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New Redesign of my Blog

I am very happy to announce that I’ve finally finished my new WordPress theme for this site. I’ve been working on it on-and-off for the past couple of weeks and it has been finalized. If you see any bugs or any weird hiccups, please let me know.

Blog Features:

  • Designed completely from scratch
  • Theme is Sandbox based, heavily modified, which is a great foundation or framework for a WordPress theme
  • 6 widget areas (1 side, 2 after post, 3 footer)

So, what do you think?

Updated My Portfolio

I just finished working on 2 projects and I thought I would be wise to list them in my portfolio page (check it out by clicking here!). I did 2 WordPress-based blogs, integrating their existing designs into a full-fledged WordPress theme. Also optimized the WP installations as well as configured/tweaked several plugins for SEO and Social Networking. The first one is the Clicker Blog, available at http://blog.clicker.tv. They haven’t launched yet so the don’t have any content as of yet. The second one I just finished is the blog for Indie Printing, available here http://blog.indieprinting.com. What do you think of the theme integration/designs?

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Started a New Website, part I

I’ve been working on a couple of web projects lately and I feel quite proud of them so far. I want to start actively blogging and producing content again, and perhaps monetizing (read: make money) when and if the sites attract enough traffic. The first one, which I started about a month ago, was finished last nigh t (or early morning shall I say?). I was adjusting the theme, learning about WordPress’s custom fields, and finally adding content. Without further ado, introducing:

Julian Present Trailers. I love movie trailers, I hate when I miss them when I go to the movies. The problem is that I haven’t found a cool site that showcases trailers for upcoming movies in a decent way. Sure, you can watch movie trailers on Youtube or on a movie’s dedicated website, but who wants to do that? So, go ahead, bookmark it and tell your friends.

In the next part of this post, I will go through the process of starting this new site step by step, from purchasing the domain, to setting up WordPress.

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Redesign Explained

As you can see if you are an old blog visitor, I’ve changed the appearance of things around here. This time, I didn’t create my own theme, I went the classic “buy a premium theme” route, and I’m quite happy with the results. My past experience with my creating my last two themes was very helpful; I learned a lot about the inner workings of WordPress, even though I didn’t create the theme completely from scratch, I went the Sandbox route (who starts any coding project now a days with out some sort of recycled code, anyway?).

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I’ve started a new blog…here’s how.

I did it. I bought a nice domain name (did I?), I set up WordPress and a new theme and I’ve setup a new blog for my girlfriend. She’s a behavior therapist that works with autistic children and I thought that the premise of a blog from the perspective of a therapist would be interesting. There is quite an extensive network of autism-related blogs out there, but most are from the perspective of the parents of autistic children. Check out the site at http://autismchronicles.com. After setting up the new blog, I thought that the documenting the whole process of starting a new blog would be interesting, so here goes.

1. Found a subject matter. I think this is the most important step for anyone planning on starting out a new blog. I’ve seen many blogs out there without a defined subject matter, which I guess isn’t wrong, (more…)

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