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Wordpress Theme Sale

As many of you know, I’m trying to expand my web design portfolio at the moment.

I’m working on some pretty heavy Rails stuff and it’s nice to have a break and do some more creative work, so here’s the idea:

I’m going to start selling my services as a “Wordpress themer”, I’ve done quite a few of them now and I’m confident and knowledgeable in how the theme works and what is required.

Firstly pricing: £100 … It’s as simple as that.

What do you get for your money?

A bespoke Wordpress theme made to your custom specifications, exactly as you want it. If you have a design in mind then I can turn your ideas into a theme, or if your not sure what you want I can draw from sites and influences that you like to create the theme.

Once completed and tested, it will take between two and three days to complete, I’ll help you deploy it to your blog and set everything up properly with a collection of the best plugins as well if you wish.

I will then handover the copyright to you. That’s right, you will be the only one in the world with that theme, something which could cost you upwards of £1000 from a big design agency.

If you have any other questions or want to purchase a theme then you can contact me via the form below:

Or add me to any of the following services:

• MSN: nez0nline@hotmail.com
• Gtalk: Andrewnez@gmail.com
• Skype: Fishbitt

If your interested in hiring me for any other kind of web design work then jump over to my “Hire Me“ page were there are more details on my other services available as well as my current portfolio.

A Rough Week

It’s been a whole week since I failed my driving test and lost someone very close to me. It certainly has not been an easy week either.

My mood and motivation have been up and down like an atomic Yo-Yo.

I’ve tried to take my mind of things by pouring all of my energy into web development.

I was under the impression that I hadn’t done a huge amount of anything this week but now that I look back at, it has actually been pretty productive…

• I’ve designed and created AndrewOnRails.com from scratch, and then posted a useful article every day and created a pretty useful resources page too.
• Teabass has been completely revised, all the pages have been improved, tweaked and customized the theme and doing loads of posts as well.
• Done the Rapnix.com theme, again completely from scratch, including the best method of IE6 PNG fixes I’ve done yet (what a pain in the ass that was!!), it still needs a couple like tweaks but I think Rappy is very happy with it, I’m just becoming a bit of a perfectionist with websites, I want everything to look just right.
• I’ve also put Fishbitt.com back on my todo list. Using Wordpress as a CMS, I’ve made a very minimal theme and I’m slowly filling pages with content. The Fishbitt logo is in the final stages of design, I’m 90% sure it will be finished next week, and is looking pretty damn awesome!

  There are a lot of pages on Fishbitt that you can’t see at the moment, I think I’m up to about 17, but there is not much point in publicizing them until the whole site is nearing completion.

And the list goes on..

• I’ve also been working on a paid project, unfortunatly I can’t really talk about it much, I’m doing it on Ruby on Rails, which has not been as easy has I hoped.

  I’ll explain more over at AndrewOnRails later this eve, the gist being that because Rails has only been around for 2 years, the documentation is a little sparse in places.

  Being almost completely new to web programming there are a few important things that I feel the core Ruby on Rails team seem to consider common knowledge when writing their books, which has often left me struggling to work out the step the glossed over leading to many an hour of confusion and frustration.

• FrostyIvan.co.uk is on the too, although I have not done much more than transfer the hosting and install wordpress. It’s going to be a tumblelog for my great friend Mike.
• Another paid project I’ve started is Canaryflights.net, I’ve thrown up a quick holding page today, there is not going to be anything much interesting there for good couple of months tho.
• And yesterday I signed back up to myspace… myspace.com/andrewonrails

Uugh, I known.. shocking isn’t it

Despite my constant workload I still can’t keep my mind off last week, I’ve been feeling pretty low which is terrible for my motivation.

Some harmless flirting should help to build up my self confidence and help me forget about the gapping whole in my life, at least for a while.

I’ve slowly been building up a profile on a single Div overlay, it’s looking ok, at least until I can think of something cool to do with it.

And despite all that work I still want more!!

Want a custom Wordpress theme?
Send me an email

More details on that tomorrow

Open Source Help

I’m building up a web page of Open Source software as a reference source.

Something that will be useful for both Geeks and non-geeks alike.

I’m not trying to make something like the FSF Directory (FSF/UNESCO Free Software Directory), but more of a collection of the best and most useful Open Source programs.

Stuff like Firefox, Thunderbird and OpenOffice. Programs that can be used as a free replacement for similar paid software, in some cases as an improvement like Firefox.

I want to try and make the presence of these free programs known to more people outside of the “tech” circle, so they don’t have to spend out money on crappy software in PC world, which usually causes more problems that the free stuff..

I’m talking about YOU, Norton Antivirus and Internet Explorer 6!!

So anyway:

1000th Flickr Photo

Today marks my 1000th Flickr photo, I knew it was coming so I made sure I put something good there!

The Reason for the photo?

After playing Day of Defeat: Source this morning and having quite a lot of abuse hurled at me by a rather clueless player, I thought this photo was apt.

I don’t want to toot my own trumpet too much, but I’m getting pretty good at DoD and I’ve kinda reached a level where I get regularly called a cheat and a n00b because I’m doing much better than some of the other players on the server.

This used to be more of a Counter Strike thing, I never really noticed it too much in DoD, the community was nice and friendly and everyone respected the pro’s rather than hurling abuse at them.

But I fear that after the flurry of “Free DoD Weekends” many counter strike players have started to play DoD regularly and so the good community begins to fall away.

But enough moaning!

I’m working on a couple websites at the moment, as well as moving LaurenF.net onto Rails, I should have a tumblelog theme to add to my portfolio within a couple days.