Archive for July, 2009

What madness makes an Ads Theme?

What madness drives a person to create a WordPress Adsense Theme? To create a new one totally from scratch for public release is an undertaking not for the faint hearted or the time poor. I guess thats why out of the multi-millions of WP users there are only (at the time of writing) 900 free GPL themes on the directory. That may sound like a lot, but when you go looking for ‘just the right blog theme’ you soon find that there isn’t quite the amount of choice that you imagined.

Yes, in most cases themes need to be prodded, poked and modded into something that resembles the thing you were imagining in the first place.
Enough already with the prodding…find out more…

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Posted by Stuart - July 22, 2009 at 10:57 am

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12 hours in the life of an Ads Theme

Like a cat our the proverbial Harry Houdini bag, HeatMap Ads Theme 2.1 was released onto the WP Theme directory. At the time of writing around 340 WP’ers have downloaded it, and from my referrer stats I can see lots of you have actually installed it, and some of you are even giving it a bit of a makeover with your own logos. Looking good people!
Find out more about the first few hours of HeatMap Theme’s life…

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Posted by Stuart - July 22, 2009 at 9:14 am

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Gone Fishing

Its a stressful world. Busy busy busy. Even when I’m working from Home there is still a ton of stress inducing things that need to be unwound from. Sometimes you’ve just gotta take time out.

I went fishing. It’s an old cliche I know. An oldie but a goodie, a time honoured recipe for relaxation, or so they say.

I’m actually not very good at fishing…

In fact if I actually caught a fish it would probably be a minor inconvenience that would get in the way of the Zen of fishing. If a fish were to be wriggling on the end of my hook then that would be more stress.

Then there’s the whole unhooking and killing of the poor thing. Not relaxing. Not to mention the ‘getting snagged’ in the rocks thing.
Will I ever get unsnagged and learn to relax? Find out…

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Posted by Stuart - July 21, 2009 at 3:22 pm

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