Foreign Perspectives

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Whilst there seems to be a vast number of Wordpress themes around in reality many of them are simple variations of a single theme.

Consider for example the theme I’m developing over at SevaTeem. I’ve started using early versions of it on various blogs to see how it flies. If you didn’t know that, you might think that the theme at A Time of Magic was completely different but in fact the only differences from that currently on SevaTeem are that the text is white instead of black and the background is different.

All being well, I’ll be releasing the theme to the world in a few weeks time so you’ll be able to play around with it yourself and perhaps create variants that even I wouldn’t recognise.

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Up until quite recently your choice was between paying $5 or so a month for a web hosting service or running with one that plastered adverts all over your site.

No longer. Take for instance PinkPaper. You get a quite respectable 300MB webspace (more than enough for many commercial sites and lots more than most individuals need), 10GB/month bandwidth (you’d need a lot of traffic to use that up), five addon domains (more than many paid for services offer) and all the usual stuff like MySQL databases and so on.

If you’re debating whether to go down the freebie blog route with something like blogger.com, this is a much better way to do. Your only cost would be $10/year to register a domain and you’d get a personal POP e-mail mailbox too.

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Website development blogs are all over the Internet if you care to look for them and they’re pretty good places to look for insights as to how you might do something or other.

Typical of a general web design blog is the one over at Stylish Design which, as with most blogs, doesn’t stick slavishly to it’s theme so in amongst articles such as the rather useful piece on web design basics and one on creating an adwords campaign you’ll find ones such as the off-topic but no less interesting for that one on cycling through Italy.

The site isn’t all fluff articles as many such blogs tend to fill up with and contains some fairly technical pieces on Perl and the like with a nice mix of articles overall.

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