Come on down to Cut&Paste tomorrow night!

Man, what a week this has been! I moved to a new home in Clapham on Wednesday, I turned 24 yesterday and spent the evening illustrating in Soho for Collage Club, and today I’m busy unpacking, catching up on work, and trying to find time to start practicing for tomorrow night’s Cut&Paste design competition… Hopefully [...]

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Illustration Bliss at the Cut&Paste Tryout

Back on February 28th, I took part in the tryouts for the London Cut&Paste design competition in an attempt to get into the main event next month. It all went well, despite having to work on a Mac (something I’m just not used to); I met some cool people, and drank plenty of free Grolsch [...]

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Quick WordPress Tip: How to execute AND display PHP in posts and pages

Say you’ve got some PHP code that you need to run from within one of your Pages. For example, in my Portfolio page, I use the FlickrRSS plugin to pull in photos from my Flickr feed. While the easiest way to implement that would be to place the required PHP snippet in a template file, [...]

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Quick WordPress Tip: Style Posts According to Date

Ever wanted to give a post element a different look and feel (or even include/exclude content) based on a post’s publication date? I got asked about this earlier today, and I figured it would be a handy tip to share.
I don’t claim to be a PHP coder, so while it does work, it could be [...]

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How about a Nice Hot Cuppa?

Recently, I’ve been thinking that a change in branding would do my own freelance business some good — that having a ’studio’ name, rather than using my own, would help in gaining new custom. To that end, I’m happy to announce that Nice Hot Cuppa is now online.

OK, it’s just a holding page for the [...]

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Rob Barrett Introduction