Cloning a remote WordPress site in your local computer
This is a trick that I usually use when I need to clone an existing WordPress installation in my local computer.
If the data was designed or positioned differently, would you still make it a table?Jorge Pedret
If the data was designed or positioned differently, would you still make it a table?
Loading Google Maps API on demand
Here’s another quick snipped that I used recently to load Google Maps on demand.
Require.js including multiple files and managing packages
This is a quick way to manage packages or including multiple files using require.js.
Fontomas
This tool helps to combine iconic webfonts for your project. With fontomas you can: Make a limited symbols subset, with reduced font size, Merge symbols from several fonts to single file, Access large collections of professional-grade open source icons
Solving postMessage issues with form submissions in IE
Last week I started using the Ben Alman jQuery plugin for posting messages between different windows. Although it worked marvellously in modern browsers, Internet Explorer wouldn’t work properly for some cases. We’re currently using postMessage/receiveMessage to dynamically resize an iframe inside our client’s page. The plugin works in most browsers, including IE. But in my case, it was [...]
How to translate WordPress’ admin to a different language?
While traveling in Venezuela, I was helping a friend setup his first WordPress site. He loved every single part of it, except that it was all in English and he wanted to see it in Spanish. Que problem-o.
Using a different language for WordPress’ admin, was something I’ve always wanted to learn, so I started looking around and I couldn’t believe how easy it was…
The key thing to understand is that the rules of SEO aren’t magic or arbitrary. They’re based on the goals of a search engine, which is to find relevant results.Matt Legend Gemmell
The key thing to understand is that the rules of SEO aren’t magic or arbitrary. They’re based on the goals of a search engine, which is to find relevant results. Relevance implies genuineness, and genuineness implies trust. So, shockingly, you should try to make your site’s content trustworthy, genuine and relevant. All of the rules [...]
Separating Photoshop Layer Styles Into Their Own Layer — A Method & Craft Video
Check out Luke Holder from Method & Craft on “Layer Style Jailbreaking”. He show us how to make Photoshop Layer Styles separate into their own layer and some reasons why we want to do that.
COOQ’s Landing Page
After a lot of work and tweaking around things, we’ve finally made live the landing page for COOQ (http://cooq.com/). I’d love to hear your feedback!
Those businesses that miss this opportunity will find a slipping point that may eventually give way to Digital Darwinism, the evolution of consumer behavior when society and technology evolve faster than you.Brian Solis
Wrapping text around images in Photoshop
Learn how to make texts in Photoshop that can be shaped. Wish I knew about this trick earlier, as the author said, is not as obvious as you want it to be. Great video by Adrian Taylor from Method & Craft. They always have the best tricks that you really didn’t know about. Here’s a [...]
Phil Coffman on Creating Tileable Textures in Photoshop
I’ve been looking for a while for a tutorial that explains how to do tileable textures in photoshop. Two days ago I stumbled on Phil Coffman’s great video tutorial (from Method & Craft) explaining exactly what I wanted. Definitely must check it out!
Branding style for a construction related website
I created this design really quick to show a client some ideas I had in mind for his construction related iPad app’s website. This is the original sketch for the character: As always, any comments are appreciated!
Post of the day: Characters brainstorming
I’m creating a mascot character for a client’s business, and this is part of the brainstorming process: One of my favorite steps of this job . Here’s one of the characters that I came up with during the brainstorming session: For generating ideas my favorite thing to do is draw for hours whatever comes into [...]
Post of the day: Landing Page Sneak Peek
Now that I have a couple of characters designed, I started putting together the landing page. Wasn’t 100% sure about the button, I think it looks nice, but don’t know if it matches the style that we’re going for. I’d love to hear your comments please, anybody! In case you’re wondering, the purpose of this [...]
Post of the Day: Cool Cook
Full size illustration. Quick sneak peek from one of the chars I’m working on.
Post of the day: A mangiare! (Illustration)
I’ve been collecting inspirational pieces for the last two weeks and studying the work from dribbble awesome artists like Jayde Cardninalli, Glenn Thomas, Lydia Nichols, Shiu Pei Luu and many others. So here is the first vector illustration I’ve ever done. The cloud and text look a little bit out of place, but I was [...]
Placeholder text for Gravity Form input elements
Surprisingly GravityForms hasn’t implemented the placeholder feature yet. I know they have plans on doing so soon, but we need a solution while we wait for that. I came up with this quick solution using only GF filters and jQuery. Check it out!
About me
My name is Jorge Pedret and I'm a creative, self-taught Web Developer with more than 9 years of experience.
I'm currently living in Vancouver, Canada, where I run a small design & development agency and work as a web developer and front end designer.
