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DailyNotes is our latest theme release. We wanted a theme for the every day person, It uses a dark background with a lighter background around the content. 2 columns and an area to link to your twitter account in the sidebar. You can download it here

The theme is fully widgetized as always. [...]

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Gadgetizer is exactly what it sounds like it would be about. Gadgets. We wanted a simple theme that focused on the products themselves, so we have a big Flickr area in the footer section, as well as a mashup of images right below the featured post. As always, the front page has [...]

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We wanted a good strong theme that could fit a wide variety of topics for Tipz, which mainly writes how-to articles among various other topics. The front page has an easy to use “feature” section so you can easily put on display your most in-depth posts. You can even slot in a nice picture and [...]

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Here is the third in our series of theme releases.
We made this theme custom for our Bloggy Network blog Lap of Luxury. We wanted a theme conveyed rich and glitzy. Gold in the logo, and white and black are used as the main colors in this 2 column theme. It contains a sidebar [...]

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Here is the second in our series of theme releases.
This theme screams celebrity. Blues and pinks dominate this design making it perfect for either your celebrity blog or any other topic that needs a bubbly personality. This blog theme is simply 2 columns and is fully widgetized

A special feature of this theme is the [...]

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We decided to further tweak some themes we released the other day as we just weren’t happy with the final outcome :) Anyway, here the first one is rereleased. First up is……
Money Blog
Nothing says money more than the color green so here’s a theme for you. The front page banners a “feature” section [...]

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Evidens is a new 3 column, full width theme from Design Disease. Featuring both White and Dark variations, this modern/industrial theme is both elegant and edgy at the same time. The three column layout is perfect for adsense and text link integration.  The design features ample space for your blog content, making sure you have [...]

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We have finally done it! After a long time, we are releasing a brand new theme called Compositio. As some of you know, we name our themes based on Latin. Compositio is a two column theme, made to for those who want to put their content at the front with a unique light blue design. [...]

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New Blog Design for HostGator.com

Posted on: Thursday, Jan 15, 2009

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I’m very happy to announce the release of a new set of themes designed by Elena of the Design Disease team. This set was designed for Hostgator Web Hosting and she spent a great deal of time perfecting the theme to provide a nice, professional, look. The results, I think, are a stunning [...]

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The new site features 7 high quality, feature rich designs from Design Disease. Each design is available for full preview, and can be purchased with just a few clicks. Two of the designs that we’d like to highlight are Newsmag and Perfection.

Newsmag
This clean, professional looking theme is a perfect design for your news [...]

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I made this theme specifically for Wordpress.com users. You can find more details about this theme on the release post on the Wordpress blog located here.

Please let me know your thoughts about our latest theme in the comments below.  Thanks!

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TOP.ORG

Posted on: Monday, Aug 18, 2008

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An old friend of mine came to me a few weeks ago, asking for a simple design for his new site – TOP.ORG
I was happy enough with the design (and he really loved the logo too) that I decided to join the Web design & graphics section. Maybe a few others can join and we [...]

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Fervens Theme

Posted on: Tuesday, Aug 5, 2008

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Fervens is the name for the new theme i made for my friends from Smashing Magazine. What is Fervens and what does it mean? As you might know, I give all my themes Latin names because I believe they are more practical and more brandable.  They just feel right to me.

Fervens is a 3 column [...]

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Sky, Land and water

Posted on: Thursday, Jul 10, 2008

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Sky, Land and Water, this is Design Disease’s new face. I have been working on this new face for about 3 months. Finally, after I tried many different forms and fonts, I came up with this underwater world.

I have also made some domain blog changes. My original URL for the blog was on another [...]

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After many months we’ve worked for our generous clients we made some time for us and redesign our site. You can see a new logo, new layout design and a new approach.

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I am not marketed enough

Posted on: Friday, Jan 11, 2008

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For the last few months I discovered my weakest point and that is communication through this blog. Not being a native English speaker moved all my attention to design and design only. I thought this is enough but it isn’t so and this is my conclusion …I am not marketed enough (See other [...]

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Dilectio Wordpress Theme

Posted on: Friday, Dec 21, 2007

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I made a new fresh wordpress theme for the readers of Smashing Magazine.
“Over the last year Elena, the creative mind behind Design Disease team, has designed a number of free WordPress themes, as the Smashing WordPress Theme we released as a present for our readers during our One-Year-Anniversary in September’07. Afterwards we’ve contacted Elena and [...]

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Quite often, I see large, big titles such as: “10 Steps towards improving your blog’s design” or “5 Simple steps towards an astounding blog design”, or others alike.
I don’t really mind the title as much as I mind the simplicity tackled by some when treating this subject. I think that those who use these “best-seller [...]

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I’m proud to announce the release of a new theme called “Christmas Days”. This theme is a season theme for WordPress created by Design Disease. The theme was created because most of us celebrate Christmas, and I wanted to make a gift to all bloggers around the world. The theme has been tested on WordPress [...]

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Yes we did it after the so many requests.
The Gossip City theme is ready for download.
Enjoy.
@Celebrific
Gossip City is a theme for WordPress created by Design Disease. The theme was created based on what people would want to see from a gossip blog.

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Once you’ve downloaded the theme and extracted the files, upload the folder to your [...]

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Filmsy Redesign

Posted on: Friday, Oct 5, 2007

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BloggyNetwork is the greatest place for me right now and this is because I have the best bosses I’ve ever had and the freedom to design how i want and whenever i want. From time to time we refresh the look of our blogs doing a redesign. This is the case of Filmsy one of [...]

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GossipCity 2 – Test and Preview

Posted on: Saturday, Sep 22, 2007

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GossipCity isn’t done yet… here is the second version of it. It is a better version in my opinion with more options. I would like to say thank you for all the messages from the previous GossipCity Theme post. The space is better optimized the colors are more vibrant and used in a lighter [...]

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Smashing Theme

Posted on: Sunday, Sep 16, 2007

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Many of us know and read Smashing Magazine. Last week SM had their First Anniversary celebration and Vitaly ask me to do a wordpress theme for this occasion. This was an honor for me and say thanks in a special way to this magazine for the content they provide. I haven’t got so much time [...]

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Back from the holiday

Posted on: Thursday, Sep 13, 2007

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I am back from my short holiday from Crete, Greece. To short for me i think but i can’t complain… look on the pictures and you will see what i am talking about. Before leaving to holiday i forgot to mention that i made a Celebrating Theme for Smashing Magazine. I will come with [...]

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TravelBrook

Posted on: Tuesday, Aug 28, 2007

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TravelBrook will be new site of BloggyNetwork. This blog would like to be a reference point for those planning the travel destinations. The blog isn’t populated yet but in a short period of time it will be alive. By then i am proud to present you the logo i made. The blog is even [...]

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Mike Steel said:

Director of Marketing (BetUS.com)

As a world sports betting leader, BetUS.com strives to use only the most creative designs for their website. We highly recommend DesignDisease as a very reputable and creative web design company. Thanks Design Disease!

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