As you can see I have changed my theme for my blog.  Well unless of course you only read my blog via RSS…yes all 14 of you!  I am really happy with the look of this new theme with some minor changes.  I had to do a couple of CSS tweaks to fix some issues I noticed as well as changing the header logo to my next car, the reason I am in school, the Audi A5.  I also made some tweaks to the templates to allow the Ajax plugin to work correctly and all seems well.  Overall I am very happy with this template and looking around TopWPThemes website they have a ton of very nice easily modifiable layouts, so I am adding them to the list of templates.  I was also very happy to see that my blogroll from Google looks pretty good with the new layout.

I am trying to keep up with my blogging but lately it has been a little rough running into the end of the semester along with spring it is tough to find time to contribute.  I have a lot in my backlog so you can expect an occasional flooding of new information.

This post has some great links to some very nice WordPress themes, and since I am always wanting to update my site you can never have too many places to choose from!

Top 100 Word Press Themes

Looks like phpBB3 is finally out of beta today and ready for production.  I have been running this all semester for my classes and had no issues and updated all the way through the development process.  Its super easy to use and has a nice clean interface and easy to manage.  My only qualm is the lack of RSS feeds from the forum but I can survive without that.  I have come across a website that has free Templates for you to use instead of the default one (phpBB3Styles).  With some minor modifications it now more closely resembles my blog template.  Amazing what software you can get for free these days.  This was a super easy repository to use for school and very helpful for keeping all teammates on the same page as to where the project is.  Also provides an easy medium to share documents and keep everyone on the same version.

I love when people do the research for me.  In one of my blogs I found HackWordPress.com the following entry that he lists out what he believes to be the best WordPress themes out there.  Of course that’s an objective point of view but never hurts to read what other people have written

Well you can never have too many WordPress themes to select from.  So lets add this one to the list.  This site takes the Digg approach to rating themes so people can vote on their favorite.  I am a big fan of the one I have now specially because I have customized it a little but its always good to know what is out there.  I am interested to see the redesign of the admin-pages that is scheduled for 2.4 release in January.

So now there is no excuse to have an ugly out of date website these days.  So its time to re-do your 1990’s web layout and do something nice with some CSS work and of course rounded corners! You cannot have a website anymore without rounded corners!  This is in addition to a previous post that I have from July of a site that offers free website templates to get you going.  The one I posted in July is the one I used to create my landing page.  It is amazing the free resources that are out there for you to build good looking web sites. 

This website is great for free wordpress themes and is super easy to navigate. Wordpress Themes

Here are some open source web page templates.