I Lied … RockinRedhead is My Next Free WordPress Release
Just released RockinRedHead … a 2-column, widget ready, red and white free WordPress theme with orange highlights. Download it here. Demo it here. But seriously … I think NotePad will be my next release. It’s odd … but who cares.
My Next Free WordPress Theme Release: A Simple NotePad
Just looking at some of the free WordPress themes out there … I couldn’t help but think there needed to be a theme where someone could just jot their notes … or research … or scribbles of short thoughts using WordPress. The obstacle I saw is that so many themes are designed for lots of…
Advice I Give To My Clients: On Finding Quality Photos
One of the hardest things about blogging is finding quality photos to use in your graphical headers. Here are a couple of places I use to find top-notch photos and graphics. IStockPhotos – it’s a paid site, but the quality is great Stock.Xchng – free site, good stuff, check the restrictions Flickr’s Creative Commons photos…
Advice I Give My Clients: Add This To Your Blog
One of the things I’ve struggled with is adding social bookmarking functions like del.icio.us and Digg to my blogs … Now with AddThis, it is all bundled into one nice, neat, little button. Check out the AddThis WordPress Plugin also. [Originally seen and coveted on ProBlogger]
The Darkside … My First Dark Free WordPress Theme Released
Yes, I’ve gone to the Darkside … with RockinDarkQ. Download it here. Demo it here. Look for a three column version coming up … Oh, while you’re at it … check out Nathan’s RockinSeaside … most people don’t know it, but he’s one heck of a WordPress coder … and if you check out that…
Blogs Can Be a High-Tech Resume
I’m a big Penelop Trunk fan and reading her post Blogging Essential For a Good Career again made me think about the web design work I’m doing — i.e. custom WordPress themes — and how, as she pointed out in that post, blogging can be leveraged to “get a job.” Speaking from experience, I personally…
How To Launch a Wildly Successful Web 2.0 Company and Get Rich
Just reading some of the awesome success stories of Web 2.0 companies and seeing them cash out and become instant millionaires … I thought I’d throw up my “how to get rich” list … I must say … I’m not rich, have never cashed out … and probably never will in this way … and…
How to Increase Your Blog’s Email Newsletter and Feeds Subscriptions
I’ve started a new category called “Advice I Give My Clients” and while I might not give everything away through this series of posts … I’m planning on giving some good advice I’ve learned in my blogging experience. So here’s the first in this series … how to increase your blog’s email newsletter and feed…
My Next Free WordPress Theme Release … Going Dark For the First Time
So far I haven’t done a dark theme for public release … But my next release is … and it’s based on one of my most popular themes (and very first theme) RockinBlue, which has more than 2,000 downloads … it’s a two column, red/orange color scheme dark theme. I’m naming this one RockinDarkQ …
One Instant Messaging Chat Window To Rule Them All: Meebo
Through a blogger using my RockinPaper theme, I found an incredible Web 2.0 service called Meebo today … Meebo lets you do all your chatting in one place … with Yahoo! Instant Messenger, or MSN Live, or Google Talk … all in one browser window. Very convenient! Check it out … I’m using this to…