My themes are now featured on Themelib.com
I am a frequent reader of Themelib.com and today I went to the site and found out that 3 of my WordPress themes are listed there! Themelib.com is in my subscription list because this site releases timely and useful updates and resources. I notice that one of the topics that Themelib write about regularly is the featuring of WordPress themes. On closer look, most of the themes featured on Themelib are paid one. Yes. There are a lot of featured free themes but majority are for the Blogger platform. You hardly find WordPress themes that are free. I am honored that Themelib.com featured 3 of my themes. I only have 10 themes right now. If you want to find more free quality WordPress Themes, be sure to visit Theme Lib. And if you are looking for Premium WordPress Themes, you can’t miss...
Read MoreTop 15 Tips To Increase Twitter Traffic To Your Blog
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. PUT VALUE TO YOUR TWEETS TIP #4 You should work hard to make each tweet interesting and worth reading to your target audience. Put your best foot, or rather, tweet forward and surely your followers will decide to click on and check out your profile and your blog. TIP #5 Make your tweets an attention grabber by writing things which are interesting to the community. Be on the look out for hot topics and be ready to post the article in your blog. Members of the twitter community will be truly interested with you and what you have to say. They will soon drop by your site or blog once you have announced to the community what you have written. TIP #6 Interesting people are great followers of other interesting people. In the twitter community you have to follow people whom you think are interesting. However, don’t follow people only because everyone else is following them. BE A FRIENDLY TWITTERER AND EXPRESS IT TIP #7 You should be helpful, useful and friendly member of the community. Be gracious and thank people when they follow you on twitter with a direct message. You should utilize your expertise to help fellow twitters find solutions to their requests and questions. Your intention is to gain acceptance and trust of the Twitter community and to become an authority in the area you are perceived to operate on. TIP #8 Do not oversell your blog and your blog articles. Being a hard sell will not bring good to you, your profile and your blog. You may have gotten somebody to follow you, but if you don’t provide value to them, they can just easily unfollow you. TIP #9 You should restrain yourself from tweeting to much as many twitterers might make your followers unfollow you. Three tweets a day would just work out fine. You can use TweetStats to learn...
Read MorePhotographic Film
Latest Version: 3.00 Added on: 2015/05/07 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 😳 Click on the “Free Download” link above to get the theme now! By using this theme for FREE, you agree to accept the external links. Gain access to the fully layered Photoshop file for quick and easy tweakage. PSD files included for both the main and the sub themes. Ad-Free PackageRemoving the credit links will make the theme to not function properly. Unencrypted main and sub theme files can be purchased at $20. Theme CustomizationDo you want to customize this theme to include images that suit your blog's topic? I can help you with the graphical customization. For more details, please visit the theme customization service page. The following is an example of a custom design of the Photographic Film theme. Main Features – User-friendly Options page – Custom Menu – Custom Menu Icons – Automatic Thumbnails – Different design for sticky post feature – Compatible with IE7, IE8, IE9, Firefox, Chrome, Safari, Opera – W3C XHTML and CSS compliant – SEO ready – Gravatar enable Automatic Thumbnails Please refer to this page for the details of how the automatic thumbnails work. Drop-down Menu The Metro Brisbane theme has a multi-level drop-down menu. There are two ways to create the drop-down menu. 1) When you create hierarchical pages, the drop-down menu will show up automatically in the header navigation. 2) You can manually define the header links using the custom menu. To do it, first, click on the “Menus” link found under the “Appearance” tab in WP admin. Then follow the instruction on the page to add your custom menu. This feature only works with WP 3+. This is another feature that will be added to all my future themes. Plugin There is a featured content section below the header link. This feature is built in using the Featured Content Gallery (FCG) plugin. Please download the latest version and follow the instruction found in “Readme.txt” to do the setup. If you do not want to show this feature, just don’t install the plugin. Blog Title and Description The demo is showing a special font as below: By default, after you install the theme, the blog title and description are showing the Arial font. You can change the font style by following this instruction: Part 1: Modifying Font Style – Download this PSD zip file (also include the font for this theme) – Extract and open the PSD file in the Photoshop/ImageReady/Gimp/PaintShop program – Change the title and description using your desired font (you are free to modify the header image if you want) – Save the image using this name: bg_header.jpg – Upload the image to your server in the “/styles/default/” folder Part 2: Activating the Style – Login to your WP admin – Go to the options page of the Photographic Film theme under “Appearance -> Photographic Film” – Find “Theme Style” under “Layout Setting” – In the pull-down menu, select “default.css” – Save the setting and go to your site to see the changes. Ad Widget An ad widget can be found under the “Available Widgets” section. You can drag the widget to Sidebar 1. This widget allows you to add your advertisement while keeping the sidebar design. Please limit the width of your ad to 250px. User...
Read More60+ Grunge Effect Tutorials in Photoshop/Illustrator
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 Easy Photo Grunge Effect with Photoshop You’ll learn some non-destructive image editing techniques. It will bring out the best in an image while keeping the original photo intact. Ace Of Spades Grungy Effect using Photoshop You will be creating an old ace of spades using multiple layers using a photo from iStockPhoto. You can use this technique to create an aged paper effect too. Business Card Grunge Tutorial using Photoshop This tutorial shows you how to set up a vertical grungy business card template with front to back and ready to print. An Old-College Grungy Poster with Photoshop In this tutorial we’ll put together a poster where there is a main photograph and a lot of text using the old-collage feel. The Dark Knight Grungy Wallpaper using Photoshop This tutorial shows you how to quickly design a grunge-style Dark-Knight wallpaper. The Fall of Troy Grunge Poster using Photoshop and Illustrator Your need NO drawing talent to do this but you need Adobe Photoshop 7.0 or higher and Illustrator CS2 or higher to design the grunge effect. Paper Wrinkled Effect Grungy Stock Textures using Photoshop This is a quick art piece. The author demonstrated the use of grungy texture effect in artwork. Urban City on Grunge Background In this Photoshop tutorial, you’ll learn how to add a grungy scene effect to your photos. Music Logo on a Grunge Background with Photoshop This tutorial shows you the techniques to make a logo and background for a cool grunge-style Website. Own Crazy Movie Poster using Photoshop Wicked-Worn Vintage Pop Art Design in Photoshop A basic to intermediate tutorial that you don’t need to be a guru to work with this grungy effect and get an awesome result! Decaying Metal Sign using Photoshop You’ll learn how to create a rusty sheet sign, a nice grungy look can be rather refreshing these days. Graffiti Stamp Art using Photoshop You’ll learn how to use brush tool for painting and create instances of stencil or stamp art as well. Grungy Urban City in Photoshop The Louis Daguerre Grungy effect using Photoshop You’ll learn how to create a Daguerreotypes image in this tutorial. Grunge Rubber Stamp in Photoshop A simple tutorial showing how to make a grungy rubber stamp. Trendy Geometric Lines Design Tutorial in Illustrator and Photoshop This tutorial shows you how to create a group of vector based geometric lines at dynamic 45 degree angles using Illustrator. Then follow by brush textures in Adobe Photoshop to result in a cool and trendy design style. Ripped and Torn Edges in Photoshop This tutorial shows you how to create the ripped, torn and distressed effect using masking and brush techniques. Creating Grunge Border using Photoshop This tutorial shows you how to an easy way of creating decent looking borders. Old Paper With Custom Brushes using Photoshop You’ll learn how to create a Custom...
Read MoreBloggerStyles/Falconhive – Official WP Theme Converter for Templatelite
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...
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