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Free Icons For You To Grab

Beng — Tue, 18 Dec 2007 09:35:52 +0000

Pssst! Are you looking for a free icons? I found a site that offers plenty of different kinds of cute, clean and elegant icons…all for free. Visit blogmundi – it’s Spanish site but I think it’s not a problem at all. He listed all the sites where you can grab the icons. Ang tiyaga niya :). Anyways, I just thought of posting my find for others benefits :).

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My First Collage

Beng — Thu, 25 Oct 2007 01:32:52 +0000

My Photoshop knowledge is limited to creating page layouts and some photo retouching or correction. This evening, I decided to do something different. I tried to create a collage using an old photo of mine and some brushes. The result is not that really bad, pwede na rin itong pagtiyagaan.

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Five New WP Themes

Beng — Tue, 18 Sep 2007 13:35:14 +0000

Upon request of several people who emailed me, I am now releasing five new Wordpress Themes. I thought of doing this before I get busy with my new client’s project. The company owner asked me to devote my time and attention just for them for a certain period of time since the said project is quite huge. So as promised here are the latest and not so latest themes for you to grab.

Two of the themes I am releasing were part of my school projects which I have already forgotten and one was ordered by a client who backed out. Some of you may have seen them already on my Test Blog. Now dear ones, I am so very sorry but I don’t have the ample time to write a detailed representation for each theme. For more details please visit my Test Blog and serve yourself :bigsmile (sounds like fastfood resto huh) and or you may go directly to my Wordpress Themes download page.

All themes are of course widgets ready and validated.

Global Blogging

Screenshot | Download: Global Blogging (1448)

Autumn Blues

Screenshot | Download: Autumn Blues (1296)

Whatever Life Is

Screenshot | Download: Whatever Life Is (954)

Summer Fresh

Screenshot | Download: Summer Fresh (786)

Pour Homme

Screenshot | Download: Pour Homme (739)

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Me A Thief?

Beng — Tue, 04 Sep 2007 19:54:17 +0000

Wow what an accusation! A certain KATE of ROCK-KITTY.NET accused me of stealing her graphics and used it on my created theme called VIVACITY. She left the below message as comment in my previous post.

You’re a thief!! You’re not allowed to use my graphics to make your own theme of them! I’ve already reported you to Matt! Thief!!

http://themes.wordpress.net/columns/2-columns/447/vivacity-105

To your accusation Kate, here is my responce:

I’ve been creating Wordpress Themes since 2003, my site exist long before yours. Here is your Whois details my dear:

Domain Name: ROCK-KITTY.NET
Registrar: GODADDY.COM, INC.
Whois Server: whois.godaddy.com
Referral URL: http://registrar.godaddy.com
Name Server: NS1106.DIZINC.COM
Name Server: NS1107.DIZINC.COM
Status: clientRenewProhibited
Status: clientTransferProhibited
Status: clientUpdateProhibited
Status: clientDeleteProhibited
Updated Date: 04-jul-2007
Creation Date: 09-jul-2006
Expiration Date: 09-jul-2008

And here is mine:

Domain Name: LUKARET.COM
Registrar: CPS-DATENSYSTEME GMBH
Whois Server: whois.cps-datensysteme.de
Referral URL: http://www.cps-datensysteme.de
Name Server: NS3.NS1-TECH.DE
Name Server: NS1.NS1-TECH.DE
Status: clientTransferProhibited
Updated Date: 30-jul-2007
Creation Date: 08-aug-2005
Expiration Date: 08-aug-2008

I had a different domain before this one, just in case you’ll start wondering why I said “I started creating WP Themes since 2003″. I intentionally added our domain details here for you to compare the time difference.

Now my dear Kate, I am sure you can imagine how angry I am at the moment. You’re lucky you are out of my reach orelse I have scratched out your eyes already. See, if you possess enough brain in your head…you should have contacted me first, so we could clear things before unrighteously accusing me and reporting me to Matt. Stealing is the last thing I would ever do girl. What you did was a big big mistake, now I’m going to stuff your mouth with the truth.

I honestly never heard of you, not until the moment you left that nerve-rocking comment. With the help of great GOOGLE, I found your whereabouts. I simply put your email address, pressed enter…et voila, I got everything what I need. So, I went to your site to find out what you mean, there I saw a theme you created named “nicecolors“. The layout graphic look very similar indeed to my Vivacity theme. But girl, how can you say I have stolen your graphics, you created it around â€ŽApril â€Ž19, 2007, â€â€Žwhereas Vivacity on the other hand was made January 16, 2006. Well, I’m not only giving you dates of creations but below is the link of Vivacity’s PSD file.

Vivacity PSD *Warning: You are granted the permission to download my very own PSD file, but take note: never ever claim it as yours orelse you will be in deep trouble!

Download it, and look at it layer per layer. Do as you are told, and when you are done, come back here and tell me again that I am a THIEF!

You have done the damage, now mend it thru asking apology in public and tell Matt you were wrong. Show me you have balls!

