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Free WordPress Templates Galore

It seems that no matter how much you write about free WordPress templates – choices infinitely expanding and new offers come in. And knowing the constant need of every blogger to “spruce it up” by modifying the look of their blog I want to offer a quick collections of great free WordPress themes I have found lately.

You decide if these themes fit your need or not but I liked them for one reason or another, although I didn’t test them. My need of customizing doesn’t stretch that far 8-) . Dig in!

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Flexibility – WordPress Design Made Simple

WordPress theme is what determines look and feel of your blog and finding that “unique look” can be quite difficult or quite expensive! Flexibility WordPress Theme has just changed the playing field. Quote:

Your blog is an extension of you. Your thoughts, your ideas, your creativity…

Flexibility Theme gives you the creative power to break free from the restrictions of other WordPress themes. Easily create a dynamic, eye-catching theme without needing any knowledge of the code that runs WordPress. Control almost every aspect of your blog and get CREATIVE!

Read more for details or visit the author…

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WordPress Guide – Installing Plugins And Themes

A feedback from one of my customers have prompted this article in WordPress Guide Series – Installing Plugins and Themes. The more we work with technology and get accustomed to the way thing work we stop realizing that many people come to WordPress without the knowledge we take for granted!

Installing Plugins and New Themes on your WordPress blog is one of the tasks that is considered the very basic and yet – concept is absolutely alien to many. This post will close the gap and cover in details everything you need to know about the process and ensure that you will not be left behind… so dig in!

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How To Safely Redesign Your Blog

With abundant choice of freely available themes for WordPress every blogger gets tempted to test a new look every once in while. I know I get the urge often enough so I decided to discuss the subject of how you can safely test new look and see if the theme you liked will fit your blog vision.

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WordPress 2.2 Theme Release – FH-Freedom-Reloaded

fh-reloaded1.jpgFH-Freedom-Reloaded is a re-work and modification of “FH Freedom blue 0.2” theme released by Frank Helmschrott. I was very impressed by the theme but have found that it was incompatible with WordPress 2.2 and widgets system integrated into new version. There was also an issue with many things being in German and some CSS issues.

To make story short – I have adopted the theme for one of my projects, fixed the functions to make it fully compatible with latest [tag-tec]WordPress[/tag-tec] release and modified columns layout and CSS styling to suit my needs. Unfortunately I have decided not to continue developing project it was intended for and since the theme is ready – I’m releasing it for your enjoyment.

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WordPress Web-Design for Web 2.0

Continuing with my personal saga of creating a web 2.0 website based on WordPress I decided I need to discuss perhaps the most important part – [tag-tec]web design[/tag-tec]. WordPress is one of the platforms that actually overwhelm you with number of choices when it comes to theme selection.

But if your goal to create a flashy web 2.0 portal using [tag-tec]Wordpress[/tag-tec] you might find yourself in a bind. The look and feel of your website is what creates first impression about you, about your site and will either make people stay on your site and read or click away instantly. And keep in mind – to present yourself as Web 2.0 portal you have to provide visitors with multitude of options to interact and contribute to content. Oh, yeah … and let’s not forget that you also wouldn’t mind to make some cash in process – would you now?

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