You may notice a few things missing from WeBlogBetter.com’s design. I’ve eliminated the Facebook fan page widget, the Twitter list widget, the two remaining banner ads, and some other odds and ends. Why? Well, partly because of yesterday’s post and the discussion that followed in the comments.

I think there are different styles of blogs. Some are clean, white, and minimalist. Others are busy, noisy magazines. I wanted this blog, in particular, to resemble the style of the average personal blog, primarily because that’s for whom I’m usually writing.

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Designing email newsletters stinks! Someone had to say it. Some look nice, but any designer knows you have to go back at least five years in modern design and development practices to design for email clients. Tables… ugh!

Well, Themeforest has a solution – a whole new category of some rather sweet looking email templates! And they’re just $8 – $10 each! Like I said… sweet!

So head over and check out the new email templates.

I just ran across the Marketplace Wordpress Theme on Themeforest, and it’s NICE! It’s clean, very easy on the eyes, and is conducive to a great blogging layout. The demo is for a photography blog, but it would be great for any kind of blog. It has good (but limited) adspace, a very nice flow on the home page with the article thumbnails, and a good footer layout. it even comes in multiple color schemes. I’m impressed!

Go check it out…

Micro-blogging, as in Tumblr and Posterous, both of which are excellent micro-blogging platforms. The beauty of both is in the ease of posting stuff from anywhere by email, bookmarklet, or the web, and in aggregating feeds from multiple sources into a kind of fused micro-blog.

Now Obox has released their first (hopefully of many) wave of micro-blogging themes. They’re nice! So far, there is…

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When I launched We Blog Better, I wanted to get the content going and worry about the design later. I did manage to find one of my new favorite free Wordpress themes – Phyto Theme by WebDesignLessons.com. But it’s time for the unveiling of the official We Blog Better custom theme, designed by… well, me.

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Wow, don’t miss this one. I love Woo Themes. In fact, I drool over them, haha. And they’ve just released their 50th theme. So in honor of that, they’re making an incredible offer… 4 themes for the price of 1, but only through the end of October.

Go grab a Woo Theme… or four!

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Some of the best premium Wordpress themes on the ever-growing market are produced by Obox Premium Wordpress Themes. They are stylish and tightly coded and come at a good and fair price. Today, they’ve announced the release of their new Through the Lens theme for multimedia galleries. It’s robust! Here’s an abbreviation of their description…

This theme can be used as a normal blog, a photography site, a work portfolio, a CSS / Flash gallery and much more (depending on your creativity). Special features include a voting system for each post and jQuery sliders for each category displayed on the home page… comes with a separate Blog template as well as a full width page template… you can set the home page to display like a normal blog… 7 different color schemes… and subtle CSS3 styling features.

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As a developer, I’ve had trouble here and there trying to learn the hooks system on which the Thesis Theme for Wordpress is built, but as a designer and even more as a blogger, I love it! It’s clean, versatile, awesome as far as SEO is concerned, and now has been improved greatly with a dropdown menu. You can get the theme with a personal license for $87 and a developer’s option for $164. The great thing about Thesis is that you can have all of its customizability and skin it with your own graphics fairly easily.

So go for it!

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I’ve become quite dependent upon certain technologies when it comes to living in our web wide world and one of them is Wordpress. Other systems outrank Wordpress in certain areas, but I’ve come to know and love it myself. But it must be hacked to be all that it can be. Here are some great Wordpress hacks that are sure to improve any blog interface…

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NattyWP is running an incredible deal right now. First, get any theme for $25. AND, buy any theme, get another free, so 2 themes for $25! That deal only runs through November 6, 2009.

NattyWP Themes puts out some pretty nice Wordpress themes for bloggers and businesses. Their newest, the NattyWP Home Office Theme, has just been released. It boasts nine color schemes, a thorough theme options panel, widgets, social networking features, and multiple page layout styles. It looks clean, features a nice wood background, and when combined with their special deal, it’s a pretty great bargain!

Check out the NattyWP Home Office Theme…

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