Allright, maybe not your mom, but one day my mom was doing her etsy thing and she read an article that was talking about how blogs can be an excellent marketing vehicle to get more people interested in your auctions and etsy sales.
I think this prompted her to get interested in what exactly I did for a living 
My mom sells a ton of stuff on ebay and etsy and has her own store here on the square in our little town, and now she wants a blog – and knows at least that I do something for a living that has something to do with that word.
So one night I went over and gave her the 30 minute WordPress tutorial and she caught on rather quickly and started writing some pretty good content. She was being very patient but I could tell that she wanted the custom theme that I had promised her done because she was so excited about WordPress.
So even though I am very busy creating custom WordPress themes for paying clients, I worked her theme in – I think it turned out well.
Yes, the time has come, I am selling roxorblog as my professional life is changing and running an entertainment blog is not something that I can do at the moment and instead of letting it go I figured I would try and find a loving home for it.
Roxor Blog – http://www.roxorblog.com is for sale.
This is an established WordPress powered blog that has a Google Page Rank of 4 and a kick-butt original design. The winner of this auction will get the domain name, a second domain name with an alternative (leet) spelling, the original WordPress theme ( a $500 value ) and all the content in the blog.
You can pick up right where I have left off and run your own entertainment blog without having to start from scratch – all the hard start up work has been done for you.
One of the nice things about Roxor Blog is that you can collect a bunch of free swag from folks that want you to review their CD’s and DVD’s. View the Auction here.
Turns out I don’t have time to take on any new work for a while, so unless we have already spoken about a project I won’t be able to take on any new jobs. I hate to turn away work but I have some catching up to do as well as some interesting longer terms projects in the hopper that need my full attention.
The only other alternative I have to to hire some folks to work with me and I have had varying sucsess with that in the past…
So, when I am available for hire again I’ll post and let you know. And if you are a kick ass css / xhtml monkey that is looking for some work let me know and we can at least discuss it.
Recently I have been doing allot of clones jobs, that is, creating WordPress themes that try and visually emulate existing sites. In these cases I have been creating these new WordPress themes for the owners of the existing sites so there are no ethical issues…
Most of the time the original sites are done with old school tables so I don’t have the option of using the original html files. The existing css files vary greatly in their usefulness. So, what I generally do is recreate the most important parts of the site in Photoshop so that I have all uncompressed graphics for the main areas and cut that up for the headers, repeaters, footers, etc. and make a basic xhtml document form that.
My philosophy is that I am not trying to recreate the original site exactly, I am trying to make it 90% similar and bloggify it with the other 10%. Here’s an example:
Original Site . My Blogified, Cloned WordPress Theme
This WordPress Theme is about 90% done as I post this…
All right then, I have decided to try and raise a few bucks to help me create my next free WordPress theme. I see it as sort of like a number of folks all ponying up a few buck a piece to commission a new, cool, standards complaint WordPress theme.
I like releasing the free themes, but as my little family grows and life occurs it is harder and harder to spend time in front of the computer except for working on paying clients sites. So I decided to split the cost of the next freebie theme – I am trying to raise half the cost of what I charge for a custom theme for my clients.
I have created over 65 WordPress themes and as my experience increases so do the quality of my themes, so I am confident that I will be providing the WordPress community something of value with this new theme.
The chip in system makes it easy to use your PayPal account or a credit card to contribute as much or as little to this project as you would like and it has the added benefit of being vetted by a third party. Everyone that contributes over $5 and wants a thank you link will get one.
Just use the Chip In widget on the top of the left hand sidebar to get started.
Nicholas left me a comment the other day and pointed out that I had neglected to include a fairly important component from the Black Kryptonite WordPress theme.
This oversight has been corrected and now you can get Black Kryptonite 1.1
Why do simillar seeming tasks either take 15 mintues or half a day?
task one
very much like task 2
one: 15 mintues.
two: half a day?
I’m just asking.
On January 11 in Memphis, many of the more than 6,000 bloggers, YouTubers, Politicians, musicians, celebrities, activists and citizens who form the core of SavetheInternet.com Coalition will come together on the eve of the National Conference for Media Reform in Memphis.
They’ve booked the Gibson Guitar Factory from 9 p.m. until closing. They’ll be a DJ, booze and dancing. We’ll be projecting dozens of videos created by YouTube activists throughout the year.
