Author Archives: Nick

Sandbox for WordPress

In the glorious past (’09) there was an awesome barebones theme for WordPress called Sandbox. I discovered and instantly fell in love. I’ve used it actually for all of my projects from then on, but as WordPress updated it became dated, I have to “update it” now to include basic support for menus and other [...]


World of Warcraft Classic

It all started back in Vanilla, I think even the beta briefly. Truth be told I wasn’t as into WoW then, to me the game seemed far to grindy (more so then I was interested in). Many folks actually forget that one of the ideas behind WoW was to be a sort of “casual gamer’s [...]


Why Internet Explorer?

Why must you be so cruel to me? I’ve never done anything to you! In fact I refused to switch from using you for years until I finally moved to Firefox.  I even defended you against those who didn’t understand how awesome you were. So… why do you hate me? Why must you taunt me? [...]


The Shoutbox is a Lie

I’ve recently had some trouble with Blizzforums, or rather the entire server. It seems there are still some issues that need to be worked out, but in the mean time those who visit BF were either stuck with a download prompt, or now thanks to me a simple HTML page that let’s them know it’s [...]


Headers, Menus, and Search Boxes

After spending some time working on a new header/menu area for the site, I implemented a couple of things I’ve done in the past, most notably having a transparent PNG serving as an overlay. Over on Blizzforums the header images are basic, the only added feature are scanlines, however there is a nifty logo that’s [...]