Freshly launched on to the internet is our latest project: HillsideSpot.com. The design was dreamed up and illustrated by Adam Mann. You can check out his stuff here: SimplyAdamMann.com. Hillside Spot is a local market in Phoenix, Arizona that thrives on bringing the community the freshest ingredients possible.

Visit the website: http://hillsidespot.com

I got a tip a few days ago that a coming soon page I did for Five Second Projects was featured on another blog! Thank to WebDesignerDepot and YouTheDesigner for featuring it and spreading the love. You can check out the article here and here and view the coming soon page here! Thanks to Nikko for the heads up!

WebDesignerDepot.com & YouTheDesigner.com & FiveSecondProjects.com

A few months ago Nicolas Girard contacted me to build a totally custom portfolio site for his awesome motion and design work. He wanted to unveil the new website at the same time as his 2010 demo reel. You can check out the finished live site here:

http://goodmorningstranger.com & http://nicolasgirard.ca

ReelRoulette: An easy way to find motion designers has just been launched. Nick Campbell & Trevor Turk came up with the idea of the site on their flight down to SWSX. Two weeks later after idea swapping and a few long conference calls, we narrowed down some simple features, decided on a design, coded it and launched it. You can read more about the journey here on Trevors blog.

So far the site has been featured on numerous sites such as Motionographer, Fuel Your Motionography, Gapers Block, Denver Regotist and has over 1,000+ sign-ups. Check out the finished site here: ReelRoulette.net

A month ago Nick Campbell asked me to design and code a single selling page for his product called Photoshop For Photographers.  This teaches his entire photography workflow from coming out of the camera to saving for web. The design off the selling page is a carbon copy of a page I designed for Nick’s HDRI Light Kit Pro.

View the final product here: Photoshop For Photographers

About a month ago Nick Campbell asked me to design/code a single selling page for his new product called the HDRI Light Kit Pro. In a nut shell, his new product turned Cinema 4D into a professional lighting studio. We worked and tweaked the design for over 2 weeks trying to keep it as simple and eye catching as we could. Once he approved the design it was a mad dash to code the page before launch day.

View the final product here: HDRI Light Kit Pro

We launched a new website about 2 months ago for an app called Cross Process. It’s the newest iPhone app from Nick Campbell who also created shakeitphoto. Cross Process adds color and character to your photos by emulating the look of Cross Processing film. It turns your images into beautiful, one of a kind images with unique colors and contrast.

Check out the finished website: CrossProcessApp.com

With Wordpress being a very popular free and open source software, it can be very easy for hackers to find vulnerabilities and exploit them on whoever they want. In this post I’m going to explain measures you can take to make sure your site doesn’t fall victim to an attack.

1. Run The Most Recent Version.

With each release comes new bugs and new vulnerabilities making it very important that you keep your WordPress up to date, as well as plugins that you have installed. Most newer versions even let you upgrade right within your WordPress Admin Panel.

2. Search For Vulnerabilities.

With the WP Security Scan plugin you can scan your WordPress installation for security vulnerabilities and it suggests corrective actions. It covers passwords, file permissions, database security, version hiding, WordPress admin protection/security and removes WP Generator META tag from core code.

3. Protect Your Login & Password.

Most people that want to hack a WordPress blog usually start first with trying to guess your password. Login LockDown records the IP address and timestamp of every failed login attempt. If more than a certain number of attempts are detected within a short period of time from the same IP range, then the login function is disabled for all requests from that range.

4. Secure Your Wordpress.

Secure WordPress helps to secure your WordPress installation by removing error information on login pages, adds index.html to the plugin directory, removes the WP-version, except in the admin area.

If you have other plugins or ways you secure your WordPress installations please put them in the comments!

It’s that time again! The holidays are here and snow is everywhere. (At least where I live.) Here i’m going to show you how with one line of code and one JavaScript file, you can have a light snow storm on your website.

Step One

Download the snowstorm.js file. Then upload the javascript file into the root folder of your website or your designated /js/ folder.

Step Two

Place this code in the <head> tags or the footer of your website:

or

Customizing

Inside the snowstorm.js file will be several options you can configure such as snow speed, snow color, snow size, how it interacts with mouse movements and so on. If you have questions, post it in the comments!

The Demo

View the demo here!

Code by Scott Schiller – http://schillmania.com

I had a huge surprise today when I was told a “Coming Soon” design I built for Greyscale Gorilla’s FiveSecondProjects.com was featured on SmashingMagazine.com! You can check out the article here and view the coming soon page here!