Mrs. Mecomber's Scrapbook

It’s spring. As is my *usual* custom, I’m in the process of organizing my blog themes, weeding out extraneous stuff, and going with a new look for many of them. I purchased a few themes from Woo Themes last year (Fresh News and Busy Bee), and have been very impressed with the quality. Moreover, when [...]

Believe it or not (!!), I’ve started up some new blogs! So I spent quite a few hours looking over my options. I checked out Drupal, Joomla, and b2evolution platforms for possible choices… but Drupal was difficult to manage and had very limited choices. Joomla looked too complex, and b2evolution was too plain. So I [...]

Surprise, surprise! Imagine my delight when shopping Theme Forest to see themes moderately priced! The themes there are very high quality, too. I’ve been generally dissatisfied with the “free” themes out there recently. Many are junk, many require Page Rank-sucking footer links, and others have small annoying quirks that bug me (like the sidebar loading [...]

As much as I would just love to keep this to myself (I like to have these things for my own resource), I HAVE GOT to tell you of a stunning collection of WordPress themes. I am awed. I am definitely going to use one of these– the problem is, which one! The site is [...]

In my searching for some new themes for my blogs, I came across a a terrific tutorial about how to create your own WordPress blog! It’s How To Create Themes From Scratch. The tutorial is done by Kailoon, whose art and design I’ve admired recently. He has written a very comprehensive tutorial (he is self-taught [...]

I am on the hunt, once again, for the “perfect” WordPress theme for my Renovator blog. The current theme, while beautiful and colorful, is a little bulky and I sometimes get CPU exceeded errors from it. Sigh. I have been on a major, major quest for some good themes. The thing that always attracted me [...]