Hello my name is Steve Lam and this is my portfolio. I’m a freelance web designer based in Toronto, ON Canada. I love cats, playing music, valid css/xhtml and generally all things music and design related. My aim is to work with indie artists, musicians and small businesses in achieving frenetic designs while adhering to today’s web standards.

For those who are curious, as an open-source advocate my favourite content management system (cms) is Textpattern!

That’s it. Feel free to contact me for a quote, creative brief, whatever.

links

links

• dominika.ca - another local designer
• michael cumming designer - Work of another local designer

my music

• black actors - poppy indie rock
• van johnson - my old, defunct hardcore band

inspiration

• colour lovers - color schemes galore
• deforgeo - incomparable illustrations by deforgeo
• welovetxp - collection of some of the best looking textpattern-powered sites out there

resources

• xPattern - community driven Textpattern
• txpnow - textpattern news/dev/blog/plugin feeds all on one page

textpattern

plugins

If you get any use out of my plugins at all feel free to donate :)

• txp-theme-symphony port.zip [4KB]
symphony cms theme ported to TXP. more info/screenshot

• lam_browse_by.txt [6KB]
browse your articles/images/files in admin backend by dropdowns of categories/sections applicable to that area. more info

• lam_accordion_section.txt [2KB]
v.02 - updated for TXP 4.08. adds your typical 'web 2.0' accordion effect to your presentation -> sections area so you don't have a long column of sections needlessly spewing down the page. more info

• lam_article_info.txt [3KB]
basically like zem_article_info, except this plugin provides *live* article (and excerpt) word count update as you type, permalink to article, and displays the current article id. more info

• lam_addthis.txt [7KB]
v0.4 - Social Bookmarking Widget (addthis.com) more info

• lam_image_uploader.txt [29KB]
v0.6c - Based on stm_image_uploader but with a few improvements. This plugin allows you to upload images via the Write tab. more info

• lam_category_popup.txt [7KB]
v0.5 - Generates a popup selector using 'optgroups' to divide parent categories and their children. See example here. more info

• lam_dynamic_image.zip [8KB]
v0.1 - Allows article images (and regular images) to be displayed/resized on-the-fly . Thanks to Gert Tentler for allowing me to include and modify his Thumbs-up script. more info

• lam_show_recent_articles.txt [2KB]
v0.1 - Automatically expands the Recent Articles menu in the Content -> Write tab more info

• txp_article.php [27KB]
hacked txp_article.php (txp 4.0.5) to display write tab in this order -> [title] [excerpt] [body] more info