Twitter Weekly Updates for 2010-03-14
- RT @buysellads 20 Beautiful Fonts for Big and Effective Headlines – http://bsa.ly/he #
- RT @buysellads 5 Can’t-Miss Usability Tips for Mobile Website Designs – http://bsa.ly/h2 #
- SEO tip… RT #SEO A blog post that links to you may be an isolated node. Get the link juice flowing by social bookmarking their post. #
- So sexy… RT @houseindustries Eames Century Modern, designed by Erik van Blokland is released: http://www.houseind.com/fonts/eames/. #
- Video: The Making of Superfoam Chair.. pretty damn sweet chair http://vimeo.com/7261475 #
- RT @michelfortin 7 Indispensable Wordpress SEO Plugins http://ff.im/-h9TAQ #
- RT @buysellads 22 Fresh High-Quality Fonts for Your Designs > http://bsa.ly/fv #
- RT @AisleOne A blog dedicated to the design and manufacturing of… chairs. I'm in heaven. – http://j.mp/aqDDCV @ChairBlog #
Twitter Weekly Updates for 2010-03-07
- I want to see a mix of a Korg KP3 and the Bloom app for the ipod. hmm. maybe an idea for a new Korg product for ipad? #
- Rockin new Sennheiser 380 pros… man these sound awesome. http://bit.ly/Sennheiser380 #
- Some stats on the net. A bit scary http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T6MfnuvH4Rs #
- RT @michelfortin Watching: Is Google Really Trying "Not to Be Evil?" Stats to Think About http://bit.ly/ahLGBS #
- Free shipping on Blurb books till March 22nd.. http://blurb.com #
Video: How to Install a Wordpress Blog Fast
This video shows you how to install Wordpress fast on your website using Fanastico in Cpanel. It’s the quickest and easiest way to install WP that I know of. I am using Hostgator to demonstrate this.. they offer cpanel and fantastico with their hosting plants.
And I’m sick right now so sorry for how I sound. More videos to come. If you like these videos let me know!
Video: How to Embed and Resize Screenr Screencasts in Wordpress
Quick video on how to embed screenr screencasts into wordpress. It’s super simple and fun!
Twitter Weekly Updates for 2010-02-28
- Watching live CNN coverage of the tsunami inHawaii #
Twitter Weekly Updates for 2010-02-21
- By:Larm in Oslo starts tonight! http://www.bylarm.no/pages/eng/1 #
- WTF with Marc Maron is pretty good. Download the podcast free here http://wtfpod.com/ or via itunes. #
- When the kids are home I get nothing done #
Twitter Weekly Updates for 2010-02-14
- RT @ilovetypography RT @nytimes: Wall Street Helped to Mask Debts Shaking Europe http://nyti.ms/cWPEL1 #
- People change as does everything #
- Missin my Coco #
- Jay Leno should have retired long ago. Seriously I'd rather listen to an hour of white noise. #
- RT @YouWorkForThem MTV drops Music Television in new logo update – http://bit.ly/aax48g (via @combustionws) #
- The second part of Google's Superbowl ad http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t7QuvBs-QfE #
- Sucks we don't get to see all the super bowl commercials here in Norway #
- Watching the super bowl live in Oslo. It's 2am and half time. Weird. #
- Colts are owning. #
Article Spinner
I just stumbled onto an article spinner that makes rewriting articles really fast and simple. It actually is pretty impressive and makes creating unique content easy.
What does an article spinner do?
An article spinner allows you to take any content be it an article, PLR content, etc. and unique-ify it… ie. it replaces synonyms in your copy with words that virtually mean the same thing allowing you to easily reword your content. Read more
Twitter Weekly Updates for 2010-01-17
- Haiti Earthquake Relief!!! Easily donate via Amazon.com here http://tinyurl.com/yanagga – ever bit counts! #
HTML Email Newsletter Templates
In the process of working on some html email templates and Envato introduces a new category to their popular theme site titled Email Templates. Perfect timing! And already they have some nice looking email templates you can use to spice up your email marketing campaigns.
Here are just a few…
Airmail HTML Email Template
Airmail Email HTML Template
Airmail is a professionally designed custom HTML email template! Perfect for just about anyone – usable for everything from newsletters to eFlyers to whitepapers.
Airmail comes with 5 pre-built color options (white, green, blue, black, light blue) as well as 4 different layouts (click below for samples), but it’s also incredibly easy to customize to your or your client’s specific needs:
1. 2 Column Layout (Right Sidebar)
2. 2 Column Layout (Left Sidebar)
3. Full Width Layout
4. Post Card Layout
Customization is incredibly easy and extensive documentation is included on how to use this template. Just open it up, begin adding your content, and send it out via Aweber, MailChimp, Campaign Monitor, or your favorite HTML mail sending app.
All PSD files included (8 total)!
