Ian has started a contest over at ThemeShaper to foster discussion of ideas on the next default WordPress theme. The goal: The goal is to start a discussion about a new default theme for WordPress, something that can help benefit the whole community. The prizes: Grand Prize: Your choice of 4 single-use license iThemes themes. First Runner-up: Your choice of 2 single-use license iThemes themes. Second Runner-up: Your choice of 1 single-use license iThemes theme. Note: Revolution will not be included in...

Is it just me or does the Firefox 3 Beta 4 splash site look somewhat sad? Maybe it’s the background, the cheesy “Welcome to” header or the sci-fi nipples hanging off the bottom box that I don’t like… Agree or disagree?

I have made some very minor updates to the IAMWW w2 DnD WordPress theme. Some padding Thanks to a question by Malcolm Coles: When the browser is less wide than the page, the character at the start of each line is so close to the browser border that it becomes a little hard to read. I have now added a 10px padding to the sides of the main container. To prevent the content from being slammed up against...

Being able to dynamically generate and call data is one of the greatest things about building a site with a content management system. Why should the power of a CMS engine be limited to storing, retrieving and displaying content? Why not also use this engine to generate classes within your HTML that can also may your site’s design dynamic? When I began working on designing a theme for Textpattern, I was heavily influenced by...

While I am not currently using WordPress, I thought I would try out Ian’s suggestion of hiding everything aside from the content on this post’s page. I wanted to do this for a while now, I just had to get my dynamic body classes working correctly with TXP. That’s right, I want you to hide everything non-essential, everything pretty, everything distracting, every single little bit of stuff, with display:none. What’s left? Content. Make it readable and you’ve...