theme: fresco by milienzo.com
This theme works for me on a couple of levels. Firstly it’s a nicely flexible, colourful, uncluttered theme.
Secondly, I like the way the theme got released, from the designers blog:
I have had lots of positive feedback and one or two people have emailed me asking if they could use my WordPress theme.
The style and branding [...]
Experiments: magnify video on WordPress update
A few days ago i covered an experiment into collecting WordPress related video into a single source using magnify.net. At the time the widget for embedding a player in your WordPress blog failed to work on this site.
Following this I received an email from Steve from magnify.net (sometimes I think everyone on the face of [...]
quicklink: tech cocktail needs a redesign
Tech blog tech cocktail is looking for a redesign.
So, if you’re a theme designer looking for inspiration to fill your weekend head over to this post and see what you can come up with.
theme: Sakura floral wordpress theme by area381
This theme reminds me of a duvet cover I once saw in John Lewis.
I can also see it being used for a guys personal blog. It’s kind of the equivalent of those stupid pink floral shirts we wear occassionally to prove that we’re comfortable with our feminine side (or is that just me?).
The developers [...]
quicktips: Hack WordPress to handle mixed Arabic / English posting
Posting in a multi-lingual blog is hard enough if you are swapping between French and English, but swapping from Arabic to English also involves swapping the order in which the characters appear on screen.
This post gives a neat solution to this problem which can probably be hacked to handle a number of other cases where [...]
Themes: comedy iphone wordpress theme
Personally I’m totally underwhelmed by the Apple iPhone. Yeah, it looks pretty. Yeah, it’s really shiny. Yeah, it marks you as a grade A geek. All of which is great. But that thing is HUGE.
Anyway - this theme gives you all of the cool styling goodness of the iPhone on your WordPress blog. What could [...]
Interview: Scot at meridiancrest.com
Young blogs can be interesting as they chase a look, a content balance and a purpose. I’ve been impressed with meridiancrest.com on both a content front and a style front as Scot has covered everything from his technorati mission to break into 5 figures to an interview with the guy behind wootagent.
The focus of our [...]
Experiments: Video minisite
Inspired by my previous post on video in WordPress, this post on TechCrunch made me wonder how much WordPress video coverage might be out there waiting to be gathered together.
Magnify.net should provide a quick and easy way to find out, try out, and publish the results all in one step.
The registration process was very quick, [...]
