If you’ve read posts on Ars Grafik, you’ve probably figured out that we are big fans of WordPress. In fact, we love everything WP. The platform is robust and stable. The community is vibrant, active and positive. The free theme directory at WordPress.org provides thousands of awesome ways to style your blog without any expense. And, you can host your own blog!
But hey, Blogger is a cool platform also, and we love to see bloggers everywhere find cool stuff for their blog. With that in mind, I’m directing attention to WP Blogger Themes, where a remade for Blogger version of the Slate theme is being offered. The transformation is being credited to wordpresstoblogger.com.
My thoughts on this:
I love that someone took the time and effort to make the Slate theme available to a new audience. The spirit of freely giving to the blogging community is what makes developing free themes a lot of fun. I applaud tmwwtw (the cryptically named theme tech at wordpresstoblogger.com) for taking what’s available and moving it forward.
Blogger users have been woefully restricted in their blog styling options, so it’s great to see them get a good assortment of themes to choose from. Let’s be honest: traditionally, Blogger templates were lacking in pizazz.
Since there have been thousands of innovative themes produced for WordPress over the last few years, just think of the potential this may have. (Need confirmation? Take a look at the PageRank at wordpresstoblogger.com.) It would be great to see as much diversity of offering to the Blogger community as there is for WordPress.
If tmwwtw and others are willing to make these conversions, then more power to them!
On the other hand, I do wish that WP Blogger Themes, or wordpresstoblogger.com, would choose not to include a paid sponsor link in the footer. It’s not the end of the world, but it does dirty up a good thing.
I will leave it at that.
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10.16.09
… I also find myself torn between the coffee shop and my dual monitor setup
11.04.09
May I suggest ABR Viewer as an alternative to loading and trying each brush in Photoshop? It’s free, and I use it regularly. You may find this a great time-saving alternative!
http://abrviewer.sourceforge.net/
Hope it helps!
11.04.09
Thanks for the referral, Cyndi! I’ll have to spend some time tonight trying it out.
02.11.10
I love you to pieces man!!
10.14.10
I wished and wished for a Mac, then was given one at work.
So I moved all my files over.
I HATE it. I’m a designer. I have about 50 folders for 50 different projects. I name the banner psd “banner.psd” for all of them. Try and search for them all, yeah the Mac finds them but then you have to do “get info” for each one (or change some such setting and still click on each to see where the dang thing is located. On windows. I glanced at the path to the folder and voila. Yeah changing permissions on Vista is a headache but it’s far better than the constant problems I have on the Mac. Photoshop is twitchy at best, the thing crashes, although my Roku, PS3, Wii, personal laptop all do fine with my wirless, the mac drops it all the time. I use multiple monitors. Oh my god what idiot thought of leaving the application menu on one screen when the application is on another? You can only choose one little sprout because Steve Jobs knows better than you how you should work.
can’t wait to ditch it.
sorry tirade over.
ps tons of free windows applications out there.
11.26.10
Um… how about not naming all of your files the same name? Sounds more like an organizational issue than an operating system issue, either way.
I might recommend using an identifier and THEN _banner.psd? I assume it’d be difficult to find photos as well if every picture on a drive had its own folder and was named “photo.jpg”.
Examples:
Projectname_size_banner.psd
Clientname_size_banner.psd
etc…
04.17.11
Ok, so… I’m a total newbie to photoshop. I have CS5 and a brickton of brushes. I have tried renaming them, but they do NOT show up in the list like I want them to. I’ve played around with it for like a half hour. Can anyone please help?