How To Create Themes In WordPress

If you have a blog, you have a theme… You want your blog to say “YOU”, but you don’t want to pay a designer a ton of money to accomplish this… Artisteer ($49.99) makes it simple for you to create and customize your own WordPress theme with just a few clicks of the mouse.

The Mac version is in beta testing; there is a trial version for Windows.

Post first appeared at com495 course blog.

 

A Note On The Sarah Lacey Session

I just read the cNet article on Sarah Lacey’s session at Gnomedex Saturday. Ugh. Here’s my comment:

Even the cNet article misses a key point: “blogger” is a meaningless phrase, as it rests solely on the technology. A person on LiveJournal writing for her friends is a “blogger” — so are my students who use WordPress to complete university assignments. So is a journalist — citizen or paid — who uses a blogging platform for publishing.

“Blogger” is a so-what term. Continue reading