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  • Green Envy Theme – An Artisteer Created...

    Green Envy is my latest theme created with Artisteer. I’m really having a blast with Artisteer. It lets me create the basic theme very quickly. Then I can spend my time improving it and adding features that put the theme in the premium range as far as options and flexibility go. Green Envy is a magazine style theme and is loaded...
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  • Cool Blue – An Artisteer Inspired Theme

    Cool Blue is a theme that was created with Artisteer. Artisteer is a great program for quickly creating a basic Wordpress theme structure. It just has a few areas that need some adjustments. I’ve tried to address a couple of those areas with this theme. There’s nothing wrong with the basic generated theme, it’s just that some of...
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  • Blue Moon Magazine Theme – Loaded With ...

    Blue Moon is a magazine style Wordpress theme with lots of features. Navigation above or below header Glider panel for featured content Featured category panel Post excerpt with thumbnails on front page Automatic support for WP-Pagenavi Enable/disable comments on pages Dynamic semantic classes for body, post & comments Admin bar at top of page when logged in Ad/banner areas in header, main content, sidebar & end of posts Incorporates WP...
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  • Pink Cadillac Wordpress Theme

    The Pink Cadillac theme came about almost by accident. I had already done the basic theme color scheme but couldn’t figure out what to do with it. Then about a week ago I made contact with a Wordpress user who wanted to make a sub-header area similar to a site he liked. He wasn’t sure how to go about doing...
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Set Up Your Own Local WAMP Webserver With Wordpress
This article was posted on February 11th, 2010 by: admin

When you start designing Wordpress themes it becomes a real hassle to constantly upload files to your web server to see if your latest tweak did what you wanted it to.  And what happens when your latest modification messes things up and your live site is non functional?  What you need is your very own web server. All of the individual applications are available, Apache , PHP and mySQL. But putting all of the pieces together is a real challenge. Now you can set up your own web server on your local computer with just one application that includes everything you need. You can do all of your theme... Read more

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Dynamic Header Rotation For Your Wordpress Theme
This article was posted on February 11th, 2010 by: admin

Some people are never satisfied. They liked the Super Simple Random Header Image but they wanted more . They wanted the header images to change every 10-15 seconds without having to refresh the page. So after a little head scratching and searching I’ve found the solution. This tutorial will be aimed at Artisteer generated themes, but it will work for virtually any Wordpress theme. This will also only work with Artisteer themes with square header images. Rounded headers have two images, a .png that provides the round corners and a .jpg that is positioned on top. The first thing you need... Read more

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Super Simple Random Header Image For Your Artisteer Theme
This article was posted on February 7th, 2010 by: admin

Modifying your theme to include random header images doesn’t have to be difficult. In fact it isn’t any more complicated than adding a few lines of code to the header.php file. I’ve created themes with random header images using a number of different techniques and this is by far the simplest way ever. It may not be the most efficient technique or the most random but it is easy. Note: This really only works for headers that are square cornered. When you make a header with rounded corners, Artisteer creates two images. One is a square cornered .jpg that sits on top of a rounded... Read more

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How To Create A Cool Peel Away Effect For Your Blog
This article was posted on November 12th, 2009 by: admin

You’ve probably seen the cool peel away effect in the upper right corner on some websites and wondered how the heck they did that. It certainly caught your attention. The peel away effect is a great way to get your visitors attention and direct them to some special content or product. It’s fairly easy to implement. You can also place it just about anywhere, not just in upper corner. The directions will show implementing the peel away in an Artisteer created theme but you can put it into just about any theme or website design. Download the zip file containing the peel away script and... Read more

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Making A Custom 404 Error Page
This article was posted on November 9th, 2009 by: admin

There are a lot of reasons visitors to your site may get the feared “404 Error” page. They made a mistake and typed in the URL wrong. Or the page was renamed or deleted. Whatever the case they end with a page that just says “Error 404 -Not Found”. Check out the default “Kubrick” themes 404 page (default 404). That surely doesn’t help your visitor. They may think there’s something wrong with your site and just move on and leave for good. Instead of just giving your visitor a confusing page with a cryptic message, offer them a solution. I’ll bet... Read more

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Add A Wide Sidebar Area Above Your Artisteer Double Sidebar
This article was posted on October 24th, 2009 by: admin

People have asked how to add a widgetized sidebar area above an existing double (two narrow) sidebar. So here it is. This tutorial is geared toward Artisteer generated themes but the concept will work with most themes, you’ll just have to work a bit to figure out where to modify your non-Artisteer theme code. This tutorial also uses a theme that was created with and earlier version of Artisteer so some of the CSS classes may have a slightly different name but it won’t be too hard to figure out. WARNING: Make sure you make backup copies of all the files that you are going to modify.... Read more

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  • admin: The body tag is in the header.php file. It’s the third small block of code above that shows the modification.
  • admin: The problem is with the new version of Artisteer. It does the layout in a completely different way by using...
  • admin: Usually it’s the other way around with things working in FF and not in IE. The most likely problem is...
  • MaAnna: Bud, thanks for a great tutorial. I got it to work by following your directions and then creating a new...
  • Gerry: Hiya, great explanations in your posts. just one question: RE:Dynamic Header Rotation For Your Wordpress Theme You lost me when editing...
  • Lady L: Hi! Love this tutorial! but I need help, after i added the large sidebar the 2 sidebars disappear in firefox....
  • Pontus: Doesn’t work for me – I just get a blank screen – both for site and wp-admin. What could I...
  • George: Thanks for this! You’re awesome, really. This saved me a lot (!) of time/work.
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