Leigh :) Stark

Category: …and Everything

  • SackBoy reaches page one on Google!

    Possibly one of the more randomly proud moments of my little project’s life is the knowledge that in under a year I’ve hit the first page of Google for the search term “sackboy”.

    With just under 500 images in the photography project (seriously, 500th image anniversary coming up in June!), I’ve hit well over the original target of “an image a day for the next year”. It hasn’t even been a year yet. It’ll be a year in August sometime.

    And now, the random news that I place fourth on a Google search for “sackboy”.

    The ridiculous thing? I’m even above Media Molecule’s entry on that page, and they made the bloody game!

    Apologies to Media Molecule if they’re at all offended by this. I run this project to spread smiles and laughter since SackBoy seems to make people smile. :)

    Check out the SackBoy Lives Here project at www.sackboyliveshere.com

  • A design that’s truly me

    It’s taken one day to re-develop a theme into something that is well and truly me.

    I’ll give ya’ll the full tour just as soon as I fix the last remaining bugs… but this theme is random enough to be me. And I like that.

  • How hard is it to make an App?

    I might find out after I’m done with my WordPress load. Currently working on quite a few sites, but once that’s done (since very little is paid) I might see if I can revive my old magazine into an app…

    chimp-idea-proto01

    What do you think… how hard could it be? :)

  • WordPress: CityRail never looked so good…

    Ok so after scabbing so many WordPress themes, I’m now going to try my hand at creating one of those nifty premium style themes.

    It of course will be free, and probably poorly designed since I’m not a designer.

    But here’s the first Photoshop piece of my first WordPress theme: “You Fool! You Crossed The Yellow Line!”

    "You Fool! You Crossed The Yellow Line!" is technically the second CityRail theme I had planned... it's just the first to come out of my Photoshop session...
    "You Fool! You Crossed The Yellow Line!" is technically the second CityRail theme I had planned… it's just the first to come out of my Photoshop session…

    There’s already a box under the two articles there that could essentially be used for a 4-5 square Flickr plugin and I’ll probably add a gum artwork or dirty ticket above the menu. The main section at the bottom should always be there according to this design, similar to how MNML works.

    Some comments would be nice though, since I’m not a designer and this is my first real design.

    In case anyone is wondering, the design of the station platform comes from how it looks at Bondi Junction (seriously, look down when you’re there) and while I took photos for inspiration, all of the textures and panels have been generated in Photoshop.