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I’ve finally gotten around to posting another free theme! This one is a theme I just did for someone, so it’s WP 3.0 compliant. The image below is a screen shot of the working theme, and has the following features:

• Two Column Design
• One Column Page Template also included as a check box option for each page.
• Sidebars include right sidebar, top sidebar, bottom sidebar, and dynamically widgetized footer
• Valid XTML
• Horizontal Menu (works great with new customizable menu found in WP)
• Vertical Menu also available if desired within the theme
• Built in Social Icons
• Built in div for Header Logo or Graphic

Let me show you what you’ll need to know in order to download this theme and edit the Header and personalize your social icons. Read the rest of this entry »

If you’ve followed some of my posts about how to edit the code of Artisteer generated templates, you might be freaking out a little that the updated version is so much different. Don’t worry. Artisteer has actually made things a little easier for you. Let me show you how. Read the rest of this entry »

Even though it’s been around a long time, I have just started messing around with an iGoogle page, and I LOVE it! Read the rest of this entry »

I’m loving the newest version of WordPress and the newest Artisteer upgrade as well that perfectly meshes with WordPress! The new features that I especially like are the new Menu options as well as the new Featured Image option. Read the rest of this entry »

I decided to give my blog a much needed face lift. However, now is really not the best time for me to do this as there are a million other projects to be done right now. So, this will be a slow update. I definitely need to simplify things on the site, and aim to do that. Some recent design projects I’ve done are the following:

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I hate spam comments, and usually my spam blocker does a pretty good job at catching them. However, I’ve recently been a little over run with spam. Here are a few things I do to ensure that they don’t make it on to the site.

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This is a post to answer a comment posted earlier today regarding the differences between Blogger and WordPress. I use both WordPress and Blogger extensively, but there are definite advantages and disadvantages to both depending upon how you plan to use them. Here’s a basic snapshot of what I feel are the major pros and cons of each as well as which I feel is the better platform.

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As I was working on redesigning theStock411 WordPress blog, I implemented two fantastic WordPress plugins. One of these plugins is WP-Sticky. I’ve known about this plugin for a while, but had never used it. It’s a nice simple way to keep one post at the top of your blog at all times. Now, there are a couple of items to note if you are using this plugin after creating your theme in Artisteer: You must change a tiny bit of php if you want to hide the date. I found a couple of forums that had parts of the following information:

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Well, I’ve been very busy on some projects recently as well as other “life” stuff that have kept me from being able to post as much as I’d like to. I just completed a full WordPress website for a company that I did a WP blog for several months ago. They wanted their whole site transformed and consolidated into one WordPress Site. It was a huge process as I had to set up WordPress in their current hosting location, transfer the old blog over to it, and completely design and add content to their site from top to bottom.

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I so enjoyed working with Annie from Annie Kennedy Photography as we helped to give her a presence as she starts her new business venture.

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