What I learned from a conversation on wpchat a few weeks ago was that it’s basically very hard for free theme authors to compete with those who create premium themes. These five tips might help you compete if you make free ones.
Pico is a mod of Darren Hoyt's Mimbo. It has a clean design and plenty of useful features, have a look!
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Get Sophia, wplover's newest Thematic child theme. Give your blog that elegant minimalism look it deserves.
A Simple Love, a minimalistic child theme for Ian Stewart's famous Thematic theme.
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Our Rights WordPress Theme, A grunge-styled WordPress theme based on a design by Nindya, a kickass Indonesian blog designer.
Hashgrid is a neat tool to show/hide a layout grid on your website design. Done with JS and CSS.
Go to border-radius.com and see how many different code it takes to get a rounded-corner to work on all browsers. Completely agree, browser-specific prefixes are very messy.
A few thoughts followed by a discussion on how various things are done on the 2010 Theme. Completely agree with “Widgets are not List”. It can result in many nested lists that are hard to CSS and I don’t see a good semantic reason why you should build a widget area (or sidebars in general) as a List. I mean sure they are a list of Widgets, but the main content area is also a list of posts; do you want to wrap that in a <ul> as well?
Really love the resource links on #10 and #11. Read the entire list here.
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