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Felicia Day is a professional actress who has been in numerous movies, tv shows and commercials. Check out her IMDB or Wikipedia pages for credits. Click on the video page of this blog for samples of her work. She also created "The Guild", an independent web series with over 6 million hits web-wide. Her passions include video games, fantasy novels, web 2.0, wordpress, cooking, playing with her cats and making people laugh.

Archive: Website Resources

Wordpress Resources

Posted on 23 April 2008 Comments (13)
Tags: Web Page/Blog, Website 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 200 7 and be envious.