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New Theme...etc

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I'm alive! I've been very busy with my career. I'm still doing web design and development. I recently did a revamp of my website in May of this year. Check it out at Blondish.net

I've been catching up on notes and have noticed some requests to do commissions for WordPress web design. My rate starts at $350 for simple blog sites, and sometimes as low as $500 for businesses or other types of websites that need different functionalities.

On the conference front, I haven't done any for 2013, but have some planned for 2014. I'm excited to get back into presenting again as I've got a lot of awesome stuff to share. Most of my presentations that aren't on WordPress.tv, I have podcasted and published on my website.
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New Username

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A lot of people who have watched me on DA over the last 7 years know my username as pixvex, but it really was not consistent with my other social networking profiles. I was really happy to see that DeviantART allows premium users to change their usernames and finally took the opportunity to change mine to be consistent with my other social network usernames... which are blondishnet.
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I am really happy to have been speaking this year at some WordCamps.

So far I have spoken at WordCamp Atlanta 2012 (Topic: Avoiding Bloggers Block) and WordCamp Kansas City 2012 (Topic: Typography for WordPress)

I am scheduled in July to speak at WordCamp Columbus 2012. I will be teaching a double sessions (1 and a half hours) on PSD to WordPress. This is the second year I will be speaking at Columbus so I am excited to return.

Aside from WordCamps, I will be speaking in St. Louis at a blogging conference called Show Me The Blog 2012. My topic will be Getting Down and Dirty with WordPress SEO. This will be a second year that I will be speaking at the conference and I am honored to return.

I will announce any new conferences that I will come up. You can catch all my presentation slides on Slideshare under my username blondishnet. I have also conveniently podcasted most of my past presentations and posted them in the Podcast category at Blondish.net.

I AM looking for advertising sponsors to help fund my trips to these WordCamps, so if you are needing exposure on a PR4 site that has an Alexa rank of under 65K (pretty awesome traffic), please contact me either here at DeviantART or through my contact form on my site.
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So, I decided I would finish 2011 speaking at 6 WordCamps (WordPress conferences) and 1 blogging conference. I uploaded my presentations to Slideshare ( username blondishnet ). I expect to see some of my presentations that were recorded on video to be published on WordPress.TV, but they have a really long queue of videos to catch up on.

I was really happy that I was able to meet new people and also some of my regular readers face-to-face. It was hard to stay humble, but I was not there for ego-stroking. I was there to help and made that my goal the entire time.

My topics I covered at each WordCamp this year:


WordCamp Columbus 2011 - Introduction to WordPress Plugin Development
WordCamp Chicago 2011- Setting Up Your WordPress Site Like A Pro
WordCamp St. Louis 2011- Introduction to WordPress Theme Development
WordCamp Louisville 2011- Introduction to WordPress Theme Development: Tweaking Your Theme
WordCamp Philadelphia 2011- WordPress Design and Development with the Client in Mind
WordCamp Detroit 2011- WordPress Tools and Tips for Any Niche

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I do have a few proposals and invitations for some 2012 WordCamps and a couple social media and blogging conferences. I look forward to tackling those and hoping that my topics cover what people are wanting to know. I remember when I began... there were not that many people to look up to and the catty gals on MySpace who only wanted attention and comments were a real turn off despite their sexy pictures.

Anyhow, I have been working really hard this year and tried to keep up to date with my DA account. It has not been easy as my brand has grown a lot this year and right now I am going through a huge marketing campaign and trying to get use to bigger traffic numbers. I do not want to ignore my visitors, but I definitely will be covering more graphic and HTML tutorials soon. I still have well over 1000 free graphics on my site, and soon that will include all the WordPress themes I have been working on.

Thank you to everyone who has supported me, my work, and those who have helped donate to keep InuYasha-Fanfiction.com alive. I am still looking for a few good mods that are not into starting trouble and not going for a power trip. I've dealt enough with that and I say- leave that for All My Children....lol.
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(crosspost from my LiveJournal)

This has been a huge problem in fandom and in life in general. I see it with other people... perfectly good people. I may not agree with someone, but it does not give me a right to hate them over their opinion. - Or harass? - Or completely write them off to the point civil conversation is not even considered.

There are so many people in this world, and technology pulls many of us together. Are we taking for granted of the opportunity to connect with others? Are we really using the Internet as each of us had originally done?

Probably not.

Next time you think of someone that you dislike or even hate... why do you really hate them?

- Was it over opinion
- Was it because of their sexual preferences
- Was it over actions that had no direct physical or mental effect to you?

If it is not, than you have no excuse to be such a way. In fact, if you believe you were raised to be respectful and have great discipline, you are knocking those doors that your own parents tried to instill upon you in your younger days. I had a long talk with several people both online and in person about this subject and it really prompted me to write this. Why? - because it is a huge peeve of mine. I was not raised that way and even at my age, if so, I could face a good backhand from my folks (you are never too old to be scolded.)

Do you really have a valid reason to? Did that person really wrong you badly?

If you are the one being castigated for pathetic reasons, do yourself a favor and speak out. You deserve to know why.

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Stop making excuses. Stop hating. Be up front and tell the truth.


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No need to answer or comment. This is just food for thought.
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