Themes

Theme update for the site

July 11, 2007

There are thousands of WordPress themes available out there;every now and then I stumble on amazing themes which I would love to use for my site. The only thing keeping me off from doing this regularly is the effort required in modifying/customizing the theme. I have made another theme change (4th) and this time I [...]

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FlyakiteOSX – Get a Mac Look and feel on XP

January 31, 2007

Some time back I patched the Windows Uxtheme.dll and installed a nice looking theme called BlackMesa. I got bored with that theme and decided to install a Mac theme. A search for the same lead me to a software called FlyakiteOSX. FlyakiteOSX is not just a theme, its a complete transformation pack (30 MB download) [...]

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Switching to a minimalistic theme – 281

January 13, 2007

I switched from K2 theme to Freshy some time back and though the theme looked nice, there were quite a few problems with the Freshy Theme. Too many images in the theme (including bullets etc) made the page load very slow. A part of it is also because of the hosting speed (GoDaddy) The theme [...]

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Windows XP Themes

January 5, 2007

Windows XP has the ability to use “Visual Styles” to change the user interface. However, visual styles must be cryptographically signed by Microsoft to run. Many people are stuck with the default Luna theme that ships with Windows XP. Energy Blue was another theme officially approved by Microsoft and was a welcome change. The only [...]

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New look and feel !

October 15, 2006

Since I wrote this post , I have been constantly searching for a good 3 column wordpress theme. I found a few good themes, however when I compared them with the K2 theme, something was always missing ! Today I have finally upgraded to a new theme called Freshy. Thanks to Thilak for finding out [...]

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3 Column Theme for WordPress

September 5, 2006

I was contemplating on a shift to a 3 column layout for quite some time now. With a current 2 column layout, it does become a little difficult to accommodate content. With a single sidebar, any new block of content will just make the sidebar bigger and bigger and there is no way the visitors [...]

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WordPress – Plugins/Themes

August 31, 2006

WordPress, the publishing software which runs this blog as well, is powerful because of 2 things You can add additional functionality in the form of plugins. You can change the look and feel of the blog just by a click and the changes are applied instantly. Plugins BlogJoint has compiled a list of Top WordPress [...]

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