We recently had a design overhaul for Study Driving, formerly a personal site of mine, which Splashpress Media acquired. As with a host of other blogs in the network, Study Driving was redesigned by my fellow contributor here, Ia Lucero.
When we were conceptualizing the design, I was initially thinking of something with lots of red, […]

David Peralty has just posted about the recently-released Cutline version 1.3.
Remember that Archive link in the header of every installation? I have since removed it, making sure to use WordPress’ built-in page listing code, so top level pages will be displayed automatically rather than having to edit the theme.
I have also taken some advice given […]

Here at Free WordPress Themes we’re having some trouble getting the theme demo to work and one of the main reasons is that the themes aren’t named consistently. But the bigger problem when theme designers do that is the inconsistency that can hurt your theme as a brand.
As most of you know, WordPress gets the […]

A couple of days ago, I got my hands on a nifty new Asus Eee MyPC (got some extra funds from my ad earnings). As soon as I got home, I used the Eee to browse sites for tips, hacks and other information about the ultracompact notebook computer, and the OS that came with it–XandrOS […]

In the few months of Free WordPress Themes being online, we’ve received a few complaints from members and non-members alike. The gist: someone has uploaded their themes, but without proper attribution. Worse, these uploaded themes had sponsor links embedded somewhere (usually the footer). This means some people are making money off other people’s efforts, sometimes […]

Sorry for the lull in posting here, folks. I’ve had a family emergency and tragedy so I took some time off of work. Now we’re trying to pick up the pieces of our lives, and of course with this, I’m trying to reroute my energies back into my blogging and design-related writings.
Here’s a great piece […]

One thing about blogs and bloggers is that link exchange is a popular means of networking with people. And another thing I notice is that most bloggers would love anything free–free services, free software, free hosting, etc.
However, most “free” things on the web aren’t exactly free. Most of the time, something is asked for in […]

When I started out problogging, the first ever network I joined was Blog Media, which is now Problogging, Inc. The first blog I wrote for was under the Erati sub-network, of which tech.erati was part of. It has since been re-branded as Gadzooki (more interesting tidbits about this later). One thing that the network did […]

I’ve been blogging for about four years now. Before working mainly with WordPress, I’ve tried Blogger, BlogCMS (a variant of Nucleus), and I’ve dabbled with Movable Type and even Textpattern. But then I tried WordPress and I got hooked. One of the reasons I stick to WordPress is that there are a ton of themes […]

Last month, the big issue being discussed by the WordPress community and the blogosphere at large was that of sponsored themes. The concept of sponsored themes is not entirely new.–it has been used by designers to monetize their creations for some time now. The basic idea is this:

The theme will include at least one link […]