I’m back from my bit of a posting hiatus! Now I’m a graduate of Olin College, and as such, I have become alwaysBETA’s first correspondent from the real world. So as my first act as a real human being, I shall firmly entrench myself right back in the fake world of MySpace.
Now, most social […]

Well, it’s been a while since we’ve launched the site (almost exactly three months, to be exact,) but we’ve still got a little bit of that old magic left. Phil Renaud, everyone’s favorite philosophy major and webhead, has featured us in his new post, “The Next 35 Sexiest Designed Websites You’ve Forgotten.”

I can’t put […]

The brave web designer hovers over his creation. It is bold. Lines move, drawing the eye through the layout. Silky text and bright splashes of color defy monotony. Excitement, beauty, structure: it is visual poetry which surrounds information. The designer’s heart beats strong within his breast. He feels ready, but his quest has not […]

Welcome back to my series of posts on creating the alwaysBETA layout in Wordpress. In today’s post, we’ll learn about the creation of the sidebar “Blog Navigation” box.
The Problem
One of the issues that we struggled with for a while was how to fit all of the various modes of blog navigation into the sidebar. […]

When we first had the idea of building a group blog, I of course immediately recognized it as a chance to create yet another web layout. If you know me, you’d know that I’m just a little bit addicted to web design. I derive joy from brainstorming concepts, tweaking layout, choosing colors, adjusting type, […]