Posts Tagged ‘sidebar’

Oops I did it again …

Over the past week I’ve been working on a couple new websites for clients and that has led me to re-examine my own website, frankly I wasn’t happy with what I saw so I took a little bit of time and redesigned the theme for my site to what you see now.

The site has been designed to be less of a blog and more of a feature set of my skills etc. but I also wanted to keep the blog part of the site alive, so I added a custom index page in WordPress and separated the template for pages vs. posts to appear different. The other major addition is some custom coding in the pages file which displays custom links for the Contact page and the new Blog page which features a category breakdown as well as the tag cloud for my site.

The sidebar and the homepage share custom content, called from hidden data stored as pages in WordPress. There is of course still RSS feeds and all the usual goodies that come with WordPress, since the new design is just a skin overtop the engine.

Free WordPress Theme – Pink Flowers

Pink Flower Theme

Pink Flower Theme

I’ve just wrapped up another free WordPress theme for you guys, it’s a clean and simple traditional blog theme using a lot of pink. Some people have previously commented that some of my themes are a little bit less manly than they could be but there’s a reason I choose to do these themes in pinks and blues … because there are not a lot of themes out there in pink and blue.  

As with all my themes, this one is setup to be Search Engine Optimized and makes use of proper title tags, document hierarchy and W3C compatible xHTML / CSS so even if you don’t know a thing about making cool websites, this theme is already designed for you.

Speaking of design, a special thanks to designious.com for creating the awesome flower pattern and to Smashing Magazine for making it available for free.

One other note, this theme makes use of my really cool WordPress technique for showing both icons and text in your WordPress links.

The theme is 100% free, I designed it with an ad on the left hand sidebar but you can easily remove it in the sidebar.php file (it’s even commented) all that I ask is that you don’t change the footer, but even that’s optional. If you’re using it, I’d love to hear from you.