Brian Casel

Web Designer, Entrepreneur

Posts Tagged ‘wordpress’

Welcoming New Users With a Custom WordPress Dashboard & Tour

Here are a few updates to the Restaurant Engine dashboard welcome screen. Trying to make the new website setup process as easy as possible.

Creating Within Constraints (in Music and in WordPress Themes) (huh??)

“If my instructor had said to me, “improvise a melody on top of this track”, I wouldn’t have been able to do it. I would have had no idea where to start or what to do. There are too many possibilities: which strings to hold at which frets, and whether to strum or pluck. It’s [...]

Selectable Color Palettes in WordPress Themes

Last week I introduced my new startup, Restaurant Engine, a website service designed for Restaurants, built on WordPress. Part of the challenge in crafting WordPress themes targeted specifically at non-tech savvy customers (non-developers) is to make them as user-friendly and easy to use as possible.  All of us WP theme developers know the temptation to [...]

Restaurant Engine (my latest thing)

For one reason or another, I’ve been keeping my latest startup mostly under wraps (at least as far as my personal blog and Twitter are concerned).  I recently came to the realization that I’m constantly talking/posting about what I will do and not enough about what I’ve done.  This time, I just wanted to keep [...]

Building a Business Around WordPress

It’s no secret that WordPress is the fastest growing content management system (CMS) platform on the web. As of this writing, WordPress has a 54% market share of all websites that use a CMS. As users continue to flock to WordPress, we in turn see massive demand for WordPress’ products and services. If you’re a WordPress expert, [...]

New Mini-Site For Clean Slate

Since it’s launch mid-way through last year, Clean Slate has been the far-and-away crowd favorite of the ThemeJam catalog.  I’ve received a lot of great feedback from users, which promted me to spend most of December working on a new and improved version 2.0 of the theme. Along with the theme update, I decided to [...]

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