Top Five Free WordPress Theme Sites

Posted on May 1, 2008 by Nick

I spent a little bit of time today researching some good places to find GOOD free WordPress themes. The keyword there is “good”. I see so many bad WordPress themes used over and over again so I thought I would put together a list some of the places I go to for some good free WordPress themes.

I originally was going to post individual themes, but found there are already other posts doing the same. So I just linked to those ones!

Ok here comes the list, in order from my favorite to least favorite.

  1. Just skins
  2. “100 Excellent Free WordPress Themes”
  3. Skinpress
  4. Top WordPress Themes
  5. WPzone.net

Here are the additions! More will be added as found or received.

  1. Best WordPress Themes

If you know of any others I should add to the list let me know!

Nick

edit: I thought I would give the rich text editor another chance, but it failed miserably…

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RE: Getting the Party Started

Posted on April 29, 2008 by Nick

“Cow has a point.”

I’m posting this in response to an interesting post Jon Cow made on his blog entitled “Getting the Party Started“. The original intent was to post this as a comment, but I decided it was just getting a little too lengthy. I also thought I could make use of the methods in his post. :)

This isn’t so much a response on the post itself, but something I thought goes right along with it that can’t be without mention.

When you have those 20 posts of awesome content and you are ready to start making your blog popular, I think there is one other huge aspect that you have to think about. What is it you say? Well it’s your design! I think to stand out in the blogging world you are going to not only need great content, but a good design that users can remember you by.

The look of the site is a pretty big deal for me. I never subscribe to blogs, I visit them every time. So even if the blogger’s content is A++, if the site sucks I might not be coming back. A prime example for me was Joel Comm’s old adsense littered blog. Even though I knew the content was decent, I never enjoyed coming back to the site because it only seemed like he was trying to make some cash. It really bothered me.

I think the quality of the design in part might also have an effect on how appealing the content looks to someone. i.e. A good design only makes the content sound even better. I have noticed that if I like a website’s design, I tend to indulge deeper into the content than I would normally do. I get hooked quickly on a good design, even despite what the site has to offer.

You do have to have some content though, this kind of goes back to one of my old posts “Getting people to read your blog“. A design is nice, but when all is said and done you still need something good to keep the reader engaged. This might not be so in certain cases, but in a blog you better believe it.

All in all, it takes a good combination of both content and design to make it in the long run. Great post Cow!

I dunno, just some thoughts. What do you think?

Nick

P.S. I hope it all makes sense, I just woke up and can barely think yet!

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Managing Your Time and Productivity

Posted on April 21, 2008 by Nick

So I came across this Mac App called “RescueTime“.  It allows you to track and publish data about what you are spending the most time doing while you are using your computer.  It helped me to realize that I need to cut down on the “Youtubing” and “Facebooking” and get to work!

You can keep your stuff private, otherwise you can make it public and even embed your data on your site.  Below I have my current usage stats on my computer.  It not only tracks just applications, but also websites you visit!  You can also tag everything and sort of organize and put stuff into categories. 

I highly recommend this app for those who have trouble getting to business, or even for those who are curious and want to see where their time is spent.

To be honest I didn’t get the app to save time, I just thought it sounded like something cool to try out.  So I did!

All in all I kind of realized i’d like to spend less time on the computer, and having more fun in real life (IRL ;) ).  I also learned that I spend way too much time on sites like youtube and facebook.  If I were to cut down on the usage of those two sites, a lot of my time would be saved.

Nick

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When Life Gives You Lemons You Paint That Shit Gold

Posted on April 17, 2008 by Nick

WLGYLYPTSG

 

Don’t forget to pre-order Atmosphere’s new album “When Life Gives You Lemons You Paint That Shit Gold“!

It’s going to be incredible.  Especially with the children’s book written by the man himself.

 

Nick

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CSS diagnostics script

Posted on April 13, 2008 by Nick

I recently found a really cool script comprised of 100% CSS that will check to make sure your css is valid. All you have to do is add this code to your current CSS file and it automatically highlights all of the possible code mistakes on the page.

