After months of tinkering with the Thesis framework, I decided that I wasn’t happy with it. Not that Thesis is a poor framework. Far from it. The problem is, I just haven’t mastered the fine art of coding and decided that I don’t really want to. I’d rather write actual words and create eye-catching designs [...] Read more »
Is the Thesis 1.6 Upgrade Worth It?
After watching Marko Saric’s video tutorial of Thesis 1.6, I decided to give it a try on my website and my blog. The installation process on my website went pretty much without a hitch. I say pretty much, because the upgrade didn’t include the code that I had used to design my interface. The reason [...] Read more »
Things to Consider Before Buying Thesis
After all my research on Thesis, I finally found one post that doesn’t glow with kudos. Raju of Technically Personal feels that Thesis is way over-hyped for what it is. He contends that you can find free themes that may suit your intended purposes equal to or better. Three weeks after my purchase, I have [...] Read more »
Midway Review of Thesis for WordPress, Part One
Once I got over the frustration of creating the header and footer, I began to poke around some more with the site. I also checked out the multitude of tutorials scattered around the Internet. Pages One of the tutorials showed me how to change the order of my pages with a simple drag-and-drop. That was [...] Read more »
A Preliminary Review of the Thesis Theme for WordPress
Thesis for WordPress isn’t a theme, so much as a theme framework. Sure, you can use the stock vanilla theme that comes with the package. But most people buy Thesis with the idea of customizing it to suit their own style. That was the reason why I invested in the program. My Experience Installing the [...] Read more »
Saying Goodbye to Free WordPress Themes
I’m in the process of changing this blog’s design, hopefully for the very last time. If you’ve been reading my blog for any length of time, then you’ll know how many themes I’ve gone through. Too many. For one reason or another, I’ve never been quite happy with the themes that I’ve installed on here, [...] Read more »
Creating WordPress Themes with Artisteer
I played around with the trial version of Artisteer on my husband’s laptop last Friday and liked what I was able to do. Once I finished the preliminary design, I exported it into the WordPress format and uploaded it to see what it looked like. Other than the watermark going down both sidebars, the design [...] Read more »
Blog Upgrades and Overhauls
Last night I began fiddling around with themes, testing them out and chucking them until I found the one that you’re looking at now. My highest priority was finding a theme that I can customize for my How to Create a Custom Twitter Background, blog so that it integrates nicely with my ecommerce site. I [...] Read more »
WordPress 2.5 – Day Two
A huge thanks to John and Jim, who offered a great list of plugins for this new upgrade. The admin dropdown menu plugin and the Remove Max Width are essential in getting the old feel of WordPress back onto your browser. Other plugins that work great with WordPress 2.5: 1. IImage Browser: I love this [...] Read more »
First Impression of WordPress 2.5
I’ve been debating whether or not to upgrade my blogs to WordPress 2.5 for a couple of weeks now, but held off mainly because I was busy and I wanted to read about any bugs that needed fixing first. Ever since 2.0 came out, I’ve been cautious about jumping for the upgrades. Tonight, I decided [...] Read more »
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