tripwire magazine

OK I have to admit that I started tripwire magazine on the Joomla CMS platform. I did so because I had experience with Joomla and really found it to be an excellent and very flexible free tool for publishing content online. I did realize though at that time that Wordpress simply had better themes for starting a magazine style blog. Also Wordpress is much simpler and efficient for creating posts fast and have better support for tags and categories. So I decided to move from Joomla to Wordpress quite early and I still think it was the right choice. Joomla should not be underestimated though and must be on the list of candidate tools if you plan to build a new website. One of the premium theme developers that I remember well from working with Joomla is RocketTheme. The quality of the Joomla themes created by RocketTheme is amazing and I just realized the same is true for their Wordpress themes. This post gives an overview of RocketThemes latest development for Wordpress.

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Magazine Style blogs have become quite popular because they are excellent for providing a lot of information in a structured and easy to digest way. With good magazine themes Wordpress is turned into a quite powerful publishing monster making one man capable of running an entire professional looking online magazine. This post gives you an overview of more than 50 of the best magazine style themes for Wordpress. Take a look and pick one to get your Online Magazine started.

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WP Remix has certainly positioned itself as one the most customizable and feature-rich Wordpress themes available. Unlike the majority of premium Wordpress Themes WP Remix is not aimed primarily at blogging but offers a wide selection of building blocks turning Wordpress into a CMS for building enterprise class websites. WP Remix lets you pick and choose what you want from the available building blocks and allows you to design your pages using it’s custom layout editor and more than 50 predefined page themes.

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There are thousands of free themes for Wordpress in any color, structure etc. you may like. Still there is a growing industry for selling premium themes for wordpress and one may wonder why… Basically if you are serious about your blog/magazine or your business and you consider to use Wordpress to improve your on-line presence then premium themes may be worth considering. The price on premium themes is normally quite low (20-150$) but in most cases you will need to make some customizations to avoid that your sites look and feel is identical with other sites using the same theme. Premium themes are usually build with customization in mind and if you’re not a experienced PHP and Wordpress developer yourself the support and customization options offered with premium themes may be your life line. This post provides a list og 11 new Wordpress Themes all released in January 2010.

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OK there are really many free themes for Wordpress available for download, maybe too many! There are also many sites devoted mainly to providing easy access to free Wordpress themes and it is a bit hard to know how many of the sites with hundreds or even thousands of themes overlap. I would believe  a lot of the free themes available for Wordpress show up on multiple sites. On the other hand I did a few random checks and I didn’t find a lot of themes being published in multiple places. Really the number of free themes for Wordpress is growing rapidly and we are probably above 4000 themes. With numbers being this high the problem is not finding a theme but rather finding a good quality theme.  This post provides a comprehensive list of sites that are mainly focussed on hosting themes for Wordpress and you may use it as a one stop place to find a good free theme for Wordpress.

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Most bloggers will probably agree that Wordpress is an excellent choice for blogging. When it comes to showcasing creative work by designers, photographers etc. it turns out that Wordpress has great potential as well. Today a lot of creative professionals have realised this an use Wordpress as the engine for building an on-line reputation. The ease of use of Wordpress, the high number of portfolio style themes and plugins available for building a professional portfolio web site makes the decision easy. This article provides a list of more than 45 magnificent portfolio themes for Wordpress and will help you get started. Not all the themes for Wordpress is free but you can find great themes that wont cost anything. Still the premium themes sometimes comes with features that makes your life a bit easier and allow you to focus on your business and creative work.

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Blog designs certainly can by complex, colourful and overwhelming and many free themes for Wordpress belongs to that category. Some bloggers on the other hand prefer simple and clean layouts for their blog leaving more space for the text itself to be in focus. If you should go for a minimalistic theme is really up to you to decide but if you’re considering this post will give you the inspiration needed and may help you find the theme you are looking for.

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Wordpress is popular for many reasons but I honestly think the main driver for Wordpress it the endless availability of both free and premium Themes. What makes Wordpress unique I think is that a lot of great web designers use it for their own portfolios and blogs. It is not mainly used by coding geeks and focussing more on technicalities that look and feel. Having loads of designers on board that further find it extremely easy to then implement complex and detailed designs in Wordpress have put Wordpress in a position where the many themes available have a unbelievable high quality and most of them are free. Biggest challenge is to find the right theme in the endless supply… This post gives you an overview of some of the best free Themes out there! Im planning to add more themes so make sure you bookmark and come back later!

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This post pick up on the previous two parts of a very detailed tutorial for “Creating a Clean and Elegant Blog Design with Photoshop, Part 1 + 2“. This is part3 and it will be covering last steps required to finish the design by adding the Side Bar and Footer Sections. We pick up just where part 2 ended and the result of part 3 and final Blog Design will be looking like this:

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This post pick up on the previous and first part of a very detailed tutorial for Creating a Clean and Elegant Blog Design with Photoshop, Part 1. This is part 2 and it will be covering steps required in Photoshop to create the Blog Front Page Post Section.

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