http://www.killfive.com Five Killer Skills for Freelance Writing Success Fri, 10 Feb 2012 02:41:14 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 http://www.killfive.com/questions-reader/ http://www.killfive.com/questions-reader/#comments Fri, 25 Jun 2010 19:12:13 +0000 Killer http://www.killfive.com/?p=1880 embaPub="pub-7892081358828087 ";A reader recently asked some blogging questions and I though the answers would benefit all… Do you mind sharing with me what you did to learn how to create your site? Not at all…My wordpress site is based on another theme. There is nothing wrong with taking a theme and tweaking it till you like it. However, you can make them from scratch with a very helpful tool found at: http://www.yvoschaap.com/wpthemegen/ The first few themes I set up with theme generator, but as I came to want more advanced features I found starting from a base theme that I liked worked better for me. My advice: go with simplicity. White as milk is one good theme. Another is called cleanpress. Fool around with colors and graphics. Mine is based on one called 1024px. When you see the screen shot (top left), it’s amazing how different they are. Color makes a big difference. Most of my graphic changes are in the header. Mostly colors were changed in the body. I learned through trial and error. But I have a background in computers and was raised by a systems analyst. I’m not afraid of code. You shouldn’t be either, but you should [...]]]> http://www.killfive.com/questions-reader/feed/ 0 http://www.killfive.com/infolinks-winners/ http://www.killfive.com/infolinks-winners/#comments Thu, 17 Sep 2009 14:47:12 +0000 Killer http://www.killfive.com/?p=672 http://www.killfive.com/infolinks-winners/feed/ 0