I haven’t talked much about JungleJar.com lately, and there’s been good reason why. No, nothing horrible has happened with the website or its management; However, the management has changed. I’ll be writing a more formal article here within the next few weeks to let everyone know what happened, what to expect and what I’m working on next.

And hey, don’t worry — The new owner of JungleJar.com is already giving away free Wordpress Templates that he purchased from me. If that’s not dedication for a website and its readers, then not much else is either. So, I don’t expect too much to change — especially not when you consider that I’ll be working with the new owner probably for a very long time in the future on gathering exclusive content for the website, more templates, reviews, original articles, interviews with some of your favorite graphic and web designers and more.

But for now, why don’t you just go get this relatively badass Wordpress Template?

“Christopher Hennis has created another great FREE wordpress template for all to enjoy. This one features a sleek design and as a bonus we have also included the psd files for all the images used in the template.”

If you’re interested in using this Wordpress Template, just hop on over to: JungleJar.com, and snatch it up for free!.

Features of this WP Template

• XHTML 1.0 Validated by the WC3
• Template uses a strict doctype by choice
• Cross web browser compatible
• Template takes full advantage of new template tags available in the newest version of Wordpress
• Nicely styled comments system
• Page links are automatically added to the navigation bar in the header to make your life a bit easier.
• Gravatar supported comments.
• Nicely integrated for Twitter users and the template displays your last 5 tweets in the right sidebar
• Associated Photoshop .PSD files included. This generally contains things such as the logo, sidebar navigation, etc

You can also view the live demo of the template in action to give you a true feel for how you might use it.
Ready? Let’s go to that live demo.

or..
View the official post at JungleJar.com

In another recent and fantastic interview that I’m absolutely proud of, I had the chance of talking with Christopher Muniz who happens to be the master mind behind DesignGive.com.

What also was really cool to me especially was the fact that I was the first person to interview Christopher about Design Give and obviously JungleJar being the first website to have an interview with Christopher concerning Design Give.

This wasn’t my first interview with associates of Design Give.com however. You guys may remember Andhika Nugraha, a known and highly skilled graphic designer, who agreed to an interview with JungleJar which can be viewed by clicking this link. Well, Andhika was actually how I became introduced to Design Give in the first place.

After viewing his DeviantArt portfolio and catching a glimpse of his t-shirt design named “God” for DG.com, I followed the tendrils into DesignGive.com and found not only a plethora of fantastic unique tees to purchase for a reasonable price, but also found a company who actually cares about the personality associated with the company and donates a large portion of their profits to a charity of the customer’s choosing.

Read this interview on JungleJar.com.

So, after our interview it got me to thinking a bit about my need for badias (yes, I spelled that correctly) t-shirts, and since now I felt like I had somewhat of a bond with Mr. Muniz, as fragile as it were, I was only thinking about DesignGive.com, and how amazing it was that I still hadn’t ordered Andhika’s t-shirt named “God” yet! He asked me if I would take a picture while wearing it over a year ago, and I still hadn’t bought the damn thing — and I loved the design! So, I rushed on over to the site, and it was.. sold out.

So, after a few moments of pouting, I found this gem to your left, and I’m going to be honest with you — I don’t think I had ever wanted a specific t-shirt so badly. I’m not sure exactly what it was, but the character in the design did resemble me quite a bit, I can be a bit morbid at times, I do have that constantly sarcastic sort of sense of humor, and it sure ain’t 1977 anymore, but I love my Misfits.

This t-shirt can be viewed by clicking here, and the artist behind the portrait was Maciej Rakowski.

And let me say that while Mr. Rakowski has an extremely complicated first name, his portfolio website at k4lab.info rocks, so please don’t hesitate and give Mr. Rakowski a bit of praise.

Anyway, guess what. Yep, that’s right, this t-shirt was too sold out but…

At the last second, I spotted “Oiled”.

Oiled was designed by artist Vanja Vikalo, and you can find his warez over at d-bend.com, and Mr. Vikalo says his inspiration for the design was

“Unfortunately the voice of wildlife is never heard in global oil catastrophes, so this is my illustrated way of voicing it for them.”

And perhaps due to the fact that I was pretty excited to have purchased a new cool t-shirt which is pretty embarassing to have happen at the age of 28, I found another t-shirt on Design Give, and it happened to be another t-shirt designed by the graphic designer Maciej Rakowski. So, while I didn’t get “Engine”, I still got a pretty cool shirt, and it sort of reminds me of a mix between Clockwork Orange and Frank Sinatra.

The name of the t-shirt is Industrial Re-pollution, and can be viewed at this link on DesignGive.

The message behind the design has a bit to do with pollution, if you hadn’t already guessed that, but to be more specific..

“Feeding the corporate mouths of industrial re-pollution, while the environment is paying the ultimate price.”

Well, I guess I’ve rambled on here enough to get you interested in Design Give if you are to ever get interested in Design Give, but it was a really fun article to write. I was able to not only talk with Christopher Muniz about Design Give on a few different key areas, but also talk to the folks who come here to my portfolio about which t-shirts on Design Give I thought were the super coolest, heh.

Thanks again to Christopher, ALL of the graphic designers who have contributed to Design Give, and anyone else out there trying to make a difference in the world — a damn good one.

View this interview on JungleJar.com.

If you’re not already aware, John Solimine is the man behind Spike Press.com, which showcases a bit of his successful work achieved as an illustrator and graphic designer working for clients such as Nike, American Express and The Animation Show.

Some of my other interviews I’ve done in JungleJar.com’s name would be Shayne Tilley who is SitePoint’s Marketing Manager, Mollie Craver of SunSign Graphic Design, Paul Boag of Boag World and more.

Browse all interviews archived at JungleJar.com.

Well, I’ve finally finished up the final design, implemented it and made sure it worked correctly with the PHP and Wordpress specific PHP and this, you could say, is the official release of introportfolio.com.

If you’re not already familiar, I set out to create introportfolio.com as a website that offered quality high-resolution stock photos for download as quickly and easily as possible. There was a definite reason for this as most other stock photo websites ask for you to create a monetary based membership, create a free membership, upload photos before downloading them, or they push the copyrighted content (for whatever reason) much more heavily than the commons-type licensed images. To sum it up nice and neat; I didn’t think there were any good and free stock photography resource websites out there.

Now, there’s introportfolio. Once the content gradually grows, I’m sure it’ll be the “go to” site for free stock photos.

Visit my portfolio to view the new introportfolio design.

I’ve recently been working with a client of mine named Jennifer Mattern who came to me looking for a pre-designed Wordpress Template she could purchase from me, and offer it as free content for members on her website Query Free Freelancer. Well, after she shot down 2 or 3 of my designs, she finally came across my depeche Wordpress Template which I had on auction on Digital-Point, and she placed a BIN (Buy It Now) price on the template within 20 minutes I believe it was.

So, if you’re looking for a really good and free Wordpress Template, I would recommend you head on over to Query Free Freelancer, sign up for free to become a member, and download the depeche template.

A few of the neat features inside of depeche are..

• Cross browser compatible
• XHTML 1.0 valid
• CSS level 2.1 valid
• Uses a strict doctype
• Widget ready sidebar
• Paginated supported comments
• Javascript enhanced searchform

Ultimately, I’d like to have a team. Even if you only design one t-shirt, I’d like to be able to list you on the website as a team designer, and offer you any of the perks that might come along with that.