Mrs. Mecomber’s Scrapbook

Soon my days of looking for Blogger templates will be over. But I do still have a few small blogs over there. I’m content with those templates. Since moving several blogs and websites onto Wordpress and using the Bluehost hosting service (of which I highly recommend), I’ve been scouring the Internet for applicable themes. These days, having a classy Wordpress theme is as valuable as owning Branson real estate! A smooth, readable blog in crucial if you want people to read your blog. Here’s a great batch of Wordpress themes I’ve found.

These themes have special .php files for those 125×125 widgets that is all the rage on blogs right now. (Scroll down, you’ll see that I have some). They are very convenient.

Also very popular are the “magazine” style themes. These require a little more knowledge with coding and Wordpress. They are not easily manageable if you are a “point and click” blogger. But the styles are beautiful.

And, if you are wanting to build your very own Wordpress theme, I’ve found a terrific tutorial here. This is a several part series and is well done.

If you discover any other themes out there, please leave a comment. I am always looking for more to add to my list of themes.

Here’s a cute little beta program I found! It’s the StumbleUpon Alerter, built by Adam at AdamAntSolutions. He’s an Australian blogger, and a stumbler, obviously. I’ve been trying out this little tool, and it’s pretty neat. It’s small and not terribly detailed. But I like it.

This program, which runs in your system tray, alerts you when someone has stumbled a blog post of yours. You have to manually submit your blog post. I noticed that you have to manually submit your url– every individual url that may be stumbled. This is the only negative feature. It would be far too laborious to enter in all my possible stumbled blog posts. I’d like a feature where you could just enter in the main domain url, and have it show you which posts on that domain were stumbled.

Still, I like the program. It’s small and nice, and helps me keep track of which friends have stumbled my latest magnus opus and help me weed out the non-friends who never stumble me. If you are a stumbler, or a stumble-e, check it out. It’s neater than sliced bread and Rolex Datejust!

P.S. Feel free to Stumble this post, heh heh.