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Building an eCommerce Store? Don’t Forget Aspirational Intent

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November 11, 2013

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Come Shop with Me Imagine you’re there with me, stepping into the motorcycle store to take a look at all the incredible bikes. Imagine you can not only watch me peruse, but can hear the thoughts in my head. That’s the wish of every single online eCommerce store creator, right? To see what I do and to understand my decision-making. But we’ll get back to that in a second. Picking My First Motorcycle As I walk through the motorcycle store, you start to notice something. I’m only looking at, and considering, the big bikes. You know, the ones that look […]

Okay Themes: Back to the Basics

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November 7, 2013

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It’s Thursday yet again, and that means it’s time for #ThemeThursday! Carrying on from the last three weeks, we will look at a premium WordPress theme provider and attempt to assess its good (and bad) points. Today, the theme provider in question is Okay Themes. Run by Mike McAlister, Okay Themes came into existence as a full-fledged theme shop back in 2011 (although Mike has been selling his WordPress themes via ThemeForest since 2008-09). Most of the themes currently offered by Okay Themes are sold on ThemeForest. Theme Features Okay Themes currently offers 24 themes in total. Of these, 10 are free […]

Plugin Development: Do Less

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November 6, 2013

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In scouring the many WordPress plugins that exist on the web for my work on Tidy Repo, I’ve noticed some trends. Some plugins do very little; I’ve often said that plugins like Quick Page / Post Redirect and Simple Google Maps Shortcode “do just one thing, and do it well.” Others are more robust, offering turn-key solutions for large-scale problems. Think WooCommerce or Buddypress. It’s only very rarely that I come across a plugin that is actually somewhere in the middle of these two categories, and it got me thinking about which approach I prefer. And the more I thought […]

Typography Matters

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November 5, 2013

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One of the best ways to enhance the polish and professionalism of your website’s design is to choose great fonts. The process of choosing a font, or a combination of fonts, is often dismissed as an easy task. But the truth of the matter is—when editing a WordPress theme or trying to roll-your-own web design—deciding on typography is actually much more than a process. It’s an art, in and of itself, and there is a lot more to it than meets the eye. Designers who went to art school, and font foundries filled with people talking about things like “ascenders,” […]

Free WordPress Themes Fresh From October

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November 4, 2013

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October has come and gone, and just like any other month, it witnessed the release of many new and impressive WordPress themes…both free and premium. In general, the trend during October was clearly in favor of blogging themes, even though a good number of portfolio themes were released as well. Just in case you are looking for premium themes, check out our ongoing series, #ThemeThursday, where one new premium theme provider is reviewed per week—the previous installments include Theme Furnace, ColorLabs and DevPress. However, if you are looking for free WordPress themes, you are in the right place. There were several free WordPress themes released during […]

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