Archive for Blog Design
Written on November 3rd, 2009 at 01:11 am by Darren Rowse
Thesis Theme for WordPress Upgrades to Version 1.6
One of my favorite WordPress themes – Thesis – has in the last week released an update with some pretty cool features.
My strategy with blog design is like this. I generally aim towards a completely customized blog design that will give my blog a distinct look and brand – but before I work towards that [...]
Written on July 31st, 2009 at 06:07 am by Darren Rowse
Run a Competition to Find Your Next WordPress Blog Design
One of the most common questions I’m asked by readers starting out with blogging is around blog design and how they can get an affordable but unique blog design.
The irony of this is that I’m a self confessed dud when it comes to blog design. These days I hire others to do custom designs for [...]
Written on July 23rd, 2009 at 12:07 am by Darren Rowse
79% of Bloggers Pay Nothing for their Blog Design
Over the last few weeks the poll I’ve been running here on ProBlogger has asked people about who designed their blog. The results are in and it looks like that the vast majority of bloggers are not paying for themes.
61% of our readers are using free themes in some way – either using a default [...]
Written on July 21st, 2009 at 08:07 pm by Darren Rowse
Theme Wars – Where WP Themes ‘Battle’
This is one of the cooler ideas I’ve seen in a while – it’s a WordPress theme site with a twist – ThemeWars.
Each week two WordPress themes are featured and readers are asked to vote for their favorite. While obviously the site’s about selling WP themes it’s also kind of fun and will be interesting [...]
Written on May 18th, 2009 at 12:05 am by Darren Rowse
Designing a Custom WordPress Theme – Working with a Designer [PART 2]
Today, Amir Helzer from WPML (WordPress Multilingual) shares his experience building a custom WordPress theme.
In my previous post, I talked about what I do when commissioning custom WordPress theme design. It left where the job started. In this post, I’ll talk about the steps that follow – working with the designer towards a complete and [...]
Written on May 17th, 2009 at 12:05 am by Darren Rowse
Designing a Custom WordPress Theme – Working with a Designer
Today, Amir Helzer from WPML (WordPress Multilingual) shares his experience building a custom WordPress theme.
When you’re designing your blog all sorts of options are open to you – starting with a free theme (that you can later edit), through a premium customizable theme (like Thesis or Revolution2) and ending with a custom theme, created just [...]
Written on May 1st, 2009 at 10:05 am by Darren Rowse
Thesis WordPress Theme Version 1.5 Launches!
Regular readers of ProBlogger know that I’m a fan of Chris Pearson and his popular Thesis theme for WordPress.
I’ve been using Thesis on TwiTip since I started that blog back in November and have been very satisfied with it.
Chris has just launched version 1.5 of Thesis – a significant update upon the previous one. You [...]
Written on February 6th, 2009 at 12:02 am by Darren Rowse
How To Sleep Better After an Upgrade – Blog Unit Testing
Upgrading your blog platform? This guest post from Sid Savara, who writes about personal development and personal productivity is for you.
If you’re a Thesis user (like me) you may have had some issues recently when upgrading to version 1.4. The issues affected a minority of Thesis users, and required reverting to an old [...]
Written on January 23rd, 2009 at 12:01 am by Darren Rowse
How to ReDesign a Blog [Part II]
This post is the 2nd in a two part series in which Matt Brett shares how he approached redesigning Digital Photography School. Read Part 1 Here.
When it came to developing the new Digital Photography School, the real challenge was brought to the table. How was I going to house three blogs under one roof? There [...]
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