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Blogs can be an inspiration to try many new things: not least, modern coding and table-free design. This site is intended to help you deal with these and other challenges facing today's commercial webmasters.

Create a Theme #4 (final)

This is the final article in the “Create a Theme” series. In it we check out the sub-pages of the blog and tidy up any loose odds and ends. Once these final tweaks are done, your new blog will be ready to launch!

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Create a Theme #1

The first in a series of articles working through creating a babelog-style WordPress theme from scratch. It starts with a basic set of templates and a near empty stylesheet and this first article covers choosing a setting the background color and header image.

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Deep Purple Theme

The “Deep Purple” theme is an attempt to move away a little from traditional blog layout while retaining its functionality. It is also a flexible design which automatically adjusts to the visitors’ screen resolutions, but restrained between 770 pixels and 900 pixels so that it never squashes or stretches to the point of being spoiled.

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Black Red Theme

“Black Red” is an atmospheric theme ideal for several kinds of sites, especially for those with a fetish flavor. It is a fixed-width design available in 3-column and 2-column versions. Although a text-based header is recommended for search-engine appeal, it is simple to use a graphic header instead.

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Olives: a Free WordPress Theme

“Olives” is a FREE WordPress theme, a 3-column, fluid design which will shrink and expand according to screen resolution. It is coded in validated, strict XHTML and has been tested in Explorer and Firefox. Suitable for many purposes, the header image (and indeed all the styling) is easily changed.

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