misty eyed

26 Feb 2007 – 10:35
By adam | Posted in blogging, design | Also tagged | Comments (5)

with two themes in as many days, wp.com managed to grab a theme from a long-standing member of the wordpress theme community. i'm impressed, that's getting to be a rare thing. i think i might have actually sent in feedback asking for mistylook. or at ...

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result!

21 Feb 2007 – 1:37
By adam | Posted in Asides, blogging | Also tagged | Comments (3)

lorelle's latest challenge precludes you from using your own name, but not the names of your posts. that would be too easy, though, so i dug in my stats a bit, and suddenly wondered why one of my custom CSS templates was so much more popular than ...

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Just Like a Real Coder

31 Jan 2007 – 2:32
By adam | Posted in blogging | Also tagged | Comments (0)

In my attempts to not be one of those idiots, i've not only updated disconnected to include a version update notification script, i've also created a project for it on sourceforge. i know all the cool themes ...

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Garland: A Chronology in Point Form

13 Dec 2006 – 8:37
By adam | Posted in blogging | Also tagged | Comments (12)

wordpress.com releases custom CSS as a paid upgrade
forseeing themes with options becoming rarer on wordpress.com, (they might detract from custom CSS sales), i suggest that an alternative upgrade to custom CSS could be the addition of themes that ...

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Templates vs. Design

12 Jul 2006 – 5:19
By adam | Posted in blogging, design | Also tagged | Comments (5)

further musing on the licensing and rationale behind making templates, via coyote's post:

i'm now really bugged by pro-bloggers complaining about the lack of templates. if you're blogging for money, you should expect to need to hire a designer.  despite the shaky-at-best legality of canvas' non-comercial license, it ...

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