I bit the bullet recently and paid to join a site with some premium themes. The site is Elegant Themes, and for $20 a year you get access to a lot of nice looking themes. They have their own options and most have multiple layout and color options. The themes are very nice looking and well put together, the designer/developer did a great job here, and at $20 for a year, access to all the themes you can want to choose from, and potentially...

I recently setup a new blog for my girlfriend using Wordpress, on a different host than this one (great deal I couldn’t pass up). We were looking for themes for her quilting and crafting site, and found some pretty good blogs and resources beyond the typical one, the Wordpress theme directory. First was a blog called ThemeGrrl, as the name and title suggests it is for more feminine themes, but since this was my girlfriend’s...

It’s been a while since I have done an update, and happily there is a reason. It is not just laziness as is generally the cause. I spent a few weeks working on the new theme, made some great headway, then I hit some roadblocks. Those roadblocks caused me to go back to my original idea for this tie, and the result was a new book, Ruby on Rails for Dummies. Apparently I am a dummy, and this book seems to be what I am looking for. It...