Just got done experimenting with a theme. This time – no photoshop mockups are done; went ahead and dove right in coding. I ended up with a simple, non-graphic intensive theme. Named it after one of my all time favorite fonts – the Garamond.
The Home Page
The Garamond’s home page mimicks a magazine layout. This [...]

We all have seen Wordpress sites with repeating backgrounds that span beautifully across the entire page. This property is usually applied in the body tag of your template. What about those portfolio websites that use a different background image in the front page? Or those magazine styled websites that apply different backgrounds for their [...]

Just finished a theme I developed and its called Eureka. Eureka is a classic web 2.0 styled theme for Wordpress. It can be used for a regular blog or as a CMS. It has a standard two column layout using 960.gs CSS framework. Templates for archives, categories, as well as a bonus home page template [...]

Another one to give away to my fellow designers looking for a quick way to mock up a website. In this case – an elementary school. This is one of those contest that ooooh, came sooo close to winning. The contest I refer to are the ones similar to crowdspring and 99designs. Its an entire [...]

After a grueling process, the theme “Some Squid Ink” finally got approved for sale at Theme Forest. Grueling because Theme Forest follow a strict set of standards when it comes to their stuff that goes for sale. The tricky part was to get the theme working on all major browsers, including the dreaded IE 6. [...]

Many of us know that having to upload multiple images to accommodate your theme is redundant and time consuming. That is why Wordpress is built with an automatic resizing function for all uploaded images to your media library. The question is: how do you insert them into your custom theme without having to use multiple [...]