Custom WordPress Theme Design

I often get thank you’s from custom WordPress development clients, and even sometimes testimonials, but Steve Congdon from Thunderclap Consulting Group took it to a whole other level. I received the box of sparkling wine, thank you.

You, good sir, have style.

Brent Rangen sent me this today:

When it comes to custom wordpress designs, JTk is the way to go. James does an outstanding job at exceeding my expectations every time and doing so in a timely manner. I have used JTk designs on my last three sites and plan to continue to do so for all my designs in the future.

Thanks Brent – you are awesome to work with too.

I am having server issues this morning, I may have missing email, etc – too early to tell what is going on yet. Don’t be afraid to email me again – or google chat thisisjtk@gmail.com

Usually I post about completed Custom WordPress theme’s and the happy clients that commissioned them, but today I have to share some of the feedback I have gotten from clients about design’s that I have sent out of the past couple of weeks:

Brent Rangen had this to say about the design for his WordPress project:

Wow!! My only thought is that I should be having you do all of my sites! Very clean look, nice layout, and last but not least – right on time! Thanks so much! Incredible James. You are very talented.

Steve over at hathead had this to say about the design I sent him:
Love it – I love the layout and overall look. Slam dunk. Rock and roll……very, very well done.

Ben, from the upcoming lifeinsuranceguarantee.com, said this about the new design for his site:

The template looks amazing. Damn, you do good work! It looks better than I was imagining in my head. I had some doubts to be sure, mainly because design or even assisting in critique is not my forte’. But you came through. You gave life to my stick figures! Thanks again, it looks GREAT.

I worked on this custom WordPress solution for an awesome client over in the UK named Matt – and this is what he had to say about working with me:

“I’d like to thank James for all of his help whilst transitioning one of our clients website to the Wordpress platform. Because of our client’s existing template design we needed any changes to the site to be invisible to the installed user base. Our client had won awards for the look of their site so not impacting the overall look and feel was of paramount importance. James was given an initial brief and delivered everything and more, offering us constant consultative advice throughout the process.

I’d recommend James to anyone considering Wordpress as a platform, being based in the UK we found that the geographical distance had no negative impact on the working relationship and James services were dramatically less than some UK based companies offering comparable services. Thank you once again James and we look forward to working with you shortly.

Kind regards Matt Edwards

You are more then welcome Matt, good clients make good projects easy

I have been very fortunate to have been able to work with a number of really good clients on their custom WordPress themes over the past couple of weeks. Here are some comments from a couple of them:

Gary Marcoccia over at AvantLink.com says:
Looks great thanks for all your help! We’ll certainly keep you in mind for future projects, or refer anyone who needs a custom theme.

Ian over at houseofbaby.co.uk says:
It’s looking very good, so many thanks for building so quickly for me, great job and thanks once again.

You guys are very welcome, it was a pleasure. If you are interested in getting in touch with me and discussing your WordPress based project just drop me a line

Hey Now, there has been allot of renewed interest in the free domain hosting that I offer with custom WordPress theme design, so I thought that I would post to outline the deal. If you hire me to create a custom WordPress theme for you I will host your site gratis on the same server that hosts my site for one year. If within that year you have me do any updates, mods, etc. I will continue to host it gratis for another year and if not I charge a very reasonable $48 a year.

The hosting includes email, web hosting, mysql, WordPress install, etc. – all the trappings of modern web hosting including an easy to use control panel so that you can manage your domain. Have any other questions? Want to get started? Just click on over to the contact page and get in touch.

Hey Now (iko, iko) the other night when I was sitting around and thinking about the cro, I decided to whip up a design that illustrated what I was thinking about, so I came up with this Acadiana wallpaper that I am using as my background. I decided to upload it and set if free in case anyone else was in a Louisiana state of mind….

Paul, over at KnowSEO is one of my latest clients and he was great to work with. This is what he had to say about working with me:

Thanks James for the great work you did on my custom wordpress theme. I’ve worked with a few freelance designers over the years and it’s not often I’ve found one that I will use again.

Here are the main reasons that I’ll use James again: He did a good clean design. He set a timeline and stuck to it. He always responded to emails promptly. He offered an opinion on mock changes I wanted but also accepted my changes. He gladly and promptly made small alterations after launch.

All pretty simple things, but hard to find in one designer.

Thanks again. Paul

Thank you Paul, it is awesome when everyone is happy at the end of a project!

Hey Now, have you ever wanted to integrate a forum with your custom WordPress theme? I have gotten pretty good at integrating BBPress into custom wordpress themes with a single sign on and theming BBPress to look like an existing custom theme.

Soooo…. If you are looking to integrate a forum into your wordpress theme, get in touch with me and I’ll hook you up.