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Look at me, being all frugal

by ZombieSkittles on July 13, 2009

While I don’t write on here as often as I want, I’m almost always on here in the admin controls, fiddling with the backend of my blog. Oh innuendo. ANYWAY, I love all the different widgets and features, but one of my favourite things is my theme. I followed a link tweeted by ProBlogger, and it led me to the Frugal Theme.

What you see on this site is the basic free Frugal Theme, with only minor alterations in the form of the changed logo at the top, and some widgets added to the sidebar. It’s built with the idea of being as clean and simple a WordPress theme as it could. And it works. I love the layout, how neat it is, and how easy tweaking has been made. Through an options page users can enable features such as the customized logo, default fonts, input Google Analytics code without touching the theme programming, and other such features. The man behind the theme, Eric Hamm, has done a lot to ensure that users get the best experience possible.
The best part about this theme is that this is just the free version, and isn’t lacking like you’d expect, to make you buy the premium version. I refuse to spend money where I don’t have to, taking the free alternative where possible. Most of the time this proves a waste of time though because I end up with trials or things lacking so much in features it proves more a burden than a convenience. Most have tags on them screaming to “buy the full version now” and so forth, but this is one of those few things that don’t, and that just makes me love it more, to the point that I’m planning to buy said full version.
Of course, buying it means I have to cough up around $80, so it probably won’t happen for awhile, but it’s definitely a planned purchase; Frugal Theme is worth it.

You can be totally cool like me, and download the theme’s free version from here1, or you could splurge just to one up me, and buy the premium version here.

  1. free version was removed from the official site. There are probably other places you can get it, but officially it seems this theme is by purchase only now

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This post stuffs up THAT milestone

by ZombieSkittles on June 13, 2009

69postsI honestly had no idea how to react to this posting “milestone”. It came without warning, and with a stifled giggle, has been screen capped and posted here for my enjoyment. I have a particular love for making posts of silly milestones, as per my Twitter posts, so anyone who has glimpsed my blog in the past should of expected this.

Also, this is the most posts I’ve ever done on a blog; which I take as a good sign that I’m going to be able to stick with this in the long term.

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First rough version

by ZombieSkittles on May 10, 2009

In the name of rushing and finally getting things done, a first draft version of the main site is kind of done. It can be seen, coincidently, at http://www.zombieskittles.com. There are two basic features, the first being the main menu which links to all our sub domains, plus a few other projects of mine and Courtney’s.
The second took a little help from someone, who for no reason other than his love of WordPress put his hand up to help me. The Latest Updates page uses a plug-in pointed out by Mr David Jonathon to display the latest blog post from each of the blogs listed on the page. The point being to make a page that allows someone new to the site to see what our latest work is on each site.

The website itself is still fairly bland, but later versions will definitely be better than this. I’m setting the bar low so no matter what, people can go “wow that’s MUCH better than the last version”.

►Go to ZombieSkittles.com

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