I wanted to add a guest blogger block on my new site BloggerBarter. You know the block that shows a little bio with a photo of the guest blogger. The first time I notice someone using one was on emoms at home. Here is an example from her blog Scroll to the bottom to [...]

I just got an email about A scholarship program for web designers. The website owners want a new design for their new Wordpress powered site.
The deadline is midnight August 12th, and the prize will be $5000. You may recognize most of the judges.
It looks like it could be fun!
Judges

Paul Stamatiou
David Airey
Steve Smith
Darius A Monsef IV
Bryan [...]

BloggerBarter I recently started a new project with the hopes of participation. You see I want it to be a place where bloggers help each other and enrich their knowledge of the blogging craft. Guest bloggers are welcome. I’ve also setup a forum area for discussion and questions. To learn more about this project and [...]

I thought I would offer some link love today. So here are some of the blogs I read, along with my favorite posts on each.
I’m a big fan of Small Potato at WPDesigner, I have gotten a lot of help with his theme design tutorials
I regularly read clash. Arpit Jacob produces tons of content [...]

When developing a website I use a few FireFox extensions, so I thought I would share.
Web Developer – This is a tool you can’t live without. You can disable css, JavaScript, reveal passwords. One of the coolest things it does is outline elements & block elements.

View formatted source – This one is not as well [...]

I want to share a very unique way to make money from your blog.
I just found out that one of the companies I work with is having a special, so I wanted to share it with you. I’ve been working with this firm since 2004, and though it hasn’t made me rich, yet. It [...]

Before I really started digging deeper into WordPress themes, I mostly altered the images with Macromedia Fireworks to change the look of the theme. It’s a rather easy thing to do. It’s so easy it might not even warrant this post.
So here’s what you do. Download your theme and open all the images in the [...]

I found a nice little way to spice up you Google ads last week and I thought I would share it with you. Basically you can use styles to place a background image under the ads.
Here is a sample:

Here is the site that has some templates already made.

If you would like a really fun challenge, and you have a wicked way with style sheets you should think of throwing your hat into the competition. There are only a few days left, so you better get hoping. You don’t even need much knowledge of WordPress to do an awesome skin.
All you need is [...]

You may have noticed the WordPress theme community has slowed to a snails pace. You don’t need to be worried. There are a few factors that seem to have slowed the addition of new themes.
SandBox Competition - If you don’t know about this one; Where you been? Sandbox is a template that adds enhancements, and [...]