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Walken on Water

Posted by Chris at 8:03 AM on July 19th, 2010

1 in 8 people do not have access to clean, safe drinking water.

Frankly, I consider that unacceptable.

Now’s the time to change things. I’ve teamed up with good friends Yaron Schoen, Rogie King, and my Services Director at Lift, Brad Miller (aka Christopher Walken) to bring you the very first Dribbble community drive for charity:water.

We’re giving away over 25 Dribbble invites in a raffle that aims to raise $5,000 to build a well for communities that don’t have access to clean drinking water.

Help us Out

So far, we’ve raised over $800 over the weekend and have no doubt you’re going to help us get all the way to our $5,000 goal within the next week or two. Getting involved is so easy. Here are your options:

  1. If you have a Dribbble account, post a comment or “like” the dribbble shot.
  2. Retweet the campaign.
  3. Write a blog post with a link to the campaign.

There is a time for everything, and a season for every activity under heaven.

Ecclesiastes 3:1

Aperturious

Posted by Chris at 10:22 AM on November 3rd, 2009

aperturious

Aperturious is a flexible, highly-configurable, gorgeous WordPress theme with the ability to choose between 3 unique designs and 3 different layouts!

Learn More and Purchase

Three Awesomely Designed Color Schemes

It may be tough to choose, but this theme comes with three color schemes to choose from, two light and one dark themes.

Three Layout Options

Choose between a left sidebar, right sidebar or no sidebar for a Tumblr-style blog.

Video-Ready with Simple Video Embedder

Simply install the amazing Simple Video Embedder plugin from Press75.com and you’re ready to post videos that look great.

Built-in Ad Zones

There are also a number of built-in ad zones in addition to the ability to drop in ad widgets into one of the two widget-ready zones.

Old School

Posted by Chris at 7:08 PM on October 7th, 2009

Old School WordPress Theme

Old School is a grungy, flexible, beautiful, magazine-style WordPress theme with lots of options and ad zones, making it easy to build a blog from scratch!

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Homepage Slider

By selecting a category in your Old School Theme Options, you can set items to rotate as featured on the homepage, which are automatically cropped to fit the 980×240 image area.

Single Post Lead-In Image

In addition to the homepage slider image, you can also reference a lead-in image for each post.

Built-in Ad Spots

This theme allows for drop-in ad HTML viewable in the following locations: above content, below content, above sidebar, and above footer.

Gallery Pro

Posted by Chris at 10:20 AM on August 19th, 2009

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Introducing the newest member of the Gallery family, Gallery Pro is two themes in one! This is a highly upgraded version of the popular Gallery theme with two color schemes and endless options for your blog, gallery, or portfolio! Gallery pro includes the original dark color scheme along with a brand new light-colored theme! (more…)

DesignFolio+, The Ultimate WordPress Portfolio Theme

Posted by Chris at 7:02 AM on June 22nd, 2009

DesignFolio Plus is a beautiful and highly customizable portfolio theme great for displaying logos, websites, print work and much more.

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Gallery, a Thematic Child Theme

Posted by Chris at 4:00 AM on May 4th, 2009

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IMPORTANT: Upgrading from earlier versions of Gallery requires removal of /gallery/ theme folder due to removal of page templates in prior versions of Gallery.
IMPORTANT: Gallery 1.2 only works with Thematic 0.9.5. Make sure to download and upgrade to Thematic 0.9.5 first.

Gallery is a beautiful showcase-style WordPress theme built on the Thematic framework as a child theme.

Download Gallery 1.2.1
Download Thematic 0.9.5+

Live Demo

Widescreen Video Embedding with Simple Video Embedder Plugin


Thanks to Jason Schuller’s easy-to-implement video embedding plugin, Gallery now supports video embedding from popular video sites like YouTube and Vimeo, even allowing you to add your own custom code if not supported. This is an awesome addition to Gallery and I even created a new icon for posts with video so you can differentiate between regular posts and video posts. You will want to download Simple Video Embedder from Press75.com to take advantage of this beautiful plugin. I believe it is also available from WordPress.org, so you can install this via the WordPress admin, just search for the title and off you go.

Theme Options

The theme options page currently allows modification of the number of days a post is considered “new.” This is currently the only option, but will be expanded upon in future releases.