Great WordPress theme for creating a pattern library
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…
SEO for non-dicks
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!
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!
Get pages by template name in WordPress
Quick post to show how to retrieve pages by certain custom template. Example of use List all the published pages that use the template “page-quote.php”: How does it work? The template assigned to the page is stored as a meta data by the key ‘_wp_page_template’. Using the get_pages() WordPress function, we can ask for the [...]
Post of the day: Landing Page Sneak Peek
I’m creating a landing page for my client’s startup and this is how it’s looking so far. This is a really exciting project that I have the honor be working on. Can’t tell you how much fun I’m having designing and putting all my neurons to work to generate new creative ideas. This is not [...]
Accessing the URL hash and parameters using Javascript
You can access the URL of your page using simple Javascript by using the following code: document.location;
Post of the day: Ze zecret is love
Played a little bit trying to achieve an old school cartoon style for a coming up project. Any comments?
Post of the day: Cooks of the World
Today I started drawing a set of characters that are going to be included in the final design for my friend’s landing page. So far, in my illustration career, I’ve only drawn random characters, so it’s been a challenge to keep a consistent style across all the drawings and repeating the same character doing something [...]
Post of the day: Japanese Chef
See full res image One of the characters that I’m developing for a client of mine. Not approved yet, but just wanted to show the progress and create a fun shot 
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.
