• Designalope

  • Design and Development

  • Content and Media Production

  • Designalope is the hub for me, Tom Wells, part designer, developer and content producer located in Portland, OR. I love creating beautiful, unique, practical and effective interactive design.


    My interests run from graphic design to application development, from animation to mobile web. I've done graphic and interactive design, storyboarding and wire framing, copy writing, music composition, animation, branding, SEO and concept development for a wide variety of clients, from international agencies to small businesses.


    I hope you'll enjoy the blog and check out the work, and feel free to get in touch to discuss the services I can provide.

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  • Web
  • Academy of Kung Fu
  • Graphic, front end design and custom Wordpress templating, Cushy CMS, JQuery. Video Production with Final Cut Pro and After Effects, Cubase. Social Media Marketing and SEO.
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  • Web
  • Bar Lolo
  • Graphic and front end design using custom Wordpress templating and JQuery.
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  • Mobile
  • Poink
  • HTML5, CSS3, JQuery, Music, Phonegap, XCode
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  • Web
  • Westside AKF and Crossfit
  • Graphic and front end design using custom Wordpress templating and JQuery, JQuery UI, Social Media Marketing and Integration
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  • Web
  • Portland Farmers Market
  • Project management for web raising, Cushy CMS, and front end design.
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  • Animation
  • MTV Bumper
  • After Effects animation for :30 second MTV spot.
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  • Web
  • Neighborhood House
  • Graphic and front end design and development, JQuery and Cushy CMS
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  • Web
  • Virginia Garcia
  • Content production and front end development.
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  • Web
  • Dokomobile
  • Prototype Mobile web application and custom Wordpress site utilizing JQTouch, JQuery, HTML5, CSS3 utilizing Google and YQL feed APIs.

Designablog

Responsive WordPress

Being new to responsive design, I wasn’t sure which way to go in terms of migration efficiency. So, here’s is a timeline of what I found – the journey and psychology of the responsive journeyman.

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No Conflict

The jQuery library that WordPress ships with is set to no-conflict mode. Which means you can’t immediately use the “$” variable. Oooo, that’s annnoying. At first. (more…)

Register and Enqueue

I stand on the shoulders of giants, some of whom are bigger than others. I haven’t invented a machine code, just sought out the knowledge of others, individual or cloud, most of whom sought their knowledge out, most of whom… etc. The next couple of posts are things I found out from some larger or lesser WordPress giants, and some hopefully helpful links. Bon Apetit.

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Embedding Images in WordPress- Short and Simple

You’re cranking away at your WordPress theme and the <img> tags aren’t working. Getting the empty block, or the bitter alt text spit at you? You’ve checked everything, your image is in the right directory, your markup is copacetic, what the what? (more…)

Photoshop Brush vs. Shape- The Eternal Conundrum

Lately I’ve been on a Photoshop brush/custom shape safari. Free, of course.

Whilst navel gazing one day, I wonders to meself, “Hmm. Brush. Shape. How do I decide when to use one or the other? If I’ve got similar versions of a graphic in each format, why do I choose one or the other?”

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