Plans for the Custom Theme Service
In the past one month, I have received about 6 requests regarding the custom theme service. This makes me think about whether I should offer custom theme design and earn extra income. After much thoughts, I figure that if I accept custom theme jobs, I won’t be able to release 4 quality free themes a month unless I hire a good coder to help me out. With that said, I would have to put in some time with the coder to ensure my themes adhere to the high standard as usual. Here’s what I have decided. I will take my time to find a good freelance coder. If I am lucky to find one, I’ll make him to be my partner and we’ll share profit for the custom theme design. When I start accepting the custom theme jobs, I’ll make another announcement on this site. [Help needed] Do you know of any good freelance coder whom you can recommend? I am looking for a coder who can convert a PSD file into a WordPress theme which satisfies the following requirements: Compliant with W3C standard Work on the latest WordPress version Compatible with major browsers that include IE6, IE7 (maybe IE8 later), Firefox, Chrome, Opera, Safari Gravatar supported Follow my CSS coding standard. Basically, it is similar to the WordPress standard. You can open the style.css file of any of my themes and study. The theme has to score Gold in ThemesPreview.com. See the details of the rating system. If you do the first 5 correctly, the theme should have no problem scoring...
Read More29 Graffiti Tutorials using Photoshop/Illustrator
Photoshop is truly a boon for artists in present scenario, as it not only paints their imagination in multitude of colors but also refine them to create some of the most striking graphics. With various Text and layers, Photoshop incorporates superb effects in graphics, which make them just wonderful. To make you more competent with these tools, a special set of 32 Graffiti tutorials using Photoshop/Illustrator isoffered for you. Just read on to know more- 1. Graffiti Drawing Tutorial This tool is use to “rasterize” the layer that contains the rectangle. It comprises five different steps, which assists you in preparation of wonderful graffiti using photoshop brushes and colors. 2. Graffiti Part 1 This graffiti imprints mark of your imagination on a real picture. It is a fun for all the graffiti lovers. 3. Realistic Graffiti Effect Photoshop Tutorial This tutorial is to provide an aspiring Photoshop graffiti writer the techniques, which is required to attach an image and graffiti with realism. 4. Graffiti in Photoshop this includes almost ten steps of learning. First step tells about selection of appropriate font, which later deals with making a custom blend of color and making it better using an amalgamation of ‘Layer 1’ (this is available on the layers palette of Photoshop) and your imagination. 5. Creating and Implementing Graffiti This tutorial is to teach you how to create your own graffiti text; it will also make you understand that how can you use your graffiti on a picture and make it realistic. 6. Amazing Graffiti HDR tutorial This graffiti tutorial incorporates mesmerizing features of HDR. Here, you will learn how to use HDR magnificently using just a single picture. 7. Make Graffiti Effect Photoshop This tutorial is to make you understand that any kind of graffiti can be created. This also demonstrates the use of CS2 tools such a ‘transform’ and ‘perspective’ of Photoshop. 8. Textured Graffiti a modern art prepared by you using different textures. Go through this article to get the most advanced tools and layers of Photoshop and prepare striking graphics. 9. Drawing Graffiti This tutorial is wonderful. It teaches how to incorporate your drawing tints into a real picture. It tells you about special tools of Photoshop, which assist a graffiti writer in changing the picture into a magnificent drawing. 10. Paint Graffiti on Wall in Photoshop This graffiti teaches how to put a virtual graffiti on the wall. The tutorial makes you understand the use of Paint Drips brushes from elliottfelix and Graffiti Set 2 from Krakograff. 11. Graffiti Effect Incorporating ten different steps, this graffiti introduces the fabulous effects of Photoshop. It teaches how one can submerge two graffiti wonderfully. 12. Draw Graffiti This tutorial is supposed to be the best for beginners, as it starts from A, B, C of the graffiti designing and teaches you how to use it in later context profoundly. 13. Graffiti Text This short and easy tutorial is to make you understand that will you be able to create some of the most amazing graffiti texts for your graphics and websites. 14. Pringle Chips Logo as Wall Graffiti Learnt in 20 different steps, this graffiti tutorial teaches learners to how to draw pringle logo and create wall graffiti. 15. Graffiti Text This graffiti tutorial will assist you in getting the expertise to add nice text to you graffiti signatures. It also uses Photoshop brushes. 16. Graffiti/Cartoon Text Effect This is one among the easiest and most interesting graffiti tutorials. It teaches you how to prepare striking cartoon...
Read MoreRed Light Theme Review by Taragana Blog
I found one of my themes, Red Light has got a very detail review by Taragana Blog (or otherwise known as Simple Thoughts). At first glance, this site seems to be very big with over 170k monthly visitors base on the Compete data. The blog has a wide range of posts that include IT-related news release, software, blogging and of course, WordPress related resources. It seems that there are a group of people behind sourcing for the useful resources because you’ll see new posts with unique views being published almost everyday (sometimes 3-4 posts/day). Back to my Red Light theme. I am amazed at the way Taragana reviewed the theme. From the layout, header, two sidebars to the date icon, color matching and SEO, the team has done such a comprehensive review. I was feeling a bit discouraged when the developers thought that the theme sucks at the first look. But the designers were quite impressed. Excerpt from Blog.taragana.com The first look inside our team sums it up pretty well, our developers jumped up and said, its too bright and flowery (effectively saying that it sucks), our designers were quite impressed. The bottom line – You need to have a bit of an artistic sense to really understand and value the theme as it is. Let’s analyze its design. That was the first impression of the developers and the designers. When they get down to the full review, the Red Light theme received well. There is only one part of the theme that needs improvement: the SEO. The review said that the title is using the standard format (not SEOed) as follows: Post...
Read MoreUsing WordPress in iPhone
Now you can start blogging from anywhere. The new facility of ‘WordPress for iPhone’ allows you to access this advanced blogging tool using your iPhone. WordPress for iPhone assists you in accomplishing a number of tasks. You can write posts, upload photos, edit pages, make a comment on any blog you visit and manage comments on your blog as well. This move of WordPress offers a great experience for all those who are familiar with the functions of iPhone as well as the WordPress tools. The ‘WordPress for iPhone’ uses an open source programming so anybody can provide his/her inputs in the development of this plugin. It is launched under GNU, the General Public License. This tool is available in 2.5.1 or higher version. If you are still not aware of this feature, you can check out WordPress official site for the tutorials and guidelines which are important to learn this advanced tool. Till now, many people have used this feature and gave a positive feedback. What are you waiting for? Start blogging today with the help of your...
Read MoreDelay of the Wooden Fence theme
My next theme, Wooden Fence (as shown under the “Upcoming New Theme” in the sidebar) is supposed to be released by end of April. However, while working on the Seagull theme, I discovered something about the comment section that I have been doing improperly. Hence, I need to do a more thorough study about the coding now instead of procrastinating until the next release. Whenever I found a problem that will potentially affect the functionality of the themes, I need to get down to fixing it before it affects more themes. This is a very minor issue so don’t you worry about the themes that you have installed. They work just...
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