In an attempt to improve the user-friendliness of my themes I have set up a video tutorials section in the member’s area. Here I will be adding tutorials to help members set up/use my themes. I have started the section off with a collection of basic installation instructions, however, I hope to add more advanced tutorials in the future as well. This section will be updated frequently with the questions that pop up most frequently in the forums,...

I have started some preliminary work on a new theme. I am calling it eBusiness because it is going to be my first page-based layout, which will cater to business sites rather than blogs. There will still be a blog component of course, and it certainly isn’t a business-specific design. This is only the first Photoshop sketch, so things are likely to change, but it will definitely give you an idea as to the direction I am going with the layout...

1. Theme-Wide SEO Improvements The major change this round is updated SEO for all themes. I have gone through and made sure that all pages and posts now use an H1 tag for the title. I have also used headings for all post titles on index/archive/category pages. Second of all I have changed the way meta titles are created, making them more direct and therefore better optimized for your keywords. All post meta titles will now be structured “Your...

For those of you who celebrate Christmas, I hope you had a pleasant holiday. I have been enjoying a few days of great food and family time, but I have also done some preliminary work on a new design. I know that this isn’t going to be everyone’s cup of tea, and maybe some of you are tried of purple, but I guess I still need to get it out of my system! This is a fairly “flashy” design, much more so than usual – it must...

A new theme is in this works, entitled ColdStone. This design is the first of what I hope to be many collaboration pieces. It is the combined effort of me and Alex Stubbs. It should be ready soon, but in the meantime, here is a teaser: I hope everyone is doing well, and for those who celebrate it, happy Thanksgiving