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ArtFork
Wednesday, November 30th, 2011Last week (American Thanksgiving Weekend 2011 — I case this post is super old), Mike Mitchell and I launched ArtFork.
WTF is ArtFork?
ArtFork is a community for people who love art. Plain and simple.
If you find something you like online, or something you’ve spent hours creating, you post it to the site and give others the opportunity to comment on each piece of art. The site is still young and we have tons of plans in the works to make it the best possible community we can.
If this sounds interesting, go ahead and check out the site: http://artfork.com — Code: GETFORKED
An in-depth post about the workings of ArtFork to follow.
The Redesign
Saturday, September 3rd, 2011What runs this site
While the main purpose of this site is to generate clients, It also allowed me to use some new stuff I’ve been waiting to use for a while. Below are a few key features of the site:
- Built with Bootstrap
- Custom shortcode that grabs a file from Github and uses Google Prettify to make it sexy
- Custom shortcodes to deal with rows and columns
- Ajax post navigation using history.js to allow the user to quickly navigate through posts
Why?
A few months ago my site was hacked so I just decided to remove the entire WordPress installation, throw up a quick one pager and try and find some motivation to get a new site up.
Fast forward to now and I’ve finally decided to get a site up. Nothing mind blowing, just something quick I could use to post whatever came up.
I decided to use Bootstrap to get a quick site up and then I can slowly start to change the styling whenever I find some time.
Recent Work
Right before the footer you’ll notice a recent work section. Instead of focusing on the portfolio version of the site, I’ve decided to focus more on code projects/snippets I’m working on. To be honest, most of the projects I work on are contracted out from another company so I couldn’t show it anyways. It makes it look like I’m never working on anything new.