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Tips To Make Your Blog Search Engine Friendly

Here are a couple of blog posts that give some great information regarding making your WordPress blog theme more SEO friendly. There are a bunch of good tips and I recommend that you take advantage of them.
The first, How To SEO Your WordPress Theme, was written by Courtney Tuttle, of Court’s Internet Marketing School, [...]

Testing This Theme…

I’ve just finished working on this theme, “Dark Matter”, for my wife’s blog, and so I’m testing it here prior to uploading it to her site. If someone who owns a Mac and/or uses a browser other than Firefox and IE7 could tell me how it looks, I’d appreciate it.
I’m not a fan of [...]

There Are Times

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There are times when I’m designing a theme that I just want to beat Internet Explorer to death with a sledge hammer.
For those of you who are still using Internet Explorer, download Firefox and see what the web is really supposed to look like.
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WP Cumulus - One Really Cool WordPress Plugin

Roy Tanck has created one of the coolest plugins for WordPress 2.3+ that I’ve seen. WP Cumulus creates a flash based revolving tag cloud that has to be seen to be appreciated. The plugin also gives you the option to change color, background, width, and height to fit your blog.
Besides, it’s [...]

A New Default Theme Contest

Ian Stewart over at ThemeShaper is giving away 7 premium iThemes WordPress themes to the winner of their default theme contest. It’s a great idea to help come up with a new default theme, and I applaud his efforts.
I made a comment on the post that, after further reflection, I’d like to expand on [...]

Author Exposed Plugin

Igor from Color Light Studio has created a great plugin which he calls Author Exposed. From his site:
This plugin does the same thing as the_author() tag only this time it’s linked to hidden layer (div). By clicking on the author link the layer pop’s up with author info gathered from the profile page, plus [...]

Black & Red Theme

Since I couldn’t think of a better name, here’s the Black & Red Theme that was created during the tutorial on Creating Your Own WordPress Theme. There are no restrictions on usage since it’s released under the GPL, but I would appreciate you keeping the link in the footer. Other than that, I [...]