This one’s a little late, but about a week ago I released another site for RYDE, Houston’s Premier Indoor Cycling. The site has been one of the most simplest Websites I’ve built at Excion. It featured a simple sterile-like design, two-tone colors and custom fonts. Built with the minimization of color in mind, you won’t see a lot when you visit the site, but that’s the aim.

The WordPress theme was built from scratch as the client voice that he wanted to code to be as lean as possible. So, in order to keep any bloat out of the way, we didn’t go with a theme platform and the whole theme runs off just index.php, functions.php, and style.css.

The site also featured a responsive design with a slide in menu to make it look as app like as possible.

The whole site integrates with the Zingfit service and the Zingfit sites were all integrated with our theme and the look between the marketing and Zingfit sites are seamless. Their platform was built on Bootstrap and I was able get the two to work harmoniously.

You can actually visit the site at http://letsryde.com

I’m super pumped to release the latest version of my site (which is always changing!).

I’ve included a few screenshots, because I’m sure things will change. The theme is a child theme based on my favorite theme Publish by Konstantin Kovshenin.

It features a Twitter-like mast head I’ve always admired and my favorite WordPress wallpaper which I’ve been using in most of my profiles. The main menu has been given a little more focus with a border, categories in the sidebar are easier to follow with a border too, the edges of everything have been rounded some, and it’s a bit wider.

I’ve also decided to start a new repo for my site using Mark Jaquith’s WordPress Skeleton which should always be on Github now. I’ve marked this version as 31.0 Trevor Hall.

I’ve also decided to let versions [of my site, not this theme] follow my age, so I’m 31, so starting in October this year I’ll move to 32.0. Names will also follow my favorite music at the time, so that will act as a good log of my tastes in music as things progress so that should be fun.

Trevor Hall

Trevor Hall just started popping up in my Spotify and I was totally hooked. You’re really surprised to hear him sing once you see him, it’s almost like his voice shouldn’t be coming from a dreaded skinny guy. His music is relaxing, inspiring, and very alternative. Soon after listening to his music on repeat, I started to look into him more.

His recent music is inspired by some of his recent travels to India, and for the past few years I’ve been really connecting with Buddhism and eastern religions and so I gravitated to his lyrics and story. I consider myself a multi-religious person and Trevor seems to be as well, very open, very grey, very accepting.

His more tame stuff is the best, I think, but he has a wide range of music. Lime tree is one of my other favorite songs. He also has this funny duet with his sister you can check out too, he’s a pretty good freestyler.

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Ever since (thanks to good ‘ol Spotify) I learned about artists like Nahko I’ve been on this ongoing musical adventure. Hard to explain the genre, more like progressive folk music. Bitterroot is one of those bands, and you should check them out!

Some other bands to check out: Rising Appalachia and Leah Song (another) and James Bay

If you’re like me you work with those (dot) folders and files quite often, but don’t really enjoy the clutter. Plus, you’re probably going to mess with them in Terminal most of the time.

We can use Automator (an app build into your Mac) to create a new Service and add Run Shell Script with the following code (make sure and save it) that will add a Menu item to the application’s menu (right next to the Apple logo). Just navigate to Services sub-menu.

https://gist.github.com/aubreypwd/3997ab447f65db49a029

You can also add a quick Keyboard Shortcut to it by going to your Keyboard Preferences > Shortcuts.