JasonBahl

PluginChief Arrives.

jasonbahl — Tue, 02 Oct 2012 21:25:49 +0000

After months and months of slaving away at writing code, and testing and troubleshooting and researching, MobileChief – Mobile Site Creator was launched into the WordPress repository, thus giving birth to PluginChief.com.

PluginChief.com is a premium WordPress plugin shop, focused on delivering spectacular WordPress plugins and excellent support.

Initially launching with the MobileChief plugin and some add-ons for MobileChief, the initial goal is to simply get up and running and start generating buzz in the WordPress community.

The longer-term goal is to produce lots of high quality, niche plugins that make WordPress valuable in unique ways, and to make these plugins available to members for an affordable price.

Some plugins we have on our radar include:

TasksChief: A WordPress Task Manager
UpdateChief: A way for Premium WordPress plugins and Themes to be self-hosted and still push updates seamlessly through the WordPress updater
FanpageChief: A Facebook fanpage creator for WordPress
QR Chief: A way for people to easily create and customize QR Codes from their WordPress dashboard.

It’s officially the beginning of what we hope will be a long, successful journey!

Ads, Ads, Go Away. . .

jasonbahl — Tue, 21 Jun 2011 18:43:51 +0000

I’m sure almost nobody will get to the point where they land on this blog to figure out how to disable YouTube ads on their YouTube videos, but in case your googling around leads you here, I’ll explain how it’s done:

When logged in to YouTube, at the top right click your username and a dropdown menu will appear.
Click “Settings”
Click “Manage Account”
Then under “Content Displayed With My Videos” click “Do Not Allow Advertisements”

It’s such a simple thing, but it took me forever to figure out!

Curvy Corners = Life Saver

jasonbahl — Tue, 07 Jun 2011 20:23:18 +0000

I’m working on a project for a client and they have a lot of rounded corners that really are essential to their branding. Implementing rounded corners, to a small degree, can be done easily with an image file, or can gracefully degrade to a squared corner in projects where the rounded corners aren’t essential. But for this client, there are a lot of rounded corners, and they are a MUST.

Luckily, Cameron Cooke and Mike Jolley put some hard work into creating a great jQuery solution: Curvey Corners.

With just a line of jQuery code, my rounded corners became round!

The WordPress AnythingSlider

jasonbahl — Thu, 26 May 2011 13:09:34 +0000

In April 2011 I developed the WordPress Anything Slider plugin and released it for sale on CodeCanyon.net. So far it has been pretty successful, reaching more than 50 sales in about a month’s time. I’ve had plenty of user feedback and helped troubleshoot quite a bit, leading me to make improvements and adjustments. Overall I’ve found that people are pretty satisfied with the plugin.

If you need a slider/banner rotator for your WordPress website, check out my plugin here.

New Website

jasonbahl — Thu, 26 May 2011 13:04:22 +0000

As a web designer I never wanted to use someone else’s design for my website. I always wanted my website to show off my skill and taste in design, etc. But, I’ve been way too busy to spend any time on my own site, so I let Orman Clark do the dirty work. This site is based on the “Gridlock” WordPress theme by Orman Clark, who is a design genius. The second I saw this theme I knew it would be a great way for us to establish a new J2 Multimedia site very quickly, while still focusing on our piles of client work.

Thank you Orman Clark for providing such an excellent theme!

Petey Photography Rocks!

jasonbahl — Thu, 26 May 2011 03:05:01 +0000

Don’t have much to say other than Peter Place is an awesome photographer. Every time I get an email from Flickr that a contact has uploaded new photos, I’m always hoping that it’s from him. His work is really inspiring and the way he uses light is awesome.

I’m a big fan of his work, so I contacted him and lucky for me, he was kind enough to let me use his photos in my WordPress AnythingSlider plugin demonstration.

Check out his work.

Stephen & Stephanie Engagement

jasonbahl — Fri, 11 Mar 2011 08:00:34 +0000

Stephen is my cousin-in-law (if that’s even an official term) and when he asked me to photograph his engagement portraits I was really excited. They are such a great couple and shooting their portraits was really fun. We met at the Colorado Railroad Museum in Golden. I have only been there once before so it was great to be back there and check out all the history and neat scenery. We had a great time coming up with fun poses and I think we ended the day with some great photos.

Congratulations on the engagement and I can’t wait to shoot the wedding!

View the full gallery here.

Erin & Zach Engagement

jasonbahl — Tue, 11 Jan 2011 14:18:32 +0000

Erin is my cousin-in-law, and when I was asked to shoot her engagement portraits, I was thrilled! The only bad part about it is that they are Steelers fans, so I had to put up with that for a whole afternoon just weeks before the Super Bowl. (Just joking. . .I like the Steelers).

Anyway, we had a great time taking photos. We walked around downtown and made some great images. We stopped at Confluence park, the Union Station Light Rail, an alley, a big yellow wall and the Denver Center for Performing Arts Complex. They were super fun to hang out with all afternoon and we ended the day with some terrific portraits.

Congratulations on the engagement and I can’t wait to shoot the wedding!

View the full gallery here.