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:

1. Compliant with W3C standard
2. Work on the latest WordPress version
3. Compatible with major browsers that include IE6, IE7 (maybe IE8 later), Firefox, Chrome, Opera, Safari
4. Gravatar supported
5. 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.
6. 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 Gold.