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Me, Murphy And 31DBBB!

I can’t believe it is Tuesday and nearly at the end of the month. I must admit I am starting to feel like I am getting on top of my workload. I probably have taken on more than I should but it makes life interesting. Although, all being well and if Murphy hadn’t stepped in, things would have not backed up. I had it all planned……

While I am behind in the 31DBBB, that’s the 31 Days to Building A Better Blog, I’m finding it excellent. Instead of just posting whatever, I now have some structure to follow. The blog that I am using, not this one, is one that I had waiting to build, not sure just what I was going to do with it or how I was going to use it so 31DBBB is just the thing.

The tasks for the first and second days, by the time I had finished those, the structure for the blog was right in front of me, mind you, it took me a little while for the ‘light bulb’ to flash on. Main thing is, that it did.

Some of the tasks have been challenging and have taken me out of my comfort zone, that’s a good thing…..afterwards that is. I’ve still a little way to catch up but now that that fellow Murphy has gone, then catch up is on the menu.

If you didn’t get onto this at the start of April then don’t fret, you can still do it. Sign up here and you will get an email each day with your tasks and the link to read the task in detail.

If you blog about anything or want to blog about something then now is your chance to start out right, I highly recommend it.

I said to someone earlier today, free is not always ‘free’ often times it gets very expensive. 31DBBB is the exact opposite, this free is so much value it’s priceless.

So do the Nike thing and Just Do It!

Cheers and take care

Carmel

Posted in Tutorials

Not Desperate But Definitely Dateless WordPress Themes Good Ones!

To get a basic Worpress theme, one that is not too fancy, and that you can tweak to suit how you want your site to look, can take some finding.

I think when you are using WordPress as your personal blogging platform then having a date for each post can be a good thing.

However if you are using the WP platform for a niche site, one that you don’t want “to date”, then having a theme without any dates keeps the site looking fresh and the content up to ‘date’ so to speak.

Well, if you want to go this way I have found for you not one but seven themes without dates, definitely not desperate and dateless, just beautifully dateless. No more going into the codes and removing the date codes from all the places the coder has put it.

The themes are stripped down to the bare bones, so they are good basic sites to build on. You can add your own header if you wish but the theme will pick up the site title and description for you.

These are nice clean sites and won’t distract the visitor with lots of fancy bits and pieces, you add what you want them to see. You can add your own images etc as per usual and WP 2.7 makes that easier too.

There is another plugin for adding images etc, but I’ll leave that for another day.

Okay! Better tell you where you can get these great themes, here is the link Dateless Themes
Scroll down the sidebar, the link to download the seven themes is towards the bottom.

Also while you are there, check out the Theme Switcher in the menu at the top, you will be able to see all the different themes right there. As I said, nice clean sites.

They are all widget ready too, so your sidebar can be exactly what you want it to be too.

Take care

Cheers

Carmel

Posted in Wordpress