As I’m sure some of you have noticed, there is a brand new theme up at Leland.info. I used the Simply Minimal template designed by insicdesigns and ported it to WordPress.
Less emphasis is being placed on the blog with more being placed on social networks such as Twitter, as evidenced by the homepage template. I also plan on releasing a portfolio here with some of my work. For the sidebars, I used a little widget goodness with some techiniques discussed in my article at Smashing Magazine: 5 Useful And Creative Ways To Use WordPress Widgets.
Finally, is this a WordPress theme you might be interested in? I’m not sure of the licensing of the template so I’d have to check with insicdesigns to see if it would be okay to release over at Theme Lab. The theme still needs some work, but I’m just trying to gauge interest here.
SitePoint recently announced that they would be phasing out the website and domain sales sections of the SitePoint marketplace and move them over to a new site, Flippa.
The SitePoint marketplace is (or was) widely regarded as the premiere place to buy and sell websites on the internet. It is frequented by many big buyers, and subsequently, many big sellers.
So why does it seem like they’re shooting themselves in the foot by moving it over to a “brand spanking new” site? I don’t know, but here’s why it’s a bad idea…
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Okay, I bought/built three new sites in the past week. I figured I’d just combine all these into one post.
The first two sites are ones that I bought from Eric Sizemore (aka SecondVersion). I got a pretty good deal on them.
Domain Cleaner – This is just a simple tool that will take a lot of jumbled text, and extract a nicely formatted list of domain names from it. It’s an extremely useful tool if you’re scanning domains for availability and can’t get a clean list. I’ve used it a lot in the past so when I saw the opportunity to buy the actual site, I took it.
RSS2JS – This is another pretty cool web-based tool that will take any RSS feed and convert is to a Javascript snippet, which can then be placed on a website and then styled with CSS.
The third site is one that I created myself.
Themelets – This is a site where I can showcase all the WordPress child themes and theme frameworks I come across. At the moment, I don’t think child themes are allowed to be listed in the official WordPress Theme Directory, so I guess this also fills a hole in the WordPress child theme sub-niche.
Yeah, I know the last post on this blog was in August of 2008, which was nearly a year ago. I got bored today so decided to update this blog for all you loyal subscribers out there, all eight of you (you know who you are).
This wasn’t the only blog that I left dormant. My other (much more popular) blog, Theme Lab, was also void of any updates for several months. I recently revived it and picked up where I left off. I think I’m pretty lucky to have amassed such a loyal group of subscribers.
So anyway, here’s what I’ve done today to the blog here at Leland.info:
- Upgraded to WordPress 2.7.1
- Upgraded a number of plugins (pretty easy nowadays)
- Changed the theme from Monochromatic to this
- Added a nice widgetized footer
That’s about it. I may update this blog in the future, I may not. I don’t really know as I don’t keep track of it much.
I have a lot of experience in coding good old fashioned WordPress themes, but I’ve never really delved into the prospect of working with “child” themes.
After reading countless blog posts by Justin Tadlock and Ian Stewart about how great WordPress child themes are, I decided to give it a shot. Read the rest of this entry…