No new posts in 10 days! I can hardly believe it myself, but when you are having fun time flies. And by fun I mean busy(oh and those few days I took off). I feel it is important for me to unplug from the interwebs every now and then and recharge the batteries. A few updates:
Template for Sale
I have a WordPress Template for sell on DigitalPoint right now, if you are in the market for a unique design this could be a great way to get a website from me for CHEAP. Check it out now!
Template for Free
You are probably more interested in this one. I am releasing another free WordPress template! It’s name? …CHECKMATE! Yes the theme that was going to charge you for is now going to be free, sorta. By sorta I mean the blog portion of Checkmate is going to be free. It is jam packed with features and customizing options, this is one you will want to “check” out. Look for the release very soon.
Freelancing
I am concentrating more of my efforts into freelancing. This will mean some changes to the site, but probably not much. I also don’t foresee a change in the direction this blog is currently heading content wise.
If you want to hire me drop me an email, leave a comment, or use the form on the about page!
Side Projects!
Can’t tell you much about this, but I am working on a new side project that is sure to make you laugh…or cry…we’ll see about that later! Just thought I’d throw that teaser out there.
Wow I got all sorts of goodies in my RSS reader today!
TimThumb
First up is the release of TimThumb by Tim McDaniels. This was a script created for use in the Mimbo Pro Premium Wordpress and Darren Hoyt and company have released it as open source. I can’t wait to try this out and start incorporating it into my themes. What it does is resize images so the user doesn’t have to anymore, and I think no matter what your level of skill this is much appreciated. Grab the files at Google Code.
bbPress ver. 0.9
The bbPress team has released a new version, which is primarily to update it to work with Wordpress 2.5. There have been a few improvements though.
- New Installer, better integration with Wordpress
- New RSS feeds
- Support for gravatars
- New core theme
- Better Security
Check out the release notes for a full list of the changes. I’ve been meaning to get my hands dirty with bbPress and I think now will be the time. Look for some themes and tutorials in the future for bbPress.
Checkmate
My premium Wordpress theme Checkmate is coming along nicely and will be released “soon”. The first release will be the blog only portion. There will be an advanced business version that will function more as a CMS coming out soon after the blog version. I’ll write a more detailed post in the coming days about the features, design, and all the rest of the details.
I was planning on posting part two of “Speed Up Your Website” but unfortunately I need to move to a new web host. I won’t go into the details but I am leaving Dreamhost for a more reliable host at Eleven2.
More tutorials, and goodies after the move to come, including the launch of Checkmate.
Update: The move to the new host has gone smoothly and everything should be back to normal except no downtime.
I told you a surprise was coming, and this is it. A free theme! I’ve named it Solid, why? Because it was the first word that came to mind when making the theme AND I believe its a pretty solid theme. While looking around at some blogs I started noticing some really nice simple blogs (design wise). These were the blogs I was stopping at and actually looking at the content. I decided to design my own theme in this fashion and this is the result.
Check out the demo page now!
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A few days ago I posted about a new premium theme, today I show you screen shots of that theme. It’s name is Checkmate and it is a departure from all the magazine and news type themes. The theme will be in two parts a business theme and a blog theme, more details on that later.
The shots below are of the blog theme, which has entered the testing and polishing phase. Checkmate will come in several color themes, has many of theme options, is easily customized, and comes with built in widgets and ad management! The design is simple and professional but is very modern.
I also will have another wordpress related surprise coming very soon.
