super cool wordpress blog design

Found this website today thanks to technorati, its just been launched on a wordpress platform, and looks great - a custom theme design, a really clean, clear look with fixed width, minimal graphics, a 5 col footer and 2/3 column layout. Love the auto stretching 2 col parts of the sidebar, which also houses a twitter feed, and recent last fm tracks and the authors current book reads.

Worth making a note of, just for the quality fo the theme alone! Content is a little sparse at present, as its just launched, but will be interesting to see how it matures and developes! It certainly shows a lot of promise, and is a very professional looking design by the blog owner, Edward Beauchamp. He is the guy who is also responsible for the design and build of wordpress based Opinel knives shop, opinels.co.uk.

Have a look at 3 things

New website released

I've just released my latest new website, opinels.co.uk,
really cool clean design, a little online based on wordpress which is no mean feat!! :)

Payments are handled by paypal, with the AJAX powered fat free shopping cart utilised as well, as per my release of socklover earlier this week.

This is the latest of a few new planned releases using the wordpress 'simple store' platform and template that i have hacked together!

Go check it out - opinels.co.uk - buy opinel knives online.

Love your socks

Just launched is socklover, a really cool website to put the love back into buying socks! Based in the UK, the site is a heavily hacked around version of wordpress, to allow users to ourchase socks online via paypal checkout.
A wide range of brands is promised, to appeal to all budgets, but for now there are socks from pantherella and richard james socks to get your feet feeling the love!

really cool urban photo's

check out urban art, its a site dedicated to finding the best freshest photo's of urban art, graffiti, sculpture, cities at night...the world we live in :)

six cool css tools

Nice short list of useful online based css editors and tools.

six great web development books

Over at new blog sharesix.com they just posted up a list of six really good web design books worth checking out.

Have at look at sharesix.

make money from parked domains

I have a lot of parked domains that i have accumulated over the years, as i'm sure a lot of people do. Its been on my mind lately how i can monetize them, or at least get them to pay their own registration fees each year! To that end, i have had a bit of a search around and came up with a couple of useful reults.

First off, over at business and life there is a list of useful links for making some money out of your domain names, so have a look at that.

Secondly, i found this a very handy php script that you can install on your parked domain in seconds, and have your own parked, monetized domain running in a couple of minutes tops - and they look so much better than the usual parked page.