Entries Tagged as 'Blog design'

Take 2: WordPress theme screencast

August 30th, 2006 · 1 Comment

I’ve fixed my initial attempt at doing a video tutorial on turning a web template into a WordPress theme. It now loads. As I wrote earlier, I am still finalizing the screencast but I just posted it to get initial feedback as I’m thinking of redoing the entire thing.
I wasn’t able to capture the part [...]

Tags: Blog design

Take 1: WordPress theme screencast for design-challenged non-geeks

August 29th, 2006 · 9 Comments

(UPDATED) I created a screencast on how to turn any web template into a WordPress theme. I created the screencast for someone like me a few months back: interested to use an open source template for my blog and yet not knowing how to turn it into a theme.
This is the first take because, as [...]

Tags: Blog design · Highlights

Announcing nautica-magazine WordPress theme for webzines

August 21st, 2006 · 63 Comments

To those who were waiting for this theme, I apologize for the delay in the release. I had to wade through various folders to get the latest version of the code because I was working on two sites using this theme at the same time.
I have since been using Subversion via a free project [...]

Tags: Blog design · Blogs · Open source

Nautica05-WordPress theme released

August 8th, 2006 · 21 Comments

I’ve released the nautica05-wordpress theme, a template based on the open source Nautica05 design posted at the Open Source Templates site by Studio7Designs. I used the Nautica05 template in turning this Cebu blog into a webzine, which I discussed in my previous blog post.
Nautica05-wordpress is a template for blog sites. I will be releasing later [...]

Tags: Blog design · Open source

How to use WordPress to run a magazine, news website

August 5th, 2006 · 154 Comments

This article records steps I took in using WordPress to run an online lifestyle magazine, how I made it more “magazine-like” and less like a blog. Bloggers can also use the guide if they want a different presentation of their blog.

Tags: Blog design · Blogs · Highlights · Journalism · Newsroom tech · Open source

Announcing Brighthouse-WP theme for WordPress

July 28th, 2006 · 6 Comments

I’ve finished Brighthouse-WP, my WordPress port of the Brighthouse theme for Typo. Brighthouse is a simple two-column theme that reminds me of the design of the Signal v. Noise blog. Brighthouse was designed by web interface designer Richard White for the Typo blogging platform.
I spotted the theme when I checked out the features of SlimTimer, [...]

Tags: Blog design · Open source