WordPress Theme Design – Tessa Blakeley Silver
PacktPublishing
Price 35.99 USD (ebook $27.19)

I bought a book recently after seeing it mentioned in the WP dashboard news items, it’s called WordPress Theme Design by Tessa Blakeley Silver and although a lot of the information regarding the functions of wordpress can be found at the codex, the book gives you so much more like the process gone through to design a theme from scratch.

I do quite a lot of sites in wordpress now and find it much easier to provide a client with a website that can be updated so easily, a few plugins here and there and you can provide a website that does all and more that’s needed.

Usually I get a standard theme and cut it up a bit and change the css to give me my site, or create in photoshop and send off for wordpressing but lately due to some more custom design requests I’ve received and the always dependable mistakes that freelancers can make I have wanted to do the whole thing myself from scratch..

I’ve downloaded a tutorial before about WP theme design from small potato before it was taken over and that was pretty darn useful but was made a little while ago so it wasn’t 2.5 specific.

That’s why I like what Tessa has put her book, it takes you step by step through the process of creating a non-blog wordpress blog, from sketch to WP core code. It’s made a big difference to my initial prototyping of concept sites and has really opened my eyes to what you can do with a bit of manipulation of the wordpress template tags. I’m even working on a magazine style front page for here so I can have a featured post for contests that stays up while it’s open for entries as well as excerpts to the regular posts..

You can buy the book printed or get it as pdf for a bit cheaper (I printed mine out from pdf on someone elses printer lol!) at packet publishing

Packtpublishing is sending me a new book about WordPress For Business Bloggers , they’re offering a deal if you get both books together. Stay tuned for the review of the new book!

£37.50 + 0.50 P&P

I thought I would bite the bullet and start offering my own stock for sale here. To start with I’m going to offer these amazing portable speakers for less than you can get elsewhere (I checked!). I have plenty in stock and will send them next day registered post for just fiddyp! (50p). Here’s the info…

These portable speakers from Portable Sound Laboratories can hold an iPod or iPod Nano (and other mp3 players) and punch out a fantastic sound that you just wouldn’t expect from something so small!

In essence, the iMaingo speakers are a hard case for your iPod with built in speakers. Devices like this are not normally known for their superior quality output but the iMaingo is the exception! You’re not going to replace your home system with these but compare them to the myriad of mp3 speakers out there and you’ll see what all the fuss is about.

The iMainGo is powered by four AAA batteries (not included). The power switch can also be set to ALM mode which stands for “alarm”. When in ALM mode, the device remains switched off until it receives a signal from your iPod. When the alarm on the iPod goes off, the unit comes to life while blaring the song of choice at your slumbering eardrums. This can also be used as a battery conservation setting as well, since the unit will power down between songs.

This is easily one of the best speaker systems on the market. The audio quality is top notch and will work well in most situations. Those needing a cheap speaker solution will find this product a godsend especially considering the high quality to cost ratio and the battery life will provide hours and hours of quality sound.

Specs:

• Number of speakers
  2
• Audio Type
  Stereo
• General
  • Length (mm)
    145
  • Width (mm)
    96
  • Height (mm)
    61
  • Weight (g)
    255
  • Warranty (Months)
    12
• Power
  • Power Supply
    Battery
  • Battery Type
    Disposable – (Alkaline), Disposable – (Lithium)
  • Battery Size
    AAA

Buy direct from FiddyP. All UK orders are sent out next working day with recorded next day delivery for just 50p. International postage is just 3.50 on top (5+days international delivery). Use the buttons below to buy with a credit card, paypal account or use Google Checkout for faster processing.

£37.50 + 0.50 p&p (uk postage rate)

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