WordPress Rocks! » Design Thoughts http://wprocks.com Commentary by Sadish on WordPress and his Themes Wed, 28 Dec 2011 04:02:17 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 Ripoff or not, You tell me!!! http://wprocks.com/design-thoughts/ripoff-or-not-you-tell-me/ http://wprocks.com/design-thoughts/ripoff-or-not-you-tell-me/#comments Mon, 19 May 2008 01:15:10 +0000 Sadish http://wprocks.com/?p=350 Weblog Tools Collection recently published a post, WordPress Theme releases for 5/16 .

I saw one of the themes that got featured, it was called “Liberty”.
Liberty Theme
Immediately I thought it is quite a blatant copy of my SeaShore Theme.
SeaShore Theme

If you would like to see a demo of both of the themes, click on the following links.
1. My Seashore Theme Demo.
2. Their Liberty Theme Demo.

When I asked them about this, they said, it is not a copy and they built the theme from scratch.
See the comments section on this post.

If you are a person who knows a little bit of HTML, you would do a “View Source” on the demo page, and you would see the “id”s of the different DIV elements were exactly the same.

Now I want you to be the judge, and let me know if what they did should not be considered a ripoff. Post your views on this.
Thanks.

Updated on 21 May 2008
It seems Eric from Conservablogs realized it is actually a ripoff, thanks to a detail email from one of our readers Ryan from Pixopoint.com.
So, Lets put this thing to rest and move on [Lets stop the comments section on this post].
I do not normally go to this level of writing a post, unless I have no other way of getting the people realize.
I do thank each one of you, who stood behind the truth one more time. Thank you.

]]> http://wprocks.com/design-thoughts/ripoff-or-not-you-tell-me/feed/ 11 How many of you use the “custom header image” option? http://wprocks.com/design-thoughts/how-many-of-you-use-the-custom-header-image-option/ http://wprocks.com/design-thoughts/how-many-of-you-use-the-custom-header-image-option/#comments Thu, 08 May 2008 15:02:53 +0000 Sadish http://wprocks.com/?p=334 The moment WordPress started supporting “Custom Header Image”, I am implementing this feature on as many themes as I develop. In fact, all my popular WordPress Themes like MistyLook, NigaRila, PalNila etc have this feature built into this theme.
All you have to do is, login to your WordPress, go to Presentation / Design and look for the option called “Custom Image Header”. Here you will be able to upload your own image, crop its size to fit your theme and save it. It shows up on your site’s header automatically.

I would like to know how many of you are actually using feature?.
If it is used by a lot of people, why is it not a popular feature in themes done by other people? Please post your thoughts on this.

]]> http://wprocks.com/design-thoughts/how-many-of-you-use-the-custom-header-image-option/feed/ 46 Is it time to ignore 800 by 600 Resolution yet? http://wprocks.com/design-thoughts/is-it-time-to-ignore-800-by-600-resolution-yet/ http://wprocks.com/design-thoughts/is-it-time-to-ignore-800-by-600-resolution-yet/#comments Tue, 29 Apr 2008 17:53:35 +0000 Sadish http://wprocks.com/?p=326 When I started designing WordPress Themes for the first time, my machine was set to 1024 x 868. FastTrack WordPress Theme If you look at my designs like “FastTrack“, “GreenFlower” etc, you would see that they are designed for people using 800 x 600 resolution.

Recently I saw a post titled Blog Re-themeing on some website. The owner of that website moved away from FastTrack as he felt it is “too narrow”.GreenFlower WordPress Theme

I would like to ask you people for your opinions. Are we at a point where we can safely ignore the 800 x 600 and start designing for 1024 x 768 resolution?
Please pour in your thoughts.
Thanks.

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