Beng And Teaching

Beng — Sun, 19 Aug 2007 21:51:17 +0000

Can you ever imagine me as a teacher? Hehehe, I can’t imagine it myself either but hey, I am hired as substitute webdesign instructor for this entire week. I’ll be teaching in the same school where I took my continuing education on webdesign. Am I competent for the job? Yes I think so, orelse they wouldn’t call me at all if my qualifications is not sufficient enough. Anyways, before they got my yes, I asked the secretary first how much they are going to pay me. I beg your pardon if I sound so direct but, I am dead straight when it comes to work and finacial matters. I mean, I’m not going anywhere if at the end I have more loss than gain. To make the story short, everything is perfectly fine and so I grabbed the chance with both hands.

I know I had been posting the whole time about how tired I am and etc. Literally I am. But on the other hand, we need the money for our future plans. And hey, working as “instructor” is surely very interesting. I haven’t done this before so I am sure it’s fun (I hope).

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My Continuing Education

Beng — Sun, 24 Jun 2007 01:14:04 +0000

…is almost over now and so my life will be back to the normal routine again. Eight school days more and I’m done with my studies and I am looking forward to it. The past 5 months was tough and I could hardly believed I managed to pass the exams with an equivalent grade of superior achievement :) (look who’s bragging). But believe me, I was only able to achieved it with diligence and discipline. See, kong kailan tumanda saka pa ako naging seryoso sa pag-aaral.

I learned Illustrator, Photoshop, Flash, CSS, Dreamweaver and last but not least PHP and MySQL. I had Javascript on my list but I dropped it due to lack of time. I decided to concentrate on PHP and MySQL since I find them very important. The fact that we were only given four weeks time to learn PHP already made me feel sick. Gush, I fully understimated this programming course. I realized it was something difficult to learn after flipping some pages of the manual. I started having doubts if I would ever undertand the whole thing. But whatelse can I do? I was in the middle of my studies and even if I was on the verge of going insane, I have to continue orlese I have to pay back all the money the government has paid for my continuing studies to the institute. Little by little, step by step I begun to understand PHP. I was even learning at home until late at night thus hubby started complaining about me neglecting him, thus I started having nightmares when I sleep. Sounds horrible huh? But hey, the reward of all my effort is a grade of 1.0. We had no written exam for this subject but a practical exam. This means we have to develop a script, I for instance decided for a blog.

Yes, you are reading it right, a blog. It is currently running on my server as a food blog (installed for my previous exam) named The Joy Of Cooking. It was a hard work and I sweat blood over each line of codes.

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Fluid 3 Columns Theme

Beng — Sat, 09 Jun 2007 19:40:30 +0000

Releasing my second latest free Wordpress Theme for this year. Fluidity – I think the name sayz it all huh? This is my very first fluid/liquid creation and top of it all…it’s three (3) columns. I applied the famous Web 2.0 graphic design a bit to make it look trendy. I said a bit because I myself doesn’t like too much gradient and too bright colors. In my opinion, web design is exactly the same like fashion, everything should match and harmonize. Okay enough blah.

So, speaking of Fluidity, it’s widgets ready theme. But take note, only the right sidebar is widgetized. You can add your ads, Flickr Badge and whatsoever on the left sidebar. Just follow the structure of the tags if you don’t want your sidebar to be messed up. No plugins needed here. And yes, before I forget…this theme is optimized for search engines, and completely standards compliant.

Fluidity theme folder contains the following files:

header.php
index.php
footer.php
single.php
page.php
sidebarLeft.php
sidebarRight.php
archive.php
404.php
searchform.php
search.php
comments.php
functions
style.css

As usual, this theme has been tested on several browsers and in different resolutions. I haven’t found any bugs at all, but just the same, in case you’ll encounter some problems, please do not hesitate to email me. Though I am warning you upfront, I might not able to answer your queries immediately. I am a fulltime student at present, a mother of three kids and is running a household besides a part time job.

By the way, I’m not a comment whore but any feedback from you is highly appreciated. See, feedback works like balsam to my aching back and elbow. And above all, it gives me the inspiration to create more themes for free.

Live demo: Test Site
Full view screenshot: Fluidity Screenshot
Download: Fluidity (2629)

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Wanderlust Theme

Beng — Sun, 27 May 2007 13:29:49 +0000

…is another contribution of mine to Wordpress users. Wanderlust is designed for a personal blog, it’s a fixed width two columns theme with a light gray (#fdfdfd) background. The theme title is derived from header graphic, well…it’s summer time so I was inspired to create something suited to the season.

Wanderlust theme is Widgets ready, optimized for search engine, XHTML and CSS valid and tested on four (4) different browsers, namely: Opera, Firefox, Netscape and of course IE.

Download: Wanderlust (843)

View it live here (widget active) | Or here (widget inactive)

Installation instruction:

Unzipped file on your local folder.
Upload Wanderlust folder to your /wp-content/themes/ directory using your FTP tool
and also upload the plugins (included in the folder) to your /wp-content/plugins/ directory

*upload the complete searchlite plugin folder, as for the get-recent-comments plugin – please upload just the php file
go to your WP Admin panel and activate the theme under Presentation, then proceed to Plugins area to activate the plugins

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