Plugin.
SyntaxHighlighter Evolved 2.0.0
by Viper007Bond
Easily post syntax-highlighted code to your site without having to modify the code at all. Uses Alex Gorbatchev’s SyntaxHighlighter and code by Automattic.
Tangofy 0.1.9
by Demetris
Better icons for the admin menu of WordPress 2.7: Select an included icon set (Fugue, Silk, Tango, Tango 2) or add your own!
Twitter Tools 1.6
by Alex King
A complete integration between your WordPress blog and Twitter. Bring your tweets into your blog and pass your blog posts to Twitter.
User Photo 0.9.4
by Weston Ruter
Allows users to associate photos with their accounts by accessing their “Your Profile” page. Uploaded images are resized to fit the dimensions specified on the options page; a thumbnail image is also generated. New template tags introduced are: userphoto_the_author_photo, userphoto_the_author_thumbnail, userphoto_comment_author_photo, and userphoto_comment_author_thumbnail. Uploaded images may be moderated by administrators. This plugin is developed at Shepherd Interactive for the benefit of the community.
WP-Imagefit 0.4
by FactoryCity
WP-Imagefit is a plugin that extends jQuery to proportionally resize images posts to fit the width of the containin column. Original jQuery Imagefit plugin written by Oliver Boermans.
WP-PluginsUsed 1.40
by Lester 'GaMerZ' Chan
Display WordPress plugins that you currently have (both active and inactive) onto a post/page.
WP-ShortStat 1.14b
by Markus Kaemmerer
Track your blog stats. Visit Dashboard|ShortStat. Based on Shaun Inman’s ShortStat and Jeff Minards’s plugin wp-shortstat 1.2
wp-typogrify 1.6
by Hamish Macpherson
Prettify your web typography by preventing ugly quotes and widows and providing CSS hooks to style some
WP lightbox 2 0.6.3
by Safirul Alredha
Lightbox JS v2 is a simple, unobtrusive script used to to overlay images on the current page written by Lokesh Dhakar. Add rel=”lightbox” attribute to any link tag to activate the lightbox. This plugin integrate its feature into your WordPress blog.
wpSEO 2.5.1
by Sergej Müller
The wpSEO plugin helps you optimize your blog for SEO purposes by eliminating issues with duplicate content and specifying meta tags and page titles for the different pages of your blog.
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