Since Liberator is a one time event, an event that will undoubtedly change the blogging lives of seven bloggers, it made sense to create a Wordpress theme that had the gravity and muscle that such a project demands. Clean typography, modern palettes and a customizable mix of blogging and magazine layouts all play their individual [...]

On Friday I announced my latest project, Liberator, an initiative designed to give seven bloggers an opportunity to get a permanent sidebar link here at Upstart Blogger to ensure a healthy supply of traffic and, in a move that guarantees a blogging income, use of an exclusive privately managed Wordpress theme.
Many readers were a little [...]

As promised on Friday, Voluptua, an imposing minimalist Wordpress theme, is now available for download. Voluptua features large swiss typography with all text being set in Helvetica Neue, degrading via Helvetica and Arial to a standard sans serif typeface on systems that are typographically challenged.
Voluptua can currently be seen running unmodified at Musicians Who Blog [...]

Musicians who blog is one of those ideas that has sat comfortably in my collection box for years as more pressing projects have pushed it to the back of the queue. Put simply, Musicians who blog is a blog about, you’ve guessed it, musicians who blog.
Still technically in beta, while content is added and various [...]

A few months ago I wrote a post entitled When Premium Wordpress themes and open source ethics collide. It received a lot of interest and sparked a healthy debate that still, occasionally, rears its head.
The main thrust of my argument was that it was ethically wrong to actively prevent the further development of any theme [...]

As promised on Friday here is the final release version of the Upstart Blogger Enormous Wordpress theme. If you are looking for a high impact Wordpress theme with big typography and minimalist styling, a Wordpress theme that gets the job done if you want to really get your message across, then this could be the [...]

In the ever growing online world, as we move closer and closer to a time where internet access is available to everyone worldwide, creative marketing opportunities become more and more powerful. Sometimes, however, the most powerful marketing solutions are those that combine existing but otherwise uncomplimentary methods.
Producing a Wordpress theme and distributing it for free [...]