If you’re bored of the plain old white Gmail background, then one option is to use the Better Gmail Firefox extension which added a few themes.
Gmail now comes with several different skins that you can use to beautify your inbox. In a quote from their blog post:
We wanted to go beyond simple color customization, so [...]
Have been thinking of redesigning Techtites, which has pretty much maintained the same template since its launch.
I’ve been keeping my eye out for any good theme that I could use as a base. The search was complete when I came across Amazing Grace theme by Vladimir Prelovac.
The theme is extremely beautiful, as you can see [...]
Useful WordPress Tricks takes a look at a few tips for WordPress Theme developers.
It is a lot pain installing any theme or plugin in your WordPress, logging in your FTp, uploading the file etc takes a lot of time and your net usage. But now a solution is here. Anirudh Sanjeev from Thoughts Outflux is here with an amazing plugin called OneClick.
OneClick makes it a lot easy to [...]
Continue reading about WordPress Wednesday: Install themes and plugins in a click with OneClick
CSS (Cascading Style Sheets), a very effective thing for a site / blog these days. They give you the chance to be completely consistent with the look and feel of your pages, while giving you much more control over the layout and design than straight HTML ever did.
The speed of your site also depends on [...]
Continue reading about Tool Tuesday: Optimize your CSS with CleanCSS
People using Google Personalized Homepage would be well aware that you can add pages, read feeds and lots of other stuff.
Recently the folks at Google introduced a brand new feature to make your homepage look even better, viz. Themes.
Currently there are seven themes that you can select from besides the original default one.
There is one [...]
I always wondered how Mark had those small yellow posts over at Weblog Tools Collection. It was only after a while that I realized that they are what are called Asides.
Asides as the name goes is something aside your normal content. I use the asides to link to to posts on which I don’t want [...]
Continue reading about WordPress Wednesday: Implementing Asides in 3 Steps
Over at Weblog Tools Collection, I’ve written some Tips for Theme Authors.
Few points that I have covered are:
The importance of having a theme page to distribute your theme
The importance of having individual posts about the theme
Effectively using the Theme Viewer
Explaining the contents of your theme to the users
These are ofcourse to be considered in addition [...]
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Ever since I launched the blog a week back I kept thinking about a look for it. Stumbled across David Herreman’s GreyWorld, which is a template for SNews.
Wrote to him for permission to port the same to WordPress, which he promptly gave.
Porting designs into WordPress isn’t has simple as I expected, however with practice [...]
