04.23.08
WORDPRESS RESOURCES
If you haven’t noticed, my latest obsession is redoing the blog, and pretty much all things WordPress related. I’ve compiled a list of sites that I’ve found really valuable in my hunt for a new skin, and other resources to help me (attempt to) tweak them. Hope they come in handy to some of you bloggers!
WordPress Theme Links
- Smashing Magazine has comprehensive lists of anything design related. Three great lists of Free Skins can be found here, here and here. A wonderful starting point.
- Fresheezy is another site with a Gallery of free WordPress skins. Definitely worth a look.
- WPZoom has very good articles and compilations of WordPress resources, free skins and otherwise.
- Uberblogger Skelliwag complied a list of six minimalist free skins. Handy if you’re into white space.
- Desperate Curiosity lists 100 favorite skins. A little older resource but still some nice designs.
- A list of skins at a Japanese(?) site called Designwalker rounds out my theme resources.
WordPress Plugin Resources
- Mashable has a list of 30+ Plugins to get more blog readers, and 50 Great Widgets. Both great lists to add content to your sidebars and enhance your site.
- Quick Online Tips has a list of the 50 Best Powerblogging Widgets.
General Design Lists
- 99 Sites Designers Must Know About. Great list of resources for design elements/inspiration.
- 100+ Web 2.0 Generators. Exhaustive list of everything from favicon generators to rounded corner graphics.
- ForWebDesigners lists fonts, css, free photo resources, all on an attractive page, smartly sorted.
Useful Sites for Designing Your Site
- Dafont is my first stop for fonts.
- Colour Lovers is a great resource for background patterns and user-submitted color palettes.
- Or create your own color palette at Color Blender.
After you find a theme and install your WordPress, use this helpful list “The Complete WordPress Post-Install Checklist” to walk you through your first steps. Then start blogging! Or check out adii’s list of his Top 53 Blog Design of 2007 and be envious. 
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Ooh… thanks! Will definitely be useful for me.
Love the new design but you might want to change up the blurb a little the “cooking, her cats” part catches me wrong every time d:
Awesome, I’ve been shopping around for a domain name so I’ll definitely be using some of these resources.
I really dig the new background
That’s a pretty good list – don’t forget the official WordPress stuff too – plenty of good resources there:
http://codex.wordpress.org/
Given the that URL, it’d be kind of a shame to leave it out.
This new skin matches your hair. Very nice
I may just finally set up my own blog…
Jonas, Felicia might be from Melmac and if so loves cooking, her cats…
Oh awesome, I’m also working on my own WP blog thingy and these will surely come in handy. Also, the new redesign is very swanky.
Nice work!
You compiled this wonderful list, went to the gym and did the outlines for all of season 2?! That’s just too darned good!
It is a really useful list and one that will come in very handy…
Uh…YAY! Me be novice to the whole out of the WordPress womb. I feel like I might be able crawl my way into a well laid out blog.
Other WordPress Resources
Just in case you missed this one:
http://www.go2web20.net/
Great list of resources. And btw, thanks for linking to 100+ web 2.0 generators.
Great, I’m going to look at some of these for inspiration for my blog. Which isn’t on wordpress, but I’m sure there’s general stuff in those links you posted.