misty eyed

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 ...

result!

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 ...

Just Like a Real Coder

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 ...

Garland: A Chronology in Point Form

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 ...

Templates vs. Design

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 ...