2009-03-09 posted in Wordpress and Blogging Tips

Twitter has taken the blogging community by storm. A lot of people are now hooked to it and are now active Twitter users.

Twitter is a free service that allows people to stay in touch with each other through the exchange of quick and frequent answers to simple questions.

It is some sort of micro-blogging service that allows users to send a little 140-character messages out to “followers” and exchanging bits and pieces of information and potentially exposing that conversation to the larger grid.

A lot of practical tips are provided to potential and active twitter users or twitterers. This article has generated a list of 15 top pick tips that are essential in increasing twitter traffic to your blog.

These 15 tips revolve around major performance goals. The 15 tips shall be presented under the relevant performance goals.

BE A BRANDED TWITTERER, EXPRESS YOUR IMAGE

TIP #1
Exert effort at customizing your Twitter profile by providing it with your picture. A lot of people don’t like to send tweets to faceless twitterers. Include in the profile your blog URL and description. Most of twitterers check profile before they decide to follow you or not.

TIP #2
Generate interest and strong and positive impression by treating your tweets as your article headline. You should also avoid making your background look like some sort of an advertisement as it will definitely turn people off.

TIP #3
Monitor everything that is happening within your blog field and exert effort to be perceived as an expert twitterer on a subject related to your blog. Link to quality resources and people will surely look at you as an authority on whatever interest you are espousing in your blog.

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2009-03-07 posted in Wordpress Themes

Latest Version: 1.00
Added on: 2009/03/07

How many of you have used the film camera before? Photographic film was still a mainstream in the photographic industry 10 years ago and now, it has been replaced by the digital device. See how fast technology evolves.

This theme has a vintage look aim at bringing back all your sweet memories :oops:

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Photographic Film Wordpress Theme
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2009-03-05 posted in Useful Resources

Grunge has become more and more popular and is the next generation of design. Shiny and glossy designs are now outdated.

Grunge effect consists of stains, dirty textures, rips, torn images, decay, broken icon and scratches to form a dark and gritty result. Seems ugly? Not really. If the effect is done correctly, you’ll get professional result! In this post, I have listed 60+ nice grunge effect tutorials. Enjoy :)

Wanted Poster Grunge Effect using Photoshop
This grunge tutorial shows you how to create a “wanted” grungy poster. There are many different Photoshop techniques and using many separate layers in a non-destructive way.    

Grunge Type Using Photoshop
You will know how to make grunge/worn style type in this Photoshop Tutorial.

Distressed effects in Photoshop

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2009-03-04 posted in Wordpress Themes

Latest Version: 3.00
Updated on: 2010/08/24

Presenting to you the Watercolor theme, this time, I created a theme with different design style.

Colorful as it is, this theme uses a lot of free style and smudging techniques, thus giving you the watercolor painting look that is so different from other themes you have seen.

Hope you’ll like my latest creation :)

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Watercolor Wordpress Theme
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2009-03-02 posted in About My Themes, Latest News

I am very selective as to who I want to partner with. A good partner will make my business flourish and a bad partner will affect my business in a negative way. I am a person who puts a lot of emphasis on the quality so I choose only good partners.

In my search for the Blogger/Blogspot templates, I found out that many of the good templates are converted from the Wordpress themes. This was when I started to think: it will affect my reputation in the Blogger world if my themes have been converted poorly. I need a good coder to convert my themes!

I am glad that I found Alvaris Falcon, the owner of Falconhive.com and the co-owner of BloggerStyles.com. Though he has only 9 months experience in converting Wordpress theme to the Blogger platform, his converted templates are so Blogger-friendly. Until now, he is still very active in doing the conversion work. You’ll see 1-3 new Wordpress themes converted by him to Blogger almost every week. Check out Falconhive and Blogger Styles for more info.

I also notice that Alvaris won’t stop there after finishing the theme conversion. He will make sure that his converted Blogger templates work. When the template users reported any problems, he will look into them and try his best to solve them. Each revision being released signify less problems for the template. Take a look at how he handles the support on one of his most popular converted templates, Zinmag Primus and you’ll know what I mean.

Due to all his effort being put in the theme conversion, I am sure he will do a fantastic job in converting my Wordpress themes to the Blogger platform. In this January, I contacted him about my request of making him the official converter of my Wordpress themes. I am glad that he accepted it.

In this post, I’d like to announce that BloggerStyles/Falconhive has been given the rights to be the official Wordpress theme converter for Templatelite!