/* Empty Elements */

div:empty, span:empty, li:empty, p:empty, td:empty, th:empty 

{ padding: 20px; border: 5px dotted yellow !important; }

/* Empty Attributes */

*[alt=""], *[title=""], *[class=""], *[id=""], a[href=""], a[href="#"] 

{ border: 5px solid yellow !important; }

/* Deprecated Elements */

applet, basefont, center, dir, font, isindex, menu, s, strike, u 

{ border: 5px dotted red !important; }

/* Deprecated Attributes */

*[background], *[bgcolor], *[clear], *[color], *[compact], *[noshade], *[nowrap], *[size], *[start], 

*[bottommargin], *[leftmargin], *[rightmargin], *[topmargin], *[marginheight], *[marginwidth], *[alink], *[link], *[text], *[vlink],

*[align], *[valign],

*[hspace], *[vspace],

*[height], *[width],

ul[type], ol[type], li[type]

{ border: 5px solid red !important; }

/* Proposed Deprecated Elements */

input[type="button"], big, tt 

{ border: 5px dotted #33FF00 !important; }

/* Proposed Deprecated Attributes */

*[border], a[target], table[cellpadding], table[cellspacing], *[name] 

{ border: 5px solid #33FF00 !important; }

For more information check out: http://www.nealgrosskopf.com/tech/thread.asp?PID=3

Take care,
Nick

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Aim Spam, what the heck are we coming to?

Posted on April 12, 2008 by Nick

aim spam

As I just finished my last post I ended up getting “Aim Spammed”.  Have any of you others ever been spammed through AOL instant messenger before?

We are a offshore outsourcing company from India, We are expert in bulk Yahoo/Gmail/Hotmail accounts creations, Also we do bulk captcha entry, We are ready to handle all types of data related works, See our services here and let me know the services you needhttp://iamforworld.googlepages.com/brown.htm 

binil muthu: 260k yahoo accounts ready for sale
binil muthu: 250k fresh yahoo acccounts are ready for sale, Please let me know if anyone need this
binil muthu: Jesus is not in tomb, He is risen (Matthew 28:6,Mark 16:6), and he said “Go into all the world and preach the Gospel to every creature”(Mark 16:15). Let us preach the Gospel to every creature to fulfill his word to make his second comming soon, May god bless you more in this Easter day, Wish you a happy Easter to you, Thanks Bi

We are a offshore outsourcing company from India, We are expert in bulk Yahoo/Gmail/Hotmail accounts creations, Also we do bulk captcha entry, We are ready to handle all types of data related works, See our services here and let me know the services you needhttp://iamforworld.googlepages.com/brown.htm
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Duplicate posts bother me

Posted on April 12, 2008 by Nick

<rant>

I subscribe to a number of different blogs, most of them internet marketing related.  Something that really bothers me is when one internet marketer posts on their blog and then all of the other one’s have to follow.

The one I recently caught is when Webmastertalk and that other place merged together.  Like 4 of the blogs I read had to go and post pretty much the same thing.  I’ve seen it once already, I don’t think I need to see it again1!1

</rant>

Hope everyone has a good weekend, talk to you guys soon.

Nick

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EK+IT+AO=IR –> Formula For Adsense Excellence

Posted on April 10, 2008 by Nick

I know I mentioned a few times that I was working on something pretty big that I couldn’t wait to show you guys.  Well, today is the day!  Me and my man Stewart McKay just opened our pride and joy Adsense Excellence to the public.

Basically the site is meant to teach and help others make tons of money using Google Adsense.  There are a vast amount of tutorials and a bunch of other stuff to help you learn the ropes.  The hope is that you’ll learn many things you never thought you would, the best part is that it’s all FREE.

One of the other features I am proud of is that soon we will be handing out 10 quality Adsense Templates each month to the subscribers of our Upgraded program (which I think is only going to be $20/month).  Mind you these won’t be the crappy cookie cutter templates you get from other places.  These are going to be 100% unique and custom from any other site, fully coded and ready to go.

Anyway, as you can probably tell I am pretty excited, so i’ll just let you check it out for your self.

http://www.adsenseexcellence.com

Good Luck,
Nick

P.S. Sorry for sounding like a sales page :)

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