Do you cover your eyes, use the vertical scroll on your mouse and just click something randomly?   How about skim through www.wordpress.org until a color scheme jumps out at you?  Or scour the internet to find the perfect theme, and hope and pray it doesn’t cost an arm and a leg?  Whether you use [...]

There are two ways to have a front page, and you need to be aware of which method your theme uses, so you don’t wreck it!
We use StudioPress themes for a number of Premium Professional WordPress Designs.  And sometimes we just add the templates ourselves, depending on the theme set up.  What we do with [...]

How to Create a Landing Page AKA a Static Home Page in WordPress self-hosted blogs.

This cheat sheet is for any custom design based on StudioPress themes.
The Featured Content Gallery(FCG)
- this is the slideshow that is across the home page.
1.  To get an image to show up in the Featured Content Gallery:

create a new post with title, text (if desired), and images (if desired, not necessary)
upload the picture for the [...]

Updated for WordPress 2.8:
I had an interesting question from a client last night, wondering how come her gorgeous sidebars disappeared when she put widgets in them. Here’s the scoop:
Sidebars: Most of the time, the theme you are using gives you two options. First, you can just leave the sidebars without widgets and [...]

Just this month, I’ve discovered some great themes.  These are just the ones that I’ve run across – there are countless others as well.  These are FREE, and can be customized by following the instructions.  Most are customizable right from your admin panels in the back end of your blog.
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The first one is another template [...]