View Demo / View Screenshots / Buy
Twitter Weekly Updates for 2009-10-25
- Mexican Government: Big Fail http://www.cnn.com/2009/WORLD/americas/10/20/greenpeace.mexico/ #
Business Wordpress Themes
When it comes down to using wordpress to power your business website there are not a ton of themes out there that actually make your site look like a website.. and not a blog. Fortunately I’ve come across these themes that actually do a great job at making your wordpress powered site look like you’re actually running a business. I’m really fond of Delirium, Concept and Benzo because they look a bit more sleek, clean and professional.
9 Now 11 Business Wordpress Themes: Delirium, Revival, Solutions, Cubit, Concept, Octofirst, Benzo, Twicet, Quaon, iBlogPro, WhiteHouse Pro
Delirium Wordpress Theme
Delirium Features:
- Theme compatible with Wordpress 2.8.x
- 100% tableless css design.
- Advanced typography.
- Custom Login panel.
- Advanced theme options panel.
- Integrated blog.
- Attractive front page slider.
- Widget ready right sidebar.
- 4 level page oriented custom dropdown menu.
- Additional footer menu.
- Additional full width page template.
- Threaded comments.
- CSS & XHTML valid.
- Cross-browser compatible.
- IE 6 png fix.
- Delivered with .png source files (.psd files delivered upon request)
View the LIVE DEMO
Revival Wordpress Theme
Features:
- Theme compatible with Wordpress 2.8
- 100% tableless css design.
- Very lightweight and fast loading theme.
- Easily manageable front page slideshow, with ability to place as many slides as you want.
- Widget ready right sidebar and 2 front page bottom bars.
- 4 level page and category oriented superfish dropdown main menu.
- CSS & XHTML valid.
- Cross-browser compatible.
- Additional full width page template.
- Delivered with .png source files (.psd files delivered upon request)
View the LIVE DEMO
Solutions Wordpress Theme
Theme Features:
- Theme compatible with Wordpress 2.8.x
- 100% tableless css design.
- Advanced typography.
- Advanced theme options panel.
- Integrated blog.
- Front page slideshow.
- Widget ready right sidebar.
- 4 level page oriented custom dropdown menu.
- Additional footer menu.
- Additional full width page template.
- Threaded comments.
- CSS & XHTML valid.
- Cross-browser compatible.
- IE 6 png fix.
- Delivered with .png source files (.psd files delivered upon request)
View the LIVE DEMO
Cubit Wordpress Theme
Main Features:
- The theme uses a FLASH LIKE javascript image transition at the mainpage only seen in flash before which suports an unlimted number of images.
- Highly flexible admin area, you are able to edit every content from the wordpress backend
- 6 different cholor schemes
- Multilevel Dorpdown menu, Breadcrumb Navigation, Post Pagination
- jQuery Lavalamp for main menu
- Advanced comments with reply function
- Ajax Contact Form
- Unobtrusive Javascript, Fallback scenarios if Javascript is turned of by the user
- Psd Files for every Skin, if you want to edit an existing Cubit Skin or create your own
- Valid html/css, works in all major browsers (IE6,7,8. FF, Opera, Safari, Chrome)
View the LIVE DEMO
Concept Wordpress Theme
Main Features:
- In 6 Colors uniquely styled themes (Blue, Green, Pink, Orange, Green, Dark Blue).
- All Core Page Templates (Home, Content Page, Image Gallery, Blog Post w/ comments styling, Search/Results, 404, and a Contact Form)
- Custom Admin Panel (Full CMS )
- Clean, commented code
- jQuery Lightbox
- jQuery Homepage & Gallery Slider
- Optional SIFR font rendering
- Gracefully degrading code (for older browsers)
- Layout PSD Files
- All Sliced PSD files (for easy re-skinning)
- Favicon Ready (just overwrite the browser icon with your own)The Custom Admin Panel features:1. Custom stylesheet selection (dropdown).2. Custom Logo entry.3. Turn SIFR on/off.
4. Custom Homepage elements (callout box, feature box, blog feed).
5. Custom Title and Subtitles on all pages.
6. Navigation Link Control (header and footer)
7. Custom footer copyright text.
View the LIVE DEMO or buy it.
Octofirst 2 Theme features
- Easy to customize
- Theme options panel with color picker included
- Custom write panels
- Drop down menus
- 4 sidebar-enabled areas for widgets
- Portfolio lightbox gallery. you can have as many portfolio pages as you want. TimThumb generates the thumbnails automatically
- Modular homepage design, full-width option available
- Modular homepage slider (which can be replaced easily with a static image), full-width option available, can take flv videos as well
- Clean & valid code, lightweight, optimized for speed
- Functional Ajax contact form
- Dark/light/rounded/square versions, as well as a bonus super-optimized theme version (which you are demo-ing now),designed to further reduce page load times. uses combined javascript files and CSS image sprites
- Automatically rounded corners with jQuery in the rounded theme version
- Cufon font replacement which won’t hurt your SEO
- Free fonts used & included
- All PSD source files included
- Twitter plugin with xml file-based caching
- When Twitter is off, a sidebar for regular content is activated in its place
- Tested on the 2.8 WordPress branch and the current release 2.8.4
- Styling for up to 5 levels deep threaded comments
- Gravatar ready
- Scissors plugin for easy image resizing
- RSS feeds ready
- jQuery improved, degrades gracefully when Javascript is turned off
- Comes with a bonus full-width page
- Localized in 2 languages: DE & IT; po files included so you can easily generate more translations if needed
View the live demo or buy it.
