Today I'm celebrating as my first free Wordpress theme - Tumbled, has reached 200 downloads. Now 200 is not a massive amount, but it still amazes me when I see it being used. It was my first attempt at designing a public theme and seems to have worked surprisingly well....
125Cards.com is about design, style and how we can improve those lovely little 125 x 125 Adverts and Cards that we so love to place (drop) on other peoples websites. They are meant to advertise what we are selling, be it a product, service or even just ourselves. Yet, they...
The Landing Page or Squeeze Page as it is more commonly know, is seen by some as the most important part of any opt-in email or affiliate driven website. A typically Squeeze Page tries to entice its "target" audience with marketing and copywriting techniques such as headlines, bullet points, teaser...
Man, what is it with silly pictures of monkeys and numpties who like to hot-link images? I have just spent the last 2 hours sorting through my inbound links to this site trying to cross-reference genuine incoming inks against stupid hot-links. Bizarrely, the image that every numskull seems to want...
It has been one of those days for me today, I tried to write this morning, but kept finding myself being distracted by other things. When it happens it is damn hard to break out of it. If I catch myself free-falling early enough I can usually do something about...
This is my first Wordpress theme I have made publicly available, and it's not something I have had sitting around for ages either - I started it yesterday afternoon with the soul intention of making it purely for public release. So here goes, I would like to introduce you to...
Designing and editing websites and blogs can be much easier with the right tools. Here is a list of my top 5 website building tools: Smultron: A free text editor for the Mac which is both easy to use and powerful. It is designed to not confuse newcomers nor disappoint...
After yesterdays stats overdose, I'm back on track - well I'm only checking stats every two hours and feel I can get myself back to only checking them twice a day again by the end of the week... I hope! Anyway, just tweaked a few things here on Davinian: Removed...
There is nothing I enjoy more than getting my hands dirty with a little bit of custom Wordpress code. I've just finished sorting out this blog and have decided to dive right in again and redesign the theme for one of my other blogs Cryptoworld. Sucker for punishment? Why yes...
I think it is fair to say that I am constantly trying to find a better look and feel for my website - this must be the 100th + such theme change for Davinian, and I suspect it wont be the last!