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Why I use Artisteer for creating Wordpress Themes
July 23rd, 2009 | Author: Dan Harrison
Artiseer Startup Screen
This article is all about a template design tool called Artisteer. Artisteer is a essentially a design application that allows you to create your own great looking templates that can be used with Joomla, Drupal and Wordpress without needing any technical skills or needing to know how to use Photoshop or Dreamweaver.
When you’re creating lots of websites, coming up with unique designs all the time is hard work, particularly if you’re not artistic. Artisteer comes with loads of ready-made elements which you can blend together to create a great looking and unique theme. So for plenty more compelling reasons why its worth using Artisteer, keep reading!
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Posted in Development | 
Tags: Artisteer, popular, template design, web design, wordpress theme design, wordpress themes | 
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Disabling RSS Feeds in Wordpress
July 7th, 2009 | Author: Dan Harrison
Sometimes, if you’re using Wordpress as a content management system (CMS), you don’t want to enable RSS feeds. For example, if you’re running a corporate website, an informational site, or any other kind of website that doesn’t need to have RSS, then its worth disabling RSS on your Wordpress site. After some digging around, I’ve found some tricks that allow you to disable RSS feeds.
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How to get an affordable and unique logo design
May 26th, 2009 | Author: Dan Harrison
When you launch a website or business, having a bold and representative logo can be a huge advantage. For example, can you imaging the logo for Pepsi, Virgin, MacDonalds, Apple, etc? Having such a strong logo helps people to remember your brand. If you have a logo that’s quirky, funny, or clever, then you’ve made it even easier to remember your logo.
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Tags: affordable services, branding, design, logo design, outsourcing |
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WP Portfolio Plugin V1.0 Released
May 20th, 2009 | Author: Dan Harrison
After lots of work, I’ve publically released my first wordpress plugin called WP Portfolio, which is now available directly from the Wordpress Plugin Database.
The WP Portfolio plugin allows you to create a list of the websites you own or developed, which are then published on a page on your website. The plugin automatically generates thumbnails of each of your sites for you too. An example of the plugin in action is on my own portfolio page.
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