The last time we had a look at PaulStamatiou.com’s Customizing K2 series, it was at Part 3, on Social Bookmarking. The series has been expanded since then with Parts 4 and 5.
Part 4 talks about K2 sidebars, 3-column layouts and image maps, while Part 5 concerns load time optimization. Although Part 4 is very much […]

Over the past few months, we’ve heard of two WordPress theme competitons, one legitimate (at least for now) and another deemed a fraud.
Now, Movable Type comes into the spotlight with an official theme competition - i.e. sponsored by Six Apart (MT’s creators) - aptly named as The Style Contest, which boasts a US$17,000 prize […]

While results have yet to be announced for the very first WordPress 2.0 Theme Competition, another one is already in progress. Over at wordpressarena.com, a new competition has started with a few prizes and categories already in place.
Although the organizers are still looking for more sponsors in order to expand the number of competition categories […]

Unlike many other Content Management Systems (CMS) - whether blog-specific or not - Drupal has a very comprehensive section of its official website dedicated to themes. But, besides the obvious reason of Drupal having a very strong developer community, this is possible only because there are a manageable number of publicly available Drupal themes - […]

A WordPress 2.0 Theme Design Competition recently started (15th Jan) over at kcyap.com. The competition will end on the 28th of February - which should be enough time for aspiring winners to prepare new themes or polish original themes that they already have on hand.
Prizes are sufficiently lucrative, with more than enough categories to […]

Template creation can be a messy business, especially for the initial structure and framework. In fact, customization of base templates through CSS editing can be equally irritating for those uncomfortable (or just too lazy) to do it by hand.
Luckily, there are template generation (or rather just CSS generation) scripts out there, for blog softwares […]

Sometimes, minimalism can be taken a bit far. So far, in fact, that it becomes difficult to add Adsense to the blog. Maybe it’s just me, but I like having separate channels for my ads on the index page and those in post - even if the ad sizes are similar. To me, it’s pretty […]