Archive: July 2008

Office life…

Posted on July 24, 2008 in Freelancing, General

I’ve been freelancing since October of 2007. It’s been super fun thus far, and I don’t have any regrets for taking the risk of going solo instead of getting a regular 9-5 office job. Up until now, I have been working from home. Now this obviously has it’s pros and cons, but overall I have [...]

New WordPress themes directory

Posted on July 23, 2008 in Announcements, WordPress

This is slightly stale news by now, but I need to get my 2cents worth. WordPress have announced the opening their brand new theme directory to the public. The directory follows the same familiar format as the plugins directory, so if you are familiar with the latter you should feel comfortable with the new directory [...]

Free themes announcement

Posted on July 23, 2008 in Announcements, WordPress

I’ve released two brand new FREE WordPress themes in the last two days. The first is Base Dark, which is a light on dark variation of Base. The two themes are exactly the same, but I decided to make the light on dark version after a user request. So again, the theme focuses on doing [...]

Inspired: Scott Hansen | ISO50

Posted on July 21, 2008 in Inspired

I’ve been a big fan of Scott Hansen’s work for a quite a while now. I first saw his work via Styleboost, back in 2005. His use of colors, lines and textures is truly awesome, and has inspired alot of designers.

Changing a lost WordPress password

Posted on July 14, 2008 in WordPress

Have you ever lost your WordPress admin password and not been able to recover it? This has happened to me once or twice in the past. It happened again today, I just completely forgot the password. Trying to recover it using my email address didn’t work either.
So naturally I went snooping around the database of [...]

Default Free Theme Features

Posted on July 14, 2008 in WordPress

These features are included by default with all my free WordPress themes, unless stated otherwise. All theme-specific additional features will be listed with the themes. *Please note that the features listed here are additional to the basic stuff, like content ul, image and comments styling. I feel that those should be standard and pretty [...]

Pattern design tool

Posted on July 11, 2008 in Web Design Tools

Background patterns are awesome. When done right they add an interesting depth and texture to a design, without being obtrusive. Unfortunately I’ve never been very good at designing patterns. That was until today when I discovered bgpatterns.com.

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