This month’s free theme from Performancing is called Story Theme and is created by Design Disease.

It’s a three column design with the content on the far left, followed by two sidebars. The color scheme uses a subtle mix of tans, oranges and browns to provide great texture and depth for your blog.

You can preview and […]

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 […]

This month’s free WordPress theme from Performancing is One in a Million, designed by Thord Daniel Hedengren.

One in a Million is a three-column theme for WordPress featuring a fixed-width layout with a center-positioned main content column. The theme is easy on the eyes, using subdued hues and clean typefaces. The header and footer have an […]

ThemeShaper has launched a different kind of theme contest: The Next WordPress Default Theme. In this contest, participants are to submit ideas (instead of full-fledged themes) for what should be the next default WP theme.

It’s easy to win. Just let the community know what you think the next WordPress default theme should be like. All […]

Aspiring WordPress theme designers should take a look at this Developer Toolkit by iThemes. It’s not so much a downloadble kit as it is a tutorial page containing links to helpful tools in creating a WordPress theme. But there are some tools and tips that were overlooked:
Firebug for Firefox
Although mentioned in one of the links, […]

It’s amazing how many designers out there still don’t follow the best practices when creating WordPress themes. When ordinary bloggers download your theme and encounter horrific error messages, what are the chances that they’ll figure out how to fix it?
The most common culprit is required plugins. Do not assume that everybody uses the same […]

This month’s free WordPress theme from Performancing is the Simplicity theme, designed by the449.

It’s a simple theme, with a hint of Magazine style, that is easy to build upon and is easily customizable through support of widgets and super-clean code. Simplicity is engineered to be highly accessible, work beautifully with a screen reader and uses […]

We love WordPress because it’s especially versatile. Strictly speaking it’s a blogging tool but we’ve seen many websites that have taken it to the next level: tumblelogs, newspapers, magazines, CSS galleries, shopping carts, even link directories!
Now most of the time those customizations are achieved with plugins, but did you know themes can do that as […]

Christmas is a season and not just a day (Christmas starts on December 25th and lasts for two weeks, actually), so I would think that I’m not too late in posting about this just this week. The Performancing ‘Tis the Season theme for WordPress is still very much applicable for the remainder of the Christmas […]