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WordPress Theme Design Contest

Nov/29 in Web Hosting

Lunarpages has just launched one heck of a cool contest that anybody can appreciate.

Lunarpages is having a WordPress Theme Contest!! All you need to do is design a unique WordPress Theme and upload it to our site for the chance to win! Just about anybody (with a few exceptions) can participate in the contest and the prizes are amazing!

What are the prizes?

First Prize is $1,000 cash and 5 years free hosting on our Basic Plan

Second Prize is 3 years free hosting + $300 cash

Third Prize is 1 year free hosting + $100 cash

Along with their logo design contest – things are really starting to get creative and fun over at Lunarpages. Oh yeah, might be worth mentioning they are one heck of a good web host too!

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Why Learning CSS is Good for You

Nov/16 in Web Development Tutorials

Everybody and their grandmother have at least seen one of those semi-anoying Apple “Why I switched” advertisements before. It usually shows some drab person standing in front of a pale background blabbering on about why PC’s sucked till they found the joy of Apple computers.Well, I recently switched, but it wasn’t from my trusty HP Pavilion to a Mac, oh no. I recently jumped into the world of Cascading Style Sheets, or better known as CSS.

Do not get me wrong, I have been working with HTML codding for the past five or six years. Doing each layout on each page manually, calling up the font colors sizes and text over and over again became tedious at best.

The bad thing about plain old HTML codding is that you end up with really large file sizes for your web pages. Larger file sizes lead to slower download times, which leads to unhappy visitors for your web site. Learning about CSS will help you reduce the clutter.

To start, lets define CSS. A Cascading Style Sheet is a string of data or code that sits internally or externally on your server that will tell your pages how to format certain parts of your website. Continue Reading →

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Simpblue – Free WordPress Theme!

Nov/05 in Web Development Tutorials

Update: Test Drive Simpblue at WPThemesFree.com!

My weekend project this week was to finally sit down and create my own original WordPress theme. Here are the results…

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Hope it is something you can all enjoy and get something out of. I wanted to create a theme that would both look good by itself but could also easily be customizable too. I think Simpblue does both of those jobs very well.

+ Download the Simpblue WordPress Theme! (.zip)

Only thing that I ask is that you keep my design credit (and link) at the bottom in one way, shape or form.

As this is my very first WordPress theme that I have created I would appreciate any feedback you have. Feel free to leave a comment or drop me an e-mail at mitch@mitchkeeler.com. Happy blogging!

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Give Your Folders Backgrounds – Windowpaper XP

Sep/24 in Desktop, Desktop Apps

Sure, it might not be a feature you have always dreamed of having – but adding wallpaper to folders on your desktop machine sounds like a pretty neat way to customize your PC using experience to me.

Backgrounds for Windows in XP

Windowpaper XP is a freeware program that will allow you to get that one Windows 98 customization feature that just seems to have gone to the wayside. The ability to change the wallpaper of a folder as well as the text color of the icons in that folder. Continue Reading →

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Plantation Bliss

Sep/18 in Desktop

Always love finding the awesome wallpaper out there – and you can toss this one into my selection of the best wallpaper out there today. Hunted down via DeviantArt – how could you look at this and not say it is cool?

Plantation Wallpaper

While your at it, check out the artist in question and some of his other works too. Lots of stuff there to love!

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Mitchelaneous’s New Skin

Sep/15 in Personal

Change is good every so often, right? I have just finished doing some spring late summer cleaning on Mitchelaneous. Just mainly wanted to give things a new look for the next few months and clean up some of the crap on the layout I wasn’t really that excited about anymore.

New Mitchelaneous Skin

So what do you think? Like it? Hate it? Seems like I am cleaning up a web project a week! Last week I did the Web Hosting Show, this week it was Mitchelaneous – next week to be Firefox Facts?

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Twitterfy Your WordPress Layout

Jul/07 in Web Development Tutorials

Twitterfy Your WordPress LayoutLike the look and feel of Twitter?

Go get your own twitterfied layout for WordPress and impress your twittering friends. Then again, do you really want to be watching your friends twitter?

I think I might have said too much. :)

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Bullet Madness – Free Graphics

Jul/04 in Web Development Tutorials

Bullet MadnessFinding yourself in need of some fancy new bullets to make your web page really stand out from the rest? When it comes to lists, we have all see the little black circles (otherwise known as the dots of doom) for way too long. Refresh your own lists and pick up some free bullet images for your web site or project.

You have the choices of small, small and dull, and or (for the dynamic web designer) small and colorful. Check out the full list of them and be sure to thank the folks if you do use their images.

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Free Mini Icons for Webmasters

Jun/15 in Web Development Tutorials

Free Mini IconsNeed to spruce up your web site with a nicer graphical interface? Now you could hunt for an icon designer or do it yourself – but why do that work when I have something I found that you can use for free.

The Mini Pixel Icon collection is an awesome group (Over 320!) of icons that would look perfect on any web site out there today. Of course, if you wish to use – you must follow the creator’s rules:

  • You may NOT resell or distribute these icons.
  • If you use more than 10 icons on your site or software, you must post a link back to www.ndesign-studio.com. If you do not want to post a link back, please read the license information below.

Not a big price to pay, you should be giving credit where credit is due anyways. If you really want to use them link free – check out the license information. You can do so for around $30.

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Create a Web 2.0 Layout

May/29 in Web Development Tutorials

Feel like your not keeping up with the times?

Web 2.0 Layout

Generate the Web 2.0 layout of your dreams! Want a generator that promises to make you look like some of the top dogs out there in the Web 2.0 fight? Well I can’t promise you any venture capital – but I can give you a link to get a Web site to make it look like every rich guy with a check book it handing you money.

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