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Ok, maybe I DO spend too much time in Photoshop.  I think all you other Photoshop Pros will find this just as funny as I did.

And yes, he’s actually got some good advice for you noobs out there!

Free WordPress Theme screen shot image - Tropical Flowers and Sand.

Continuing on the laid back Florida type thinking we have another great free theme to give away!  This one comes in 4 variations.  A one column version and a two column version with both being available for WordPress or as a plain HTML version.

If you have an interest in a Joomla, DotNetNuke or Drupal version of the theme and if even one person asks for it (just enter a comment below), we’ll port this theme to the the CMS they ask for. In the last two years we’ve just seen the demand for Drupal, Joomla and especially DotNetNuke  (which there never was much for to begin with) services drop to nothing.  At the same time we’re seeing demand for our favorite, WordPress and even custom web application, services climb.

About this theme.  Like we said there are four versions total, a one and a two column theme for WordPress and plain HTML.  Refer back to this page for support if it’s needed.  But as with our other free themes, they are pretty straight forward and thoroughly tested.

Read the rest of this post  for download link,  copyright info, and support.

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Today we announce a new theme. This one isn’t just a WordPress Theme, it’s also been ported form many other content management systems and even a plain HTML/CSS version.

Simple and clean, the Desert Sage Theme has two columns, has a fixed width of 1000 pixels and has clean color scheme of light browns. It has a Search Engine friendly text Headline and Tag line space in the header.

• Drupal
• Joomla
• HTML
• DotNetNuke

Support, download and preview links after the fold below:
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As web designers it’s important to see how your web sites and Applications will look on multiple platforms.  I recently developed a mobile web app and none of my previous mobile device preview tools included the brand new I Pad.    Well here’s one. It’s called IPad Peek.

I like to show this blog to people as an example of what can be done by a WordPress blog by themselves and what the next level of word press blogs is. That’s when a pro web design team gets involved in your internet marketing project.

For a while we’re going to illustrate this with a rotation of WordPress themes.

We’ll also give a quick first impression review (feel free to comment) on the theme and come back later and update our thoughts after we’ve seen them in use by the public.

We start the WordPress themes rotation with:
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Not exactly the way I’d do it but he introduces many important topics. This video also demonstrates how to use the Dreamweaver CS3 interface to create CSS rules.

Sadly he was wrong about the “Page Properties” they only apply to the page that’s open, not “every page that we create from now on” so odd that he got such a basic piece of info wrong . . . We try to actually put these CSS style rules that he’s creating in a separate ” style sheet (a text file, written with proper css syntax and uses the .css extension). Once this is done you can go to every page you have or create anew and tell the page to use the style sheet.

On a professional scale we use “Dynamic Web Templates” to force pages to use certian style sheets and accept changes made to a master template. Because there’s so much more to a web site than it’s CSS.