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Jan 27, 2012

Featured Designer of Modern & Clean WordPress Themes

I’ve just been browsing Themeforest.net as I sometimes do and came across a really awesome designer called Mike McAlister.

His WordPress themes are so clean, elegant, modern and functional that I just had to share some of them with the readers of my blog.

I hope you appreciate the designs as much as I do.  I’m seriously considering using one of his themes on one of my websites in the very near future.

Enjoy!

Rewrite

rewrite

  • Super Clean, Responsive Design
  • Fully Scalable Galleries
  • Swipe Support on Galleries
  • Fully Scalable Embedded Video
  • Twitter and Flickr Widgets
  • Drop Down Menu (on all sizes)
  • Custom Archive Page
  • Theme Options
  • Beautiful Typography
  • Shortcode Manager
  • Custom Styles
  • Social Media Icons
  • Contact Form

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Deploy

deploy

  • All-In-One Page
  • Super Clean Design
  • 3 Custom Backgrounds (Dark, Light, and Wood)
  • MailChimp Integration
  • Countdown Clock
  • Twitter Implementation
  • Blog/Comment Functionality
  • Menu Management
  • Theme Options
  • Post Scrolling Navigations
  • Twitter, Facebook and Google+ Share Buttons
  • Social Media Icons (Twitter, Dribbble, RSS , Vimeo, Facebook, Flickr, Tumblr, LinkedIn)
  • Contact Form

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DocPress

docpress

  • Minimal Design, Powerful Functionality
  • Four Portfolio Templates
  • Custom Templates for Homepage, Portfolio and Blog
  • Logo and Color Scheme Options
  • Layout and Style Shortcodes
  • WP 3 .0 Menus
  • Auto-Sized Featured Images
  • Contact Form
  • Installation Videos

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PrePress

prepress

  • Minimal Contemporary Design
  • WP3 Drop Down Menu
  • Unique Homepage Slider
  • Layout and Style Shortcodes
  • Twitter Widgets
  • Unique Blog Design
  • 6 Color Schemes (Green, Red, Orange, Blue, Gray, Purple)
  • Theme Options Panel
  • Contact 7 Support
  • Well Documented + Screencasts

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If you have any other suggestions of great themes like these, please feel free to comment and share below.

Also, if you use any of these themes; I’d love to take a look at your websites.

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Jan 22, 2012

My Top 10 Photographers WordPress Themes

WordPress skins are something I do, but there are occasions when; I either don’t have the time or just don’t have the skills to create the WordPress theme I really want.

I spent many hours searching for the perfect theme for my photography portfolio website.  Below were the best I could find on the web.

I thought I’d kindly create a blog post so you don’t need to go to all the trouble of searching!

Simpolio – Fullscreen Portfolio & Blog WP Theme

Simpolio

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JR Photography WordPress Theme

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Panorama Fullscreen Photography WordPress Theme

Panorama

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Adventure – A Unique Photography WordPress Theme

Adventure

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Mattis Photography WordPress Theme

Mattis

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Studio8 – A Creative Minimalist WordPress Theme

Studio8

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DynamiX – Premium WordPress Theme

DynamiX

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PhotoPurePress – WordPress for Photographers

PhotoPurePress

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Core Minimalist Photography Portfolio

Core Minimalist

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ANAN – For Photography Creative Portfolio

ANAN

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If you have any other suggestions of great themes like these, please feel free to comment below.

Also, if you use any of these themes, I’d love to take a look at your website and photography.

Here’s my site: evophoto.co.uk

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Jan 22, 2012

Stop ACTA! Time to act again!

ACTA is one more offensive against the sharing of culture on the Internet. ACTA (Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement) is an agreement secretly negotiated by a small “club” of like-minded countries (39 countries, including the 27 of the European Union, the United States, Japan, etc). Negotiated instead of being democratically debated, ACTA bypasses parliaments and international organizations to dictate a repressive logic dictated by the entertainment industries.

ACTA would impose new criminal sanctions forcing Internet actors to monitor and censor online communications. It is thus a major threat to freedom of expression online and creates legal uncertainty for Internet companies. In the name of trademarks and patents, it would also hamper access to generic medicines in poor countries.

More info here: www.eff.org/issues/acta and here: www.stopacta.info

EDIT: Video added of Protests against ACTA in Poland.

Many thanks to Obywatel RP for adding the comment with a link to this heart warming sight!


Now please sign the UK HM Government e-petition: https://submissions.epetitions.direct.gov.uk/petitions/20685

and the Avaaz petition to help: http://www.avaaz.org/en/eu_save_the_internet_spread/?cRQjWbb


Other reasons why this is very very bad!

Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement (ACTA) and Its Impact on Access to Medicines

 

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Jan 19, 2012

PROTECT IP / SOPA Breaks The Internet

PROTECT IP / SOPA Breaks The Internet from Fight for the Future on Vimeo.

Tell Congress not to censor the internet NOW! – http://www.fightforthefuture.org/pipa

PROTECT-IP is a bill that has been introduced in the Senate and the House and is moving quickly through Congress. It gives the government and corporations the ability to censor the net, in the name of protecting “creativity”. The law would let the government or corporations censor entire sites– they just have to convince a judge that the site is “dedicated to copyright infringement.”

The government has already wrongly shut down sites without any recourse to the site owner. Under this bill, sharing a video with anything copyrighted in it, or what sites like Youtube and Twitter do, would be considered illegal behavior according to this bill.

According to the Congressional Budget Office, this bill would cost us $47 million tax dollars a year — that’s for a fix that won’t work, disrupts the internet, stifles innovation, shuts out diverse voices, and censors the internet. This bill is bad for creativity and does not protect your rights.

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Jan 8, 2012

Baby Sitting Holly – Totally crazy in the bath!

One of my favorite photos ever I think.

Hope you like it too.

Please check out http://evophoto.co.uk/ That’s my photography business website.

I’m available for all kinds of work from portraits to events.

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