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 for web designers. I originally found him because of his feature: Top ten best free WordPress themes . WebAppers Is a great...

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 known as the other I mentioned, when you view the page source with this tool you can hover...

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 has been a good earner for me. So your asking, what are you babbling about? Domain name, yes you heard me right. You can your very own domain...

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 image directory with fireworks. I sometimes add a new set of layers so I can keep the layout of 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. AKPC_IDS += "79,";Popularity: 12% [?]

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 a deep understanding of css, and knack not to crack under the time constraints. Only four days left you know. Here are...

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 replaces the normal theme. It’s also ment to introduce standardization to WordPress...

There are 2 types of include tags. The first type are have set properties. they include: <?php get_header(); ?> // include header.php <?php get_footer(); ?> // include footer.php <?php get_sidebar(); ?> // include sidebar.php <?php comments_template(); ?> // include comments.php The second type is more flexible, you can include any file you want. You set the property: <?php include...

My newest WordPress theme: Indian Red Demo Here I’m very proud of this one, It’s my most complete theme. It has some very cool features. First the 4 boxes across the top are widget ready, or you can edit theme by editing the files. The left side bar is also widget ready. The bar on the left is not, felt I was pushing it a bit with five already. You can download from here right now: Indian Red I...

WordPress Theme Tags The first step in designing your own WordPress themes is to understand the theme tags. The tags are made up of very simple PHP commands. Today I will show you how to use the first command, or tag called ‘bloginfo’ and show you all of it’s features. This is how it looks with no value: <?php bloginfo(”); ?> So let me show you what you can do with this tag: Show...