Benzo Wordpress Theme
Benzo is simple and clean Wordpress theme and comes with some nice features, like an image gallery, Youtube gallery, etc.
- Video Gallery (Category based)
- Image Gallery (Category based)
- Image Slider
- Pagination
- Mootools Lightbox (Imagezoom & Slimbox)
- 3 Page Templates: Single image page, gallery page, media page
- Widgetready Sidebar
- Mootools Dropdown Navigation
- Theme Options
- Google Analytics
- Works with Wordpress 2.8.4+
View the live Benzo demo or buy it.
Twicet Wordpress Theme
Twicet Features:
- Valid XHTM Strict1.0 and CSS 2 .1, tableless Design
- jQuery Support:
- Fading Portfolio/Item slider
- Dropdwon Menu, improved with jQuery
- jQuery 100% unobtrusive wich degrades gracefully if javascript is turned off
- Gallery Page with lightbox
- Working ajax/php contact form
- Newsticker
- All PSD files I used are included
- MANY Backend options to customize the Theme:
- 5 Option Pages: general options, mainpage, portfolio, contact, blog
- Highly flexible: for example the 3 content columns on the mainpage could be a mix of pages, posts and widgets, all administrated through the backendSame goes for portfolio footer
- Extensive Documentation File included
View the live demo or purchase this theme.
Quaon Wordpress Theme
Theme Features:
- Works with WP 2.8+
- 6 Color Schemes
- Includes PSD Files
- Has a Jquery Slider
- Threaded Comments
- Dropdown menus
- And lots more!
View the Live Demo
Really nice looking theme from called iBlogPro from Pagelines… Click here for details and Demo.
Really nice looking theme from called WhiteHouse Pro from Pagelines… Click here for details and Demo.
This is not by any means a definitive list. I will be updating this post with more business wordpress themes in the future. Looking for more Premium Wordpress Themes (view my post)
New Art & Copy Documentary
Doug Pray’s a documentary film maker who’s made the movies Scratch, Surfwise and Hype! among others. He has a new movie out called Art & Copy which I’m excited about. Check out the trailer. I was happy to see George Louis in it… he’s the ad giant who created the slogan “I want my MTV!”. Anyway, really looking forward to seeing this.
Some tips from Matt Cutts about using Wordpress and ranking higher in Google
Matt Cutts from the Web Spam team at Google showcases the good and the bad of WordPress as seen through the eyes of Google, including basics on how Google search works and how you can boost your blog’s results in Google searches.
$300 worth of files for $20, from Envato
Envato’s celebrating their 3rd birthday and to celebrate they’re offering a very special Birthday Bundle that packs together 37 of their favourite items worth a total of $300 and offers them to you for a ridiculously low $20 price tag. Available for 3 days only (Aug 19 – 21) so you’ll have to hurry!! Check out the details and if you’re ready to take advantage of this great offer be sure to click the buy now button, I did!
Plastolux = Modern Design+Interiors+DIY&More
Are you a fan of modern architecture, photography, interiors or DIY projects? Then check out Plastolux, a blog run by my good friend and ol’ college buddy Tyler Goodro. He posts exceptional finds from around the web related to modern interior design, architecture etc. Very cool stuff to be seen indeed.
Here’s his words: “Plastolux used to exist as a place for me to show my portfolio. I have been a Multidisciplinary designer for 9 years now. I have a passion for interior design (heavy on the modern and retro modern side) but I do appreciate all forms of design. I spend several hours a day looking at blogs, magazines and other inspirational material. I enjoy sharing my finds, so this is how plastolux came to be.
One of my favorite things to read about is the Modern DIY. I love to see how the everyday person builds, hacks, or creates their own modern project. I will be posting as much Modern DIY as I can. I will also be sharing some of my own projects.”
10 Free Fonts from Fontfabric and Some Not So Free
I love the fonts being released by Svetoslav of Fontfabric. And they’re releasing a new one almost every week. Totally amazing. Fontfabric now has a total of 10 free fonts available and more that are not free, but totally worth paying for.
Fontfabric is an independent type foundry, which was launched at the close of 2008 by designer Svetoslav Simov who is based in Sofia, Bulgaria. Their goal is to create high-quality fonts which stand in a unique class of their own, and which will serve as a good base for any designer project whether it be web, print, t-shirt design, logo etc.
Every week, a new and totally unique font will be rolled out of production, which you can easily buy or download free of charge. Read more
