I was planning to release this free WordPress theme for a long time now. I stopped myself from doing it because of the changing trends. Nowadays, a lot of people are preferring magazine-styled themes, themes with super-duper slide shows, nifty effects and all that jazz!

But I am sure that there still exists a class of people who admire simple, minimalistic, and aesthetic themes. This was the sole reason of Blog Oh! Blog being famous in the first place. So, my new theme “Ultima” is dedicated to all those simple-minded bloggers and authors.

This is a soft-colored, rounded theme that totally aims at content and nothing else. This 2-column theme is all about the “complexity of simple things”… Enjoy!
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Tippy-tippy tap, what color you want?

This was a game that we used to play as children but Alas! Those days are long gone now. Well, the days might have long gone, but the spirit of playing with colors still resides within me. So, to mark this spirit, I announce my new Premium WordPress theme called “ColorPress“.

ColorPress is a theme that lets you play with color! Now, you will not be restricted to using a few color schemes provided by theme developers. You have all the world’s colors to apply to your theme! Just pick your color and magic happens! The whole theme changes colors (giving different shades to the background, links, menus, slideshow etc.) taking in account the one color that you provide by picking up from the color table. Isn’t that cool?

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Design studios, ad agencies and printing companies and, of course, web developers often make the decision to outsource their clients’ graphic design work.  The most common way to do this is to use freelance designers or third party design studios.  Often times, after making this decision, the actual outsourcing doesn’t go so well.  Typically, this difficulty can be linked back to one of two common problems (outlined below in more detail) with using freelance designers: availability and limited style.  These problematic experiences can end up making outsourcing more expensive and time-consuming than it’s worth.

Enter DesignCrowd.com’s graphic design outsourcing service.  This site attempts to solve the above problems by giving web designers/agencies the ability to use a big pool of designers (10,000+) collectively as their virtual team.  It is an innovative solution that appears to go a long way to fixing the challenges of design outsourcing.

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I am back from a Holiday to Kerala. They call it the “God’s Own Country” which is true in every sense!

Here are some pictures of the experience :-

While coding HTML pages, I have always wondered if there was a better, quicker and easier way to write lengthy and repetitive code that is present in almost every web page. I asked myself time and again, if there were people who thought on the same lines to make the code more crisp and abbreviated.

To my amusement, I recently came across an innovation by Sergey Chikuyonok called the “ZEN CODING“. Zen Coding provides a really fresh angle to write markup code for HTML & CSS. It was really interesting to read how Sergey gave a new definition to the old coding style and has created a landmark for software companies to follow.

To understand the basics, Zen Coding can be defined as a plugin to quicken coding. In layman terms, it can also be understood as a zip file that can be expanded or unzipped on demand. It is made up of two main components – one is the abbreviation expander and the other is the context-independent HTML-pair tag matcher.

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A very Happy New Year to all my readers!

For the new year, I am glad to announce the release of a new WordPress theme called “Impress”. This is a minimalistic, red-colored theme with automatic thumbnails, advertising space and a clean layout.

Thumbnails are used from the default ones that WordPress generates when you upload an image with the post. The theme uses jQuery for animated menu and sidebar. Impress has been tested with Firefox, IE, Chrome and Safari without any problems.
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I recently stumbled across a comic strip website called Thedoghousediaries.com. I really liked the stuff they had on there. Here are the good ones that I found. Enjoy and leave a comment!

Today, I have compiled a set of 10 CSS snippets that can save you a lot of time and effort. These codes are needed frequently when developing CSS-based websites or themes. Just bookmark these codes (Ctrl + D) so that you don’t have to look for them on the Internet every time.

1. CSS Tooltips

Through this code, you can have your own tooltips using just CSS. This is the CSS code :-

a:hover {background:#ffffff; text-decoration:none;} /*BG color is a must for IE6*/
a.tooltip span {display:none; padding:2px 3px; margin-left:8px; width:130px;}
a.tooltip:hover span{display:inline; position:absolute; background:#ffffff; border:1px solid #cccccc; color:#6c6c6c;}

Now, use the tooltips like this :-

Easy <a class="tooltip" href="#">Tooltip<span>This is the crazy little Easy Tooltip Text.</span></a>.

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LogoBee, one of the Internets most prominent online graphic design firms, is proud to resume its annual Logo Design Makeover for the fourth time. For a nominal price of $100, 10 selected nominees will get a complete Logo Design Golden Package (original value of $425). This package includes custom logo design, stationery design and 500 printed business cards. And that’s not all! The grand prize is a BundleBee Package. They are donating 2 BundleBee packages (logo design, stationery design and web design) for a nominal price of $500 (original value: $1199)! In the previous years, Logobee helped with the creation of a unique identity for 17 non-profit organizations. Seeing the results of one’s work is always a very pleasant experience. They got very positive feedback from these organizations. For instance, they helped the International Primate Protection League to refresh their website and magazine cover with the help of a brand new logo. LogoBee hopes that this year’s Makeover will be as successful as the previous years.
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