I’m working on my first-ever WordPress theme to sell (actually, I’m working on two of them at the same time, cuz I’m a glutton for NOT focusing) and as I work, I’m finding that I’m Googling a lot. I have yet to find a comprehensive resource geared towards people who want to sell themes and I’m holding myself back from starting yet another website (ha!) so instead I decided to start documenting what I’m...

So just now, I upgraded the last of my properties to the latest WordPress release, 3.3.1. I usually wait to do the most important one until after I’ve done all the others, to make sure that the one that brings in the dough doesn’t get killed by an errant upgrade. Usually I have nothing to worry about, as WordPress does such a fantastic job of upgrading smoothly with just one click, but every so often, well . . . Every so often,...

Just came across SaneBox today after reading about it on a friend’s blog, and I signed right up. A service that will make my disaster of an inbox sane? Yes please! I can’t speak to how well it works as it’s still “analyzing” so I haven’t actually used the thing yet, but that’s not what I want to talk about anyway. This post is about the design of the site and how it immediately won me over with its...

Stumbled across Create Worth and was literally WOWED by this landing/squeeze page. It’s striking, informative, has a perfect call-to-action, and it looks beautiful to boot. One of my favorite parts of it is the “No thanks! Go to Homepage” link — too many signup forms like this don’t include the option to get out of the page but still see the site content and that drives me nuts! Of course the reason for not giving...