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Places to find great, free WordPress themes

In the interest of finding the best option for a prospective WordPress website owner,  I feel it’s only fair to cover free WordPress themes in addition to touting Austin Themes’ web design services.  There are dozens of great websites out

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Now offering WordPress custom post types

Let Austin Themes set up your WordPress site to present almost any data type (IE, “products”, “books”, “produce”, “groceries”, “to-do list”, etc) . Read More Share/Bookmark

Posted in Austin Themes News, Designing Wordpress Themes, Using Wordpress, Wordpress Themes, Wordpress Tips and Tricks

Unique custom WordPress theme example : TheSketchBox.com

  This personal project, a resource for information about underground home construction and examples, serves as a  unique demonstration of my WordPress and PHP skills. TheSketchBox.com is based on the “WallBase” theme, available from the WordPress.org repository. I’ve heavily modified

Posted in Austin Themes News, Designing Wordpress Themes, Google SketchUp, Uncategorized, Using Wordpress, Wordpress, Wordpress Tips and Tricks

Now offering Resposive child themes for WordPress

I will now be offering Responsive, Mobile-Ready wordpress child themes based off the Responsive framework. Let Austin Themes create your custom mobile wordpress theme, that changes based on the size of the user’s screen – creating a unique experience across

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7 steps for finding the best design style for your custom website

It’s a blank slate and a crayon dilemna. Finding the best design for your website can be a high-pressure choice of thousands of different layouts, color schemes, and design elements. Adding to that pressure is the need for consistency in

Posted in Designing Wordpress Themes, For designers, graphics design, Uncategorized

Choosing your new wordpress theme

Faced with the vast variety of the free and premium wordpress themes out there, many people hesitate to really look for their own actual design and just go with one of the (still-great) wordpress themes in the wordpress extend theme

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WordPress 3.3 Launched! Sonny is on the loose..

Although it may not come as a shock exactly, WordPress 3.3 (CodeName: “Sonny”)  has been unleashed by WordPress.org! The new back-end design of WordPress 3.3 features a variety of UI improvements that really put it more in line with the

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Moving your All-In-One SEO settings and content to Genesis on another site

Faced with a page-by-page manual migration of my old All-in-One SEO keywords and descriptions, I started to look for solutions for moving my All-in-One SEO data to the Genesis theme framework. With a little plugin exploration, most sources pointed to

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Free Genesis Child theme – Alpha Aero

A free wordpress child theme for the Genesis framework. Featuring a rounded nav bar and an abstract light blue background pattern. Download: installable ZIP package (74k) Live Demo: Live demo at AustinThemes.com Note – This child theme requires the Genesis

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HTML 5 and the new wave of themes

So what does HTML 5 have in store for theme designers? Well, a lot, but a lot that will be familiar. Really, it mainly compiles a variety of things into one great package, without having to use javascript to do

Posted in CSS Tips and Tricks, CubeCart Skins, For designers, Wordpress Themes, Zen Cart Themes