Comments on: Holy Smokes! Is Pearsonified the Best Designed Weblog?

By: Chris P.

Chris P. — Fri, 11 May 2007 14:36:46 +0000

Dave — I did not win the Bloggy, and I'm not sure where I finished among the other participants. Gizmodo won, and while the design is reasonably intelligent (and utilizes the Gotham font, which is big ups in my book), I think it's kind of a drag that a site using the Gawker Media template won the award... Personally, I would have preferred to see a completely unique site like Veerle's blog or Subtraction win, but that's just me. Honestly, I was really surprised that Gizmodo won. And regarding a non-compete... no way I would do that! I'm kind of attached to this space, no?

By: digitalnomad

digitalnomad — Fri, 11 May 2007 01:35:03 +0000

Thanks for the answer man…did not know you sold this.

By: Dave Butler

Dave Butler — Thu, 10 May 2007 23:47:13 +0000

Note to nomad, Chris P is the man when it comes to comments. When he ran the show at Cutline that’s what made the whole thing great. He commented all the time helping people.

Chris what happened with the contest.

Also whats the Chris master plan post Cutline purchase. Did you sign a non-compete in the blog design field???

By: Chris P.

Chris P. — Thu, 10 May 2007 21:50:16 +0000

Nomad — I’d have to write a book to do the topic justice. My WordPress themes are 100% customized from the back-end XHTML and use of WordPress template tags through the CSS that styles it.

I originally learned WordPress by slogging through existing themes and then modifying the code to my liking. After a while, I knew enough to start out on my own, and that’s when I created Cutline, this version of Pearsonified, and Tubetorial.

At this point, I think Cutline is a pretty good starting point for anyone attempting to learn WordPress because it’s a bare-bones template that doesn’t involve any hocus-pocus JavaScript or even special PHP queries to produce output. It’s just template tags, XHTML, and CSS—a pretty pure learning environment.

By: digitalnomad

digitalnomad — Thu, 10 May 2007 21:44:33 +0000

Make that two weeks ago…

By: digitalnomad

digitalnomad — Thu, 10 May 2007 21:44:04 +0000

Don’t know if this cat answers comments…I had a question about a week ago. Guess not.

Looks aren’t everything.

By: Dave Butler

Dave Butler — Thu, 10 May 2007 21:33:46 +0000

Chris, make sure you post again on this topic or update the post with the final results.
it would beinteresting for you to pull apart from a design perspective the winning or another top blog.

By: digitalnomad

digitalnomad — Fri, 27 Apr 2007 15:42:25 +0000

This is a terrific design. Are there tutorials somewhere to shoe how to customize wordpress like this?

I am just starting out with WP and want to do it right.

Thanks

By: Ajay

Ajay — Mon, 12 Feb 2007 12:12:57 +0000

There isn’t any reason I can think of why you don’t deserve it :)

Congrats on the same…!

By: Ben G.

Ben G. — Mon, 12 Feb 2007 01:20:16 +0000

Hey man, you’ve got my vote. Well done!