Who doesn’t love fridge magnets?

Its getting colder here in the south. Winter is starting to wink before she starts ticking nervously. While I didn’t really intend the fridge to symbolize that, I’m now going to claim it on reflection.

You can grab your resolution from the post on the Forge site.

Nice and late, I broke the wallpaper theme for the year, and it feels good.

Something more vector inspired this month. Sorry if you don’t like yellow. I say try all colours on for size once in a while – most of them offer something.

Here is an overview of what it looks like with the calendar:

Pity down-sampling to fit the post pixelates it so badly, but hopefully you get the idea. Also, I spent a little more time on the iPhone version this month, so check that out if you have one.

Once again you can grab your preferred resolution from The Forge site.

Sorry if you’re old school enough to like your content fresh and helpful, but this post is just my self indulgent way of documenting stuff.

The team I work with is quite small (but awesome!), and project work flow generally goes faster if the design and front-end development isn’t both done by me. Since at the moment I’m the only one doing front-end, unfortunately I don’t really get to design websites as often as I would ideally like. Although, changes are a-brewing, which will free me to do more design work, which I’m chomping at the bit to do.

I know you care deeply…

So even though Cape Accommodation‘s redesign went live a long time ago, and looking at it now there are already quite a few things I’d change – I’m putting it up here because I designed it. I warned you it was self indulgent :)

The original site looked like this:

Almost 10 years old, the site acted as mainly a feeder directory for a more substantial site. With no database (yes, that meant manual updating of HTML), and an almost unusable navigation that listed endless properties by only one criteria at a time, it was my job to come up with something that was way more current, usable, and added lots of functionality.

Using WordPress and with a design brief that I had to use the colours orange and blue (honestly, not my favourite colour combination) I tried to keep it as clean as possible while still giving it some vibrancy.

The most important functionality to add was for decent ways to search for accommodation on the site. It needed to be able to drill down from multiple search criteria. Since WordPress isn’t brilliant at this, I was grateful for the SQL and PHP skillz of colleague Christopher Mills to get this vibing. Apart from that I introduced a visual way of searching where possible with JQuery thumbnails for regions & activities, advertisement slots, and a JQuery featured property section in the sidebar, amongst a bunch of other cool stuff.

So to you, the legend who read till the end of this post, I salute you. You poor bastard.

Seems like the design section on this site is being owned by things that are released on The Forge.

Sorry, cant help that – just so busy. But we are doing some quite cool things and releasing some nice freebies.

Greyzed is a fully widgetized grungy WordPress theme. Completely free with a strong style and lots of features. We released it today to coincide with our tenth birthday. Visit the theme page to get all the features, view a demo and download.

Took this shot of Rocky, resident Burmese cuteness at The Forge. I thought he deserved a wallpaper.

If you want to download it just head over to The Forge. There should be a size that fits your screen resolution.

Another month is here. The kickass February (just because it’s my birthday month).

If you like this one then head on over to The Forge and download it. There should be one that fits your resolution. Ive also included an iPhone version.

It was pretty rad to be able to go out in the sunshine this morning and take photographs of these chilies while I should’ve been “working”.

Although this one is a little late, but you can’t blame us for taking a holiday at the end of the year!.

At any rate, I decided to also release this first one here on Mulletized, with further wallpapers and other exciting freebies being planned for release on The Forge Web Creations website during the course of the year.

Download:
iPhone | 1280 x 800 | 1440 x 900 | 1680 x 1050 | 1920 x 1200

At the end of last year, just before we went on a well deserved break over the festive season we decided to release a free gift to everyone – a free premium WordPress theme called Organic.

We haven’t really advertised the theme, and released it without much fanfare, but it deserves mentioning since its a neat, customizable design that offers the functionality you would usually only find in paid-for premium themes. Free from us (makes me feel all warm and fuzzy).

So check out our free premium WordPress theme!

Organic Features:

• Choose from 31 logos or use your own

• Select a colour scheme – Blue, Green or Brown

• Add a link to your Dashboard in the footer for easy access

• Add social share icons below your posts to increase your traffic

• Add Latest Posts, Popular Posts and Recent Comments to your sidebar

• Set up and manage your main navigation

• Add your social profiles (Facebook, Twitter, Youtube, etc)

• Add your Feedburner account

• Track your traffic with Google Analytics

Download:
(1280×800) (1440×900) (1680×1050) (1920×1200)

This weekend I had a bit of free time, so in between trying to promote West Ham to the top flight of Master League in my Pro Evolution 2010 game – I put together this simple typographic wallpaper. If you dig it let me know.

Stock image credit.

A quick post to reflect how stoked I am at the response of this site.

Thank you to everyone who contacted me publicly or privately. Also a big thanks to the gallery and design inspiration sites that have featured Mulletized. A personal highlight – being featured on BestWebGallery, and Smashing Magazine’s 50 beautiful and Creative Blog Designs.