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 
Post of the day: Mom who loves to cook
Trying to achieve a cartoonish vintage style for this shot. Learned a couple of really nice tricks in Photoshop, totally worth the time put into it.
Post of the day: Italian Cook
Today I was drawing a set of characters that a friend asked me to do for his startup. The italian cook is just one of them, I’ll post the rest in the following days.
Post of the day: Evil Minion Robot
This is my post for last Friday, unfortunately this drawing took so freaking long! I was trying to practice textures more than everything. Although it doesn’t look super awesome, I learned a lot while working on it. I felt a lot more confortable using Sketchbook Pro this time around. Check out bigger version here:
Post of the day: The villain
(Full size image) I got CreatureBox sketchbook last Tuesday and I’ve never been more inspired to draw! I was amazed at how good they were at using Sketchbook Pro, so I decided to give it a shot today (tonight)
Post of the day: Mini Stove Icon Design
I had a meeting today with a really cool guy and he told me about this crazy idea he had for his startup logo. The icon I designed is just the base for that idea, but it still looks pretty cool . Everything was designed in Photoshop from scratch, using real life pictures (of my [...]
Post of the day: Magak Logo Design
For today’s post I chose to design a logo for my friend who’s just getting his business started and to be honest had a crappy logo (to say the least). It hasn’t been approved yet, but thought I might share it here. Designing is becoming so addictive! Post your comments or say something if you [...]
Post of the day: Zombie Attack
Today’s post, I’m experimenting painting with water color. Really like the effects that you can get with them, a lot more texture and color mixing colors is a lot of fun .
Resizing WordPress Images with AJAX Thumbnail Rebuild
This is a quick post on how to resize images from WordPress media library after they’ve been uploaded. What’s the current problem? Once you’ve uploaded images to the media library, it’s impossible to resize them to the new sizes that you’ve added using add_image_size() function. How does AJAX Thumbnail Rebuild solves the problem? Although the [...]
Post of the day: Lt. Callahan — Police Academy
Me and my girlfriend have been watching the Police Academy series for the last 2 weeks, so I chose it as my theme for today’s drawing. Not 100% happy with it… The sketch on pen was kinda good, but the coloring didn’t go as good as I wanted it to. I feel like I could [...]
Post of the day: Future of Epic Meal Time
My third daily shot… It was pencil drawn, scanned and finished in Photoshop. I wasn’t really planning to post a finished piece, but got carried away playing with different styles in Photoshop and kinda liked this one. If you don’t know who “Epic Meal Time” are, go youtube them
Post of the day: Sketchy Alley
A little bit late, but here’s my second daily post. Let me know what you think! I’m going to be posting shots like this every day, so subscribe to my rss via email and don’t miss any of the shots. I will also be posting them in my Dribbble account.
Post of the day: Chef LaPierre
Following Nick Campbell‘s advice, I’m going to try to post something every day to take my design and illustration skills to the max! 
The point of posting the stuff I’m doing is to get over the fear of criticism, so please tell me what you think!
Finding Placeholder Images for your Designs
Here are 3 tools that I’ve been using lately to show placeholder images in the sites I design: Lorempixum, Flickholdr & Placehold.it
Read this before hiring your next developer / designer
“Don’t interview anyone who hasn’t accomplished anything. Ever.”
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.
