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Facelift Image Replacement for WordPress

Seriously, this is pretty sweet. I think I might have to play with it on my next site design. Learn more here!

Designing for WordPress Videos

A very nice, three-part series on designing a WordPress theme from scratch. He actually starts at downloading WordPress and resetting the theme. It’s a great place to start and get a big picture view of what will go into designing for WordPress.

View or download the series here!

Big News: Press75.com launches!

My favorite WordPress designer, Jason Schuller has created a new site dedicated to his premium WordPress themes. Not only are his themes the best around when it comes to video templates, his new site, Press75.com, is a very beautiful site as well. I love the clean look and have to admit, I’m very jealous of the domain name. I was born in ‘75 myself and wish I would’ve thought of that domain name for myself! ARG.

Good going Jason and congrats! I wish you all the success in the world as you place your name and themes into the Elite of WordPress theme designers.

Check out Press75.com today!

Create a WordPress Theme from Scratch, Pt.1

Kailoon from Themetation has put together an excellent walk though for creating a WordPress theme from scratch. The first part of the three part tutorial covers “Structuring, Designing in Photoshop“– and I’m sure you could use Fireworks as well. I would say that this first part is almost required reading for any designer out there as it really focuses on what’s important and, in my opinion, addresses visual weight really well.

Part two will cover “Slicing and Coding” and the final part (part three) will cover “WordPress Implementation”. If these last two tutorials are as detailed yet succinct as this first one, the entire design community is in for a real treat!
Read Part One: Structuring, Designing in Photoshop

Big News #2: WooThemes Launches

The amazing crew who brought you the Premium News theme has been hard at work creating a better brand presence for their themes. Looking to grow beyond the amazing Premium News theme (and it’s many flavors), Adii created a solid new site to kick off the adventure.

And that’s not all! If you visit now you’ll be able to enjoy two new themes to boot! ProudFolio and VibrantCMS are great themes with all the polish you’d expect from a new WordPress theme shop. You can purchase each theme separately or join their new “theme club”! With your subscription to the theme club you’ll get all their themes (including back catalog) while your membership is active! Great ideas guys!

So go give the site a spin and see what you think. I’m sure we’ll see some more excellent WordPress themes coming out of Woo Themes before the year is over.

Big News #1: WordPress Starter Theme Project

I’ve been searching the internets for a way to take my knowledge of HTML/CSS and design and add PHP to it and so far that’s been unsuccessful. I just don’t seem to have the time. So I’ve had to turn to Jason or others to help me make my designs a reality in WordPress skin.

Well, thanks to Dan Philibin at WPCandy.com, my prayers seemed to be answered! He’s released a bunch of files that should help the transition to, at least, grasping the WordPress structure a bit better as well as make the development process a bit smoother.

Check out the files here

Thanks Dan!

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