When clicking Projects you can read about a bunch of my projects including my latest, Ken’s Today Screen. I hope to add all of my previous projects eventually. I’d like to add a new one each week until I’ve got all of the up.

As for Ken’s Today Screen, you can now download it and use it for FREE!!  Go take a look and let me what you think.

Introducing the Nike Plus Mini WordPress Plugin.

After creating a Nike Plus Mini avatar in the Nike+ website, this plugin will add a widget to your sidebar showing your mini avatar.

There are customizable settings for size and background color.

All it needs is your Nike+ screen name.

Installing:

1.  Download the zip file Nike+ Mini WordPress Plugin.
2.  Unzip it and upload the folder wp-nikeplusmini to your website’s /wp-content/plugins/ folder.
3.  In your WordPress dashboard, click Plugins and activate WP-NikePlusMini.

4.  Now go to Design->Widgets

5.  Add WP-Nike-Plus-Mini to a sidebar

6.  Click Edit

7.  Edit the Options and click Change. Be sure to add your Nike+ Screen Name.

8.  Save the changes and your done!

Disclaimer:

This is my first WordPress plugin and use of php.  If you try this plugin, let me know what you think in the comments.

Prima Theme for Sandbox

I spent last night diving into the design of this site. My mind is not very design oriented. If only I knew what I wanted the site to look like I’d be able to code it up. It takes me a while, but I usually can get a design I’m happy with. Check out some of my website designs: My Nike CSS Test Site My Work’s Site Neeps!

The first thing I did was installed Prima. Prima is a WordPress Theme that uses Sandbox to create a very simple and aesthetically pleasing blog. The plan was to use Prima’s well commented css file as a template to edit. Hopefully by the time I’m done there won’t be any resemblance between KennethBrandon.com and Prima.

My blog view in a wide browser

My Blog view in a thin browser

The second thing was to give Prima a new big header. What’s bigger than Crater Lake? I took this photo of Crater Lake on my last hiking trip across Oregon. Last night I spent most of my time doing some CSS magic so that the header has a somewhat liquid design. (Try resizing the page!) I wanted to reward all visitors who spent some big $ on large screens with a cool picture. The biggest challenge was to get the rounded corners on the header no mater how wide their browser is.

I think my next step will be to work on my plain home page.

Is Sandbox a step back?

WordPress' Default Theme

That may be true, however to do this, Sandbox strips most of WordPress’ formatting.  You go from WordPress’ nice, clean default look, to a horrid, cluttered, completely style-less mess.

I have to start adding some css fast!

This will hopefully become a place for me to share some of my projects with the world…  I have some big ideas for this site, but first I will have to figure out how to use WordPress and set up this blog!