Free WordPress Theme: Slider

• Author: elynn
• Filed under: Free Wordpress Themes
• Date: Mar 6,2007

I love new WordPress themes – especially free ones. But let’s be honest, here; many of them look exactly alike. A quick three column SEO template on a white background, or maybe for variety two columns on a black background – so I’m in an especially good mood when I get something, well, different.

The free wordpress theme Slider from KarmaDude is exactly that. First, I’m diggin on the color – a rich, lush chocolate brown which I just don’t think you see enough of when it comes to web pages. The ‘sliding action’ as each block is drawn via javascript is nicely done – interesting without falling into the ‘annoying’ trap. Everything looks lovely whether viewed in Firefox or IE and in general it’s the type of theme I’d like to see a lot more of.

My only complaint is a minor one – obviously if I have javascript turned off, there are issues. I can’t browse the blog any longer, or open the menus, or well, anything – which although a minor complaint I think is still valid. After all, there are some folks who surf with javascript off to slow down the flood of popups, so a site like this would be best served if it degraded gracefully when javascript is not present.

All in all, though, this is a minor complaint. If you haven’t already downloaded it for your library, you won’t be disappointed. You can view the demo for slider here, or download it directly here.

WordPress 2.1.1 urgent upgrade

• Author: elynn
• Filed under: Wordpress News
• Date: Mar 4,2007

If you downloaded WordPress 2.1.1 in the last few days, it is urgent that you upgrade your installation immediately. It now appears that unauthorized access to the wordpress.org servers was gained by a hacker and malicious code inserted into the WordPress 2.1.1 download files.

If you downloaded these files in the last few days, you are strongly urged to download the fix, version 2.1.2 from the download page.

Read the full article here.

WOW, that’s a lot of free WordPress Themes!

• Author: elynn
• Filed under: Free Wordpress Themes
• Date: Dec 10,2006

If you haven’t seen this site yet, you’re in for a treat… I’ve stopped by several times and had just a fantastic time picking out new and interesting themes for my sites. When it comes to WordPress themes, I’m a bit of a shopaholic – I always have dozens in my closet but nothing to wear!

Anyway, if you have a moment, I encourage you to stop by and check this site out – it’s got a lot of themes and updates frequently. Enjoy!

ThemeViewer

** Edit ** – If you haven’t already applied to be able to upload themes to ThemeViewer, do consider sharing your work with the community – it helps everyone!