evolutionary designs
Site Will be Going down For a Few Hours
Jul 12th
Hi guys, just a quick post to let everyone know that I will bring the site down for a few hours to remove some old plugins, clean up the database, and to start some testing on the theme that is about to go live. If you see any weird design issues or the maintenance page up, that’s because I am still working on it.
I plan to work on it late tonight, some throughout the day on Thursday, and Friday. As mentioned before, the site will go down for only a few hours at a time. I will continue to publish More >
January 2011 Google PageRank Update
Jan 20th
Today there was good news for those that care about Google PageRank. Personally, I really do not care about pagerank that much, and I pretty much thought Google wasn’t planning to update the pagerank toolbar anytime soon. Google keeps telling everyone that toolbar page rank isn’t all that important and not to worry about it. But, SEOs and online marketers will not let it go and I do not blame them. Having a good page rank can help website owners have a better chance at getting higher price for ad space on their sites, their site is consider an authority More >
Its Been A Year Since Starting Evolutionary Designs
Dec 31st
Wow! The year went by fast. It feels like only yesterday I started researching design niche blogs and if I would be able to do one. After a few weeks of research, I changed my mind and decided to go a little broader and start a new media blog. When I had started Evolutionary Designs, I had only been blogging for about a year and eventually I let that blog go. I still own the domain and the site is still up, but I no longer update it and the traffic is next to nothing. I do not consider that More >
Tools I use for Designing and Blogging
Oct 22nd
Recently, I have had several readers ask me what tools I use for my design work and blog work. Today, I thought I would share those tools with my readers. As a designer and blogger, I use a wide variety of tools. Some of those are expensive and some are free.
First, I want to explain a little about what I do offline. When I am not on one of the many social networks I am part of of, I am generally working on a project or I am at school working on a project. Currently, I mostly do design work and More >
Issues with Posting!
Oct 4th
Last Friday I was having issues with posting a certain post. You may have gotten my dead links from Twitter, or any of the other places I post my RSS. I am sorry about that. First, let me explain what happened and why I am a bit frustrated with WordPress and LiveWriter. When I create my posts I generally use Microsoft Word or Open Office for the text and then copy paste it over to LiveWriter to format for the web. Since I started using this process, I have found several bugs with LiveWriter and they deal mostly with uploading to More >
Manually Install Digg This to Your WordPress Theme
Aug 31st
Earlier today I finally came to the decision that I wanted to add a Digg submit button the post page of Evolutionary Designs. Originally I really didn’t like the buttons, but after the redesign of the button and the site’s new look, it grew on me. In the past I used Digg Digg for Digg submission but the plugin did not look very good with my site’s theme, and playing with code didn’t seem to help.
Rcently I tried to get Dig Dig To work on the site after the programmer updated and added a lot more features. But I did not like More >
New Logo Banners Designs for Evolutionary Designs
Aug 9th
I have been building and designing websites on and off for several years. Last year, I decided to take this from hobby to a part-time freelance job. Because of this decision and with gardener friend’s husband I became the Director of Sales and Web Designs over at Enternet Now! After, working with Enternet Now! for a few months, I decided I needed to go back to school and learn more about design and development so I could start building logos and creating themes for our WordPress Clients.
Here are a few logos I created for Evolutionary Designs. Of course, I am not a More >
External Comment Systems May Not Be the Best Option for a Blog Owner
Jul 8th
Until recently I was a big fan of aftermarket comment systems such as Disqus and Intense Debate. Both are great systems but they do have some reasons why you would want to think twice and do your research when selecting a comment system. Each system basically does the same thing but each one has special features the others do not. These features can be helpful and some are just for fun.
The down side to using external comment systems is your comments are no longer stored on your site, but on another site, you give link juice to comment system website and not More >
Site Updates – Issues with Intense Debate WordPress Comment System
Jun 15th
Over the last few weeks Intense Debate commenting plugin for WordPress has been giving me headaches. For some reason, the comment system is scrambling the comments, not showing all comments, and putting weeks old comments with brand new comments. So if you see any posts that seem to have a lot of old ramdom posts, do not worry or get to confused, I have sent several emails to Intense Debate last week and sent another last night requesting this issue be resolved. My original email was sent from Intense Debate’s site and it took them a few days to get back to More >
Site Updates
Jun 6th
Over the last few days I have made some changes and did some testing of few plugins and customization to my theme. For those that follow this blog regularly, will notice that I have removed the Sexy Bookmarks social bookmarking plugin from my site and I no longer have any of the major bookmarking tools setup. Do not fear, I will be updating the site and adding more buttons over the next week, if time permits.
After I got back from vacation, I updated Sexy Bookmarks and after the update, it no longer worked with my theme. So I tried to setup More >
Took Some Much Needed Time Off
Jun 4th
It’s been a few days since I last posted. I normally would have made several posts during the week, but since it was a holiday weekend, my wife and I decided to take some much needed time off and take a six day vacation away from social media, work and friends. Of course, we really didn’t shut down the computers, but we avoided social media, blogging and work. I only checked email every so often to make sure I did not have any new business requests. Since we are about 6 hours from the beach we decided to spend our More >
CommentLuv has Redesigned and Updated the Plugin
Aug 18th
Posted by James in design
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Earlier today I was catching up on some reading over at Famous Blogger and I came across an article Hesham wrote about CommentLuv making new design changes to the plugin. The new changes include, bug fixes, updated badges, click tracking, and Dutch translation. Naturally, after reading up on the articles from Famous Bloggers and CommentLuv, I had to update Evolutionary Designs. In order to make the updates, I had to install the new plugin manually. The new plugin has not been updated when looking at the comluv plugin through the dashboard.
NOTE: To install the new pluging simply Delete the old plugin from your installed plugin More >