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WordPress, a web application that supports not just reverse chronological order articles, hierarchical pages, a WYSIWYG content editor with a working image/file uploader and embedder and tons of other features, sounds a little intimidating at first.  But the beauty of WordPress is that it’s easy to use.

Yes WordPress is powerful, secure, has tons of plug-ins and a huge user community.  But it also has it’s basics down.  If you are a basic level user it just doesn’t get much easier than this to work.  Other Content Management Systems (CMS) like Drupal, PhpNuke, Joomla will have even the fastest of learners pulling their hair out within a manner of days.  Don’t worry, it’s not you, it’s them.  WordPress is so widely customizable that it can do just about any job that they can.  But without the heartache that the others cause.

WordPress version 3,.0 has just been released.  This latest  version of WordPress has some exciting features for the more technically inclined.  It’s touting more features for those out there that aren’t.  The trouble is that some of these new features just make it easier for them to destroy their blog. 

There are also some disturbing things about this latest version for those of us “in the know”.  We aren’t going to speak more until we’ve confirmed some things.  But  we recommend holding off for just a little while until we (and the many tech writers out there) have had a few days to do some testing.

Look for the good, the bad and the ugly (if there is any) here.
UPDATE:
WordPress 3.0 is definitely safe enough. A word of caution, if you use the new “custom menu” feature however, your existing menu will be lost forever. If this happens to you, don’t worry we can fix it.
We recommend upgrading your blog to v 3.0

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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We’ve just released our first free WordPress Template! We hope you enjoy this theme celebrating the glory of femininity.  And yes, I’m a man, do I have issues?  No, it’s just a theme I made for client through a third party.  Besides what wrong with loving women, and why are you looking at me like that?  Ahem! I’m plenty manly thank you!

Sadly when you work through a third party extra care needs to be taken as things get lost in translation, like the fact that she didn’t want anything like this.  My wife says this theme is  pretty good so we’ll use it as part of our new WordPress theme marketing efforts.  I hope I haven’t made it too feminine.

Download the Feminine Glory WordPress Template here. Preview the theme here.

Free support for this free WordPress theme!  If you have a problem, please just leave a comment below (and we’re a “Do Follow” Blog).

This free template is released under the Creative Commons – Attribution license.  No cost to you for this theme.

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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