Profile
I am an veteran of the Silicon Valley boom days, relocated to Denver, CO in January 2004. Since I moved to Denver, I’ve been self-employed as an independent developer, working on my projects and various contract gigs.
I’ve been doing web development since 1996. I spent several years designing and building web sites before interest in user interface design brought me into the software industry.
From 1998 through 2003 I worked for several enterprise software companies designing the user interface for web-based applications.
Besides my computer related interests, I keep busy with a healthy collection of sports and activities including golf, volleyball, softball, guitar and photography.
Elsewhere on the Web
- alexking.info – my tumblelog.
- crowdfavorite.com – my business site.
- alexandheather.com – personal web site, password required.
- caitlinking.com – my daughter’s web site.
Like most web professionals, I’ve got a number of web sites and profiles on a number of web services. You can find a sometimes-updated list of these accounts on my claimID page.
Hire Me
I’m available for contract work, contact me if you have something you’d like me to work on. Crowd Favorite is my web development business. We’ve got a great development team on board now and love to take on fun projects.
About This Site
alexking.org officially launched on November 1, 2002. It used a home grown templating system alongside a b2 powered blog. The blog was upgraded to WordPress, a golf blog and PunBB powered forums/ were added, and content grew and grew in the blog.
It was probably in early 2004 when I was starting to feel growing pains with my templating system. When I built a new King Design web site in 2005 I used WordPress as the CMS platform. I’ve used WordPress to drive pretty much every site I’ve built since then.
Right now you are looking at alexking.org v21. alexking.org v2 is completely WordPress driven site (except for the forums – still PunBB). It’s fairly heavily customized to combine two blogs as well as my old template system content into a single site. I’ve released a number of my customizations as plugins.
I get a number of questions about the Font Size widget in the sidebar. It was built using this tutorial from A List Apart.
Tools used in the creation of the site were primarily BBEdit and Photoshop on a PowerMac Quad and a MacBook.
- If you’re curious about what version 1 looked like, the WayBack Machine can hook you up. [back]
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Last modified: 2009-04-24 00:39:21 GMT
claimID | alexking.org adds this Pingback:
[...] My claimID profile is here – I haven’t verified all of the sites/accounts I’ve added yet, and I’ve probably forgotten a half dozen sites/accounts I should add, but it’s kind of cool to have a list of everything in one place. I think I’ll add a link to this on my About page. [...]
November 27th, 2006 at 5:26 pm
Font Size Switcher | alexking.org adds this Pingback:
[...] I also added this info to my About page, on the off chance someone actually thinks to look there. [...]
December 23rd, 2006 at 12:29 am
Karthick adds this Comment:
I really like the design you follow. It’s a pleasant site to navigate, except the google ads are too big lol. Nevertheless, great work and any tips for beginners?
June 1st, 2007 at 9:46 am
Blog upgrades | indigoprime adds this Pingback:
[...] Twitter Tools – to enable tweets on my sidebar, courtesy of Denver-based dev Alex King [...]
April 5th, 2008 at 6:07 pm
Switching… » My new backup solution using Amazon S3 adds this Pingback:
[...] I found out earlier this week about the solution Alex King (of wordpress fame) came up with for his backups. The Amazon Simple Storage Service or Amazon S3 [...]
May 17th, 2008 at 1:33 am
Yoyon Sugiono adds this Comment:
Its nice blog.
August 19th, 2008 at 11:37 pm
Plugin para integrar o Wordpress com o Twitter | Nihil.com.br adds this Pingback:
[...] Estava procurando um plugin para integrar o blog com o twitter, após testar e eliminar alguns, resolvi instalar definitivamente aqui no site o plugin chamado Twitter Tools, feito pelo Alex King. [...]
January 4th, 2009 at 7:29 pm
Webcatchup.com » Webcatchup is now mobile friendly adds this Pingback:
[...] thanks to Alex King I was able to install one of his plugins which he has created for WordPress to enable mobile users [...]
January 6th, 2009 at 8:38 pm
nickganga’s inaugural online experience | a day in the life adds this Pingback:
[...] Alex King’s WordPress plugin TwitterTools powered the WP integration for this historic event. Because Loopt delivers status updated to Twitter, this plugin listens to Twitter and was set to create an entry for each Tweet. Written by nickganga in: democrats, elections 08, government, inauguration, obama, technology | Tags: blackberry, facebook, loopt, rss, twitter, twitterberry, wordpress [...]
January 25th, 2009 at 10:23 am
Un descanso con “Tira y Afloja” en ebierzo.com Cultura, internet desde el Bierzo adds this Pingback:
[...] aprovecharemos para actualizar el diseño que estará basado en el Framework desarrollado por Alex King al que han bautizado como Carrington. Ya se acerca el 5º aniversario del dominio ebierzo.com [...]
February 8th, 2009 at 2:56 pm
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[...] WordPress developer Alex King, probably best known as the creator of many useful and popular WordPress plugins, this looks like a [...]
April 15th, 2009 at 7:48 am
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[...] think that the underlying message of the developers of Wordpress, including Matt Mullenweg and Alex King, is that Wordpress is for everyone. Everyone is welome. There are many passionate people out [...]
June 30th, 2009 at 11:04 pm
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[...] Author: Alex King [...]
December 29th, 2009 at 4:44 pm
Natalie Brown adds this Comment:
Very strange how much we have in common..I look forward to getting in touch with you!
January 21st, 2010 at 6:20 pm
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[...] think that the underlying message of the developers of Wordpress, including Matt Mullenweg and Alex King, is that Wordpress is for everyone. Everyone is welome. There are many passionate people out [...]
March 2nd, 2010 at 7:32 am