Thank you for everyone who participated in the ThemeFuse WordPress theme giveaway. Below are the three winners of the same. Aakarshan Theme: NEWSSETTER devnullius Theme: Envision Gio Theme: Envison ThemeFuse will be contacting you shortly with the details on how to receive your theme.
Last week, I pointed you towards Constellation, which is an HTML5 based starter theme for WordPress. Another similar bare bones theme that you can use as your starter is called Bones. Bones is also HTML5 starter theme that is powered by HTML5 Boilerplate.
A few weeks back we highlighted a cool plugin to help you code your own. The WordPress repository has a tonne of themes available for you to download. However, if you’re looking to create your very own theme you’re better off starting with Constellation.
Gmail introduced themes back in 2008. Since then there have been several enhancements including the addition of HD images. Taking this yet another step further, Google announced that you can now create custom themes in Gmail.
Mashable came out with a list today of 20 Great Free WordPress 2.7 Themes. And, I’m glad that my theme Connections Reloaded has been featured in this list.
While WordPress plugins are really useful, you don’t need plugins always to add certain features to your themes. Here are a few code snippets you can add to your theme files to display recent posts, random posts and recent comments. Recent Posts The following code will enclose the latest 10 posts in an unordered list.
A Firefox user? Are you still running the default theme or have you decked your browser this season? Here are a three themes to make your Firefox browser all ready for the Christmas season.
By default Microsoft Word 2007 comes with a blue color scheme. However, Word 2007 also comes inbuilt with two separate themes, viz. Silver and Black.
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 out of the 30 odd themes we’re launching today, there’s a shiny theme with chrome styling, another one that turns your inbox into a retro notepad, nature themes that change scenery over time, weather driven themes that can rain on your mailbox, and fun characters to keep you in good company.
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.
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.
Come Halloween and Netvibes is ready with a brand new Halloween Theme. This one is very different from the other themes that Netvibes has because this is the first dark theme they have. Though there is a dark background one wise thing is that the modules still have a white background with black text making it easy to read.
