http://www.freewordpressthemes.com/blog Quality Free WordPress Themes Fri, 16 May 2008 01:59:42 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en 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 ... http://www.freewordpressthemes.com/blog/themes/story-theme-free-wordpress-theme-from-performancing/ 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 ... http://www.freewordpressthemes.com/blog/blog-design/dark-themes-are-back/ 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 ... http://www.freewordpressthemes.com/blog/blog-design/cutline-13-released/ We've been receiving complaints of login problems lately, so we did a few fixes here and there, and the problem is fixed. Thing is, FreeWordPressThemes is a growing site, with a growing user base and community. So sometimes we fail to notice we're already nearing our hosting account's storage quota, ... http://www.freewordpressthemes.com/blog/announcements/login-problems-solved/ 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 ... http://www.freewordpressthemes.com/blog/themes/one-in-a-million-free-wordpress-theme-from-performancing/ 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 ... http://www.freewordpressthemes.com/blog/themes/the-next-wordpress-default-theme-contest/ Update (March 25, 2008): WPDesigner.com has a new owner. WPDesigner.com, one of the most prominent sources of quality WordPress themes by Tung Do (Small Potato aka SP), is now being but up for sale. WPDesigner is such a young site (it started in 2006), with such a young designer (he's 21 ... http://www.freewordpressthemes.com/blog/designers/wpdesignercom-is-up-for-sale/ The release of WordPress 2.5 has been delayed by a week. Expect it to be out by March 17, 2008. http://www.freewordpressthemes.com/blog/software/wordpress-25-release-is-delayed/ 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 ... http://www.freewordpressthemes.com/blog/themes/helpful-tools-for-wordpress-theme-designers/ 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 ... http://www.freewordpressthemes.com/blog/themes/foolproof-wordpress-themes-that-require-plugins/