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Today’s guest at shakin.ru - Lester ‘GaMerZ’ Chan, author of many popular Wordpress plugins. Every Wordpress blogger knows his plugins: WP-PageNavi, WP-Polls, WP-Ban, WP-CommentNavi, WP-DBManager and many others. You can visit full list of Wordpress plugins created by Lester.

I really appreciate that Lester took time to answer my questions.

Can we have a little background information - where do you live? How old are you? What is your education?

I am currently 25 years old living in a small country called Singapore. I am currently perusing my degree in Computing (Information Systems) and will be graduating at the end of this year.

What gave you the idea to create your first Wordpress plugin? What plugin was it? What gave you the idea for this plugin?

My first plugin was WP-Polls, I was always fascinated how polls works (as in the coding part) and hence I decided to try it out myself. It started out as a “hack” for b2 and I eventually ported it to WordPress when it came out. I used to play counter-strike a lot last time and this site CS Nation, csnation.net is the one give me the idea for the polls as that site used to have lots of polls last time.

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Today’s guest at shakin.ru - Randa Clay, famous designer from Dallas, TX, author of randaclay.com. I really like Randa’s portfolio. I appreciate that Randa took time to answer my questions.

Can you tell our readers a little about yourself, what you do and where you’re from?

I am a freelance designer specializing in development of sites for WordPress. I live in the Dallas, Texas area with my husband and two boys. Aside from my main site, randaclay.com, I also have two other sites: freestuff4kids.net and mysocialbuttons.com, as well as a personal blog.

A typical day in the life of Randa Clay, how is it like?

I work from home while taking care of my two little boys who are 3 yrs old and 8 months old, so a typical day involves lots of back and forth between the computer and changing diapers and playing with the little ones. It can be challenging because I rarely get to finish a task in one sitting! On any given day I may be doing design in Photoshop, coding a WordPress theme, networking and commenting on other blogs, using Twitter, etc. I am a master at typing one-handed while holding a little guy on my lap.

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Concept phones are good examples of design inspiration. I found some information of creative cell phones which have attractive and beautiful design and i’d like to share it with you. I plan to publish such design inspiration articles on a regular basis in addition to my traditional Design Showcases.

Nokia Morph - probably one of the coolest concept phones. Looks awesome.

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