Archive for the ‘Site Updates’ Category

Akismet vs. Hotpop

A brief history: A few years back, when I got my iBook, I looked for a free POP3 mail service, so I can check out Apple Mail, So I registered for a free account with Hotpop. It was horrible, sometimes it takes days to receive a message. After a short while, Gmail was announced, so [...]


Gravatars Killing Comments?

I’ve noticed that ever since changing hosts, the comments on this site take ages to load. It was so bad that even I didn’t read the comments on this site through the posts, Instead I read them through the WordPress admin. I salute all you brave people that left comments on this site, waiting [...]


ThemesPress.com

Ok, After doing custom WordPress themes for a while, and about two months of working on this project, today I launched ThemesPress.com, An automated WordPress theme generator. All you need is a HTML/CSS design, and a few minutes, and you’ve got a fully functional WordPress theme, priced at only $10, which is pretty reasonably priced, [...]


Updated all public WP themes

I just finished updating all my public WordPress themes I Fixed all the errors, browser bugs and display issues, plus, I widgetized them all, so they now work with the widgets plugin.
Sadly enough, I had to remove the amazing Nautica 2.2 theme, because of copyright issues with the original html theme, hopefully it wil get [...]


Some Site Statistics

Some time ago, I signed up to Google Analytics, the other night I checked my site’s statistics, and here is what I found:
General Statistics
Browsers
Thats always the most interesting thing, which browsers do your visitors use? here are the stats for this site: So, the majority of this site’s visitors (50.33%) have chosen FireFox, next is [...]


Now using windows friendly ZIP’s

Thanks to CleanArchiver, I updated the WP theme ZIP downloads and now they are windows friendly. meaning, they don’t Include any of the hidden files included in the folder on my mac, so when unzipping on windows, you don’t see lots of files you shouldn’t be seeing.


New WordPress themes page

I just added a page for WordPress themes I make, so far I’ve got No Probs and Greenery. I’m currently working on Leaves and my own X Blog (with some cool new additions and features).
Visit my WP themes page here: /web/wpthemes/


Upgraded to WP 2

After testing WordPress 2.0 on my test server, (my iBook ) I upgraded this site to WordPress 2. while playing around with it, I tweaked the theme’s code a bit, and now a few things, like the sidebar, forward/backward links and a few more have a smoother look. while I was at it, [...]


Happy Chanukah & Updates

Have a Happy Chanukah, or whatever…
Some Updates

X-Blog theme – Well, I’ve been working on a Port, and it’s 90% done, but the problem is that i get tired of it very fast, so I was thinking of maybe changing the theme every month. but on the other hand, a site should keep the same design [...]


X Blog?

I’m thinking about moving this sites template to the X Blog design, which I designed and posted at OSWD.org (actually now openwebdesign.org), even though I love the design of this site (hey, I wouldn’t use it if I didn’t like it…) I was looking at it the other day with the full quality images [...]


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