The concept for this site was to make a premium WordPress powered theme to showcase the art and design work of Kamran Samimi in a slick, modern way. The site is made to handle many projects which can be filtered by type (categories, tags). Each project opens and closes in the same page seamlessly via ajax. A cool feature of this site is the full screen, randomized background images that change upon each refresh or page change.

Some of the inspiration from the site came from tylerwolff.com as well as the popular Cargo framework. The site makes use of many CSS3 techniques, jQuery, jQuery Masonry, jQuery Backstretch, and of course the Carrington Framework.

WordPress HelpCenter not only acts as a way to get immediate support questions answered, the website also serves as a hub for affiliates, theme and plugin developers, and provides detail on WordPress HelpCenter pricing.

The theme encompasses all the plugin and theme detail pages, including FAQs. It also drives the user / affiliate dashboards where plugin and theme details can be submitted to the WordPress HelpCenter.

Executive English Solutions is one of my favorite developments to date. Focus was placed on clean, sharp execution, with a smooth and engaging user experience.

This project was customization to the core! The bespoke 3D graphics, and striking yet tasteful executive appeal deserved an equally impressive code base.

The Carrington Framework worked perfectly for the re-imagining of this brand. The UI makes extensive use of jQuery and custom templates to afford the client a great deal of customization and flexibility. Every inch of this site makes use of this powerful framework provided by Crowd Favorite.

Our main focus for AP was the M&A alerts, these custom posts required a print layout and easy navigation once a M&A Alert was in view. Navigation was our second focus, we provided custom page templates to provide a manageable secondary navigation throughout the site.

I tried to push the limits with this theme.

The homepage is pretty standard except for the custom options I built into the theme to select the page that pulls in the about section and the category selection for the featured post.

The portfolio is where most of the action is. I modeled the cfct_action to pull posts based off category. The result is a portfolio that sorts through AJAX’d query posts.

The blog is just a category loop, creating cat-blog.php files for markup made me smile since I knew after creating those files I just needed to do some additional CSS and I’d be done — no fussing with custom filters.

There’s also some additional page templates that I customized in style and function. For example, the Testimonials pulls in comments from the projects category.

It was a long overdue design refresh. I ended up focusing on the classic blog style with syndication from multiple social sites: my latest tweet is show at the head of the blog and my Google Shared articles are pulled and posted.

Carrington allowed me to create a ton specific markup for each type of post, on the homepage each type of post is not only styled different ( using post class ) but the markup is different. For example, my review articles have post-thumbnails and in the future I’ll be styling these reviews different based on media type.

I also ended up using typekit and some CSS3 techniques to round it out.