Chromand - Desiging, Developing, and Marketing for the Interwebs

If you ever want to design your own wordpress theme, you used to only have two options: open up a free theme like cutline or the default and start editing, or start coding from scratch. I always though coding from scratch was a real waste of time, since so much of the code is going to be the same in any WordPress theme. That’s why I created the WP Core theme. It’s been a handy tool for myself, and now I’m releasing it, and I hope it will be a help to all of you too.

In my previous post about the Options Wordpress Theme, I mentioned how I always thought Fret Feed would work better in a magazine-style format, and I was considering using Options as a basis for the re-design. Well, it’s been done. Now I’d like to talk a little a bit my thoughts & processes for the [...]

Developers and Designers have an old saying: “Don’t reinvent the wheel”. People shouldn’t waste their time re-coding things that have already been done. I toyed around with the idea of making a “Press++” theme for Wordpress, which would be a theme that would turn Wordpress into a more robust CMS, and add a lot of [...]

Magazine style looking blogs have been all the rage lately, and one of the best ways to enchance the look of your blog and give it this look is by adding thumbnails to your posts.  As you can see, I’ve added the functionality to this blog, and now I’ll show how you can make a [...]

Everyone who blogs talk about how much they want to get links to help them climb up the SERPs.  One way of doing this is by giving out links generously to other bloggers you like. Sometimes you get a link back.  If you don’t, it’s still good karma.

The main thing that made me want to move my site over to Wordpress was all the different plug-ins you can install. I’ve got a number of them running now, and I wanted to give you all a little insight into the ones I’m using, how they work, and what they do.