Hi, welcome to ClarkLab. I make websites. This is my blog.
Another member of the And Me Network, Droid Week is a weekly Android app and game showcase. Each week, users nominate a new Android download to be featured and voted upon. At the end of each month, we tally the votes and name a Download of the Month (over on Android and Me).
Android and Me is one of the largest Android only sites on the internet (I suspect we may be the largest but until I can be sure I’ll have to stick with one of the). When we started the site it was just using an out of the box template but with the site’s growth I had the opportunity to build something a little more custom. I also rebuilt the forums. Soon we are launching Android Road Trip and a number of other Android specific sites.
Frank is a template for displaying a stream of social activity online. Frank can read, cache, and display all the items and updates in your WordPress, Twitter, Flickr, Vimeo, YouTube, and/or any other RSS or Atom feed you throw at it. Frank uses SimplePie (PHP required) to display items from any feed or combinations of feeds. Frank can display just your latest tweets, your flickr photos, your blog posts, or all three at the same time. Frank can also paginate the items for easy browsing.
Since his release, Frank has garnered a few template-geek honors. It was a featured item at ThemeForest and was even tweeted by Collis, the owner of the Envato network. Frank is currently for sale at ThemeForest for the crazy low price of $12.
I don’t blog about it much here but my brother Taylor and I run Android and Me, an online news source and community dedicated to Google Android. Today, we are leaving on the Android Road Trip, a 2600mi round trip from Austin, TX to San Diego, CA. We are going to attend the Motodev Summit and the CTIA Wireless IT and Entertainment Expo. I wrote a much longer and more interesting summary of the trip and how to follow our progress over on Android and Me, so go read about it there: Android Road Trip: Saturday We Ride.
Today I released a new HTML/CSS template for sale over at ThemeForest. The design is one I released months and months ago, but the template has been rebuilt from the ground up. Its now powered by jQuery and has dynamically rendered custom fonts thanks to Cufon. It also now comes in four tasty color schemes, all of which you can test out on the demo page. Sorry for the self promo, but a boy’s gotta eat!
Big things are afoot. They are organizing. Ok that might be overstating it a bit, but you’re still not going to believe the lineup of illustrators on board over at Kingstrike, a new illustration-for-sale site launching today. Kingstrike is the brainchild of Texas-based illustrator (and now fancy businessman) Reilly Stroope. Also participating are Ray Frenden, Paul O’Sullivan, Chris Bishop, and numerous others. Seriously, go check out the stable of artists over at Kingstrike.
From the site: Kingstrike is an easy way to browse new designs from Artists all over the world. Each apparel design is unique to Kingstrike and won’t be found elsewhere.
At time of launch, they’ve got a dozen illustrations up, ranging from $200 to $450. The prices seem totally reasonable considering you get exclusive apparel rights to the file and its delivered digitally at the point of purchase. Got some spare money laying around? Well now you can start a tee company.
Make Something Cool Everyday. That is the idea behind a new Flickr group that I originally spotted over at YayHooray. The overall challenge is simple: each day, take the time to make something awesome, then post the results for others to see. One of my favorite participants so far has been Mark Weaver. Over in his personal MSCED flick set there are already 44 posts. Among them are some real gems, like my personal favorites Skullbeard (pictured here), Puffin, and The Crow and the Anteater.
He also recently released his first print, Deer Anatomy, a limited edition run of 50 prints, signed and numbered, printed on Pop-Tone French Paper. Head on over to his site, his flickr set, or his store to see more.
ThemeForest is a new template and theme marketplace from envato. I recently saw they were looking for authors on their blog, In The Woods, a “blog of all things themey.” So far I’ve contributed three articles, with more on the way. Read the rest »
There is a new contest running over at LoonDesign giving away a whole slew of free website templates. LoonDesign is hosting the contest, giving away a theme of his own, along with many donated from the ThemeForest community and premium theme club ElegantThemes. I threw in two copies of QuikTab, my new premium, one-page WordPress theme powered by jQuery. It’s available now for just $12 on ThemeForest.
Ok, enough talk, head on over to the contest page on LoonDesign for a shot at some great, free templates and WordPress themes.
A while back I saw Fray was holding open submissions for it’s Geek Issue. I submitted my Nerd Crest illustration and it ended up getting chosen for the cover. I’d known for a while now but was waiting for it to be public information before I posted about it. Also, as a special gift for subscribers, they printed the crest on a limited edition run of pocket protectors. Pocket protectors are so geeky I think I would rather just have ink run all over my shirt than be forced to wear a plastic pocket sleeve, but its still cool they went the extra mile. Head on over to Fray to see my illustration all over the place and while you’re there SUBSCRIBE.
Drop down menus are a really convient way to fit a large menu into a really small initial space. For a long time people have just used a form element for standard drop downs, but with minimal effort you can create a much slicker effect using jQuery and CSS.
Out of concern for my readers (and NOT sheer boredom) I recorded this video about making cajun tartar sauce. I know tartar is an easy recipe, but I’ve got a few twists the classic (jalapeno dills!). My brother and I are thinking about finally getting around to starting up our long-time-coming cooking blog, BBQHeroes and wanted the ability to post cooking videos. I recorded this to test out my new Flip Mino and I think it performed pretty well. I’m only posting it here to complement my recent shrimp recipes.
I know this post probably doesn’t feel like it belongs here, but I enjoyed cooking the food and taking the pictures so much I just had to post it somewhere. In case you don’t already know: I cook a lot. Its one of my favorite hobbies. My flickr is filled with pictures of the dishes I’ve created. I thought it’d be nice to share some recipes and photos here on the blog. Today we are making Bacon-Wrapped Jalapeno Shrimp and Garlic Shrimp Scampi. Read the rest »
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