Design Disease - Blog Design http://designdisease.com Design Disease provides cost-effective Web design services focused on usability, accessibility and Web standards. Wed, 03 Sep 2008 20:12:44 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.5.1 en Albeo Theme exclusively on Wordpress.com http://designdisease.com/blog/albeo-theme-exclusively-on-wordpress/ http://designdisease.com/blog/albeo-theme-exclusively-on-wordpress/#comments Wed, 03 Sep 2008 20:11:51 +0000 Elena http://designdisease.com/?p=119 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!

]]> http://designdisease.com/blog/albeo-theme-exclusively-on-wordpress/feed/ TOP.ORG http://designdisease.com/blog/top-org/ http://designdisease.com/blog/top-org/#comments Mon, 18 Aug 2008 14:52:57 +0000 Elena top join graphics org loved section lot competition http://designdisease.com/?p=117 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 can have a friendly competition (and the site has a lot of categories to choose from).

]]> http://designdisease.com/blog/top-org/feed/ Fervens Theme http://designdisease.com/blog/fervens-theme/ http://designdisease.com/blog/fervens-theme/#comments Tue, 05 Aug 2008 12:40:54 +0000 Elena fervens sidebar central freshness favorite column year time http://designdisease.com/?p=110 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 theme that has a base idea of “freshness”. Summer is my favorite time of year as it always amazes us with a rainbow of sensation and colors, making this time of year the best of all.  The green of the plants and trees, the blue of the water….I love this time of year :)

I tried with this new theme to get something from that “freshness” and make it work on the web, specifically on wordpress, my favorite(and hands down the greatest) blog platform. Because I couldn’t agree with Vitaly regarding the column positions we decided to make 3 versions of it, Fervens A (Sidebar 1, Central Column, Sidebar 2), Fervens B (Sidebar 1, Sidebar 2, Central Column) and Fervens C (Central Column, Sidebar 2, Sidebar 1).

Main features of the theme

  • 3 columns of fixed width
  • widget-ready — two sidebars (both sidebars are supporting widgets, but I recommend to use the smaler one.
  • the theme is using 3 plugins; 2 of them are integrated into functions.php, so there is no need to install them. These plugins are Gravatar, Recent Comments and FlickrRSS. You can use the last one to present your Flickr images in a Flickr Photostream (see the demo).

Download the themes for free!

You can use the theme for all your projects for free and without any restrictions. However, it’s forbidden to sell or redistribute the theme without both designer’s and Smashing Magazine’s permission — please link to this article if you would like to spread the word. You may modify the theme as you wish, but if you are planning to release your modification, please ask for a permission first.

Enjoy.

@Update 08.09.2008

The flickr rss is not running propperly.

Go on Administration Panel > Settings > flickrRSS and you will see 2 inputs for HTML Wrapper.
Place in the first box <li> and close it in the second one </li>

]]> http://designdisease.com/blog/fervens-theme/feed/ Sky, Land and water http://designdisease.com/blog/sky-land-and-water/ http://designdisease.com/blog/sky-land-and-water/#comments Fri, 11 Jul 2008 00:45:27 +0000 Elena http://designdisease.com/?p=108 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 address and now it is inside of the original domain and with a single design.

After my last post, I have learned what my weakest points are (marketing, communication, language barrier,) and I hope in the near future to see some improvements. Even though I felt undermarketed, I still did a few major projects, like blogflux.com, minnesota.com, ibegin…and so on.

Regarding what some of you might be interested, free wordpress themes, I have some projects with some friends and partners, but those will be public when the time is right. Just a hint, the next 2 themes will be called “Albeo” and “Fervens”.

I need to apologize to those who post comments on this blog and haven’t got an answer. I promise I will be more watchful from now on.

Enjoy this new design.

]]> http://designdisease.com/blog/sky-land-and-water/feed/ Design Disease new look http://designdisease.com/news/design-disease-new-look/ http://designdisease.com/news/design-disease-new-look/#comments Fri, 04 Jul 2008 15:13:23 +0000 Elena generous layout redesign clients approach worked months logo http://designdisease.com/?p=106 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.

]]> http://designdisease.com/news/design-disease-new-look/feed/ I am not marketed enough http://designdisease.com/blog/i-am-not-marketed-enough/ http://designdisease.com/blog/i-am-not-marketed-enough/#comments Fri, 11 Jan 2008 22:40:02 +0000 Elena mont http://wp-themes.designdisease.com/2008/01/11/i-am-not-marketed-enough/ 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 Blog Designers) …and this is all my fault.

Are you agree with me on this? Should I start selling Premium Themes? I would like to know what do you think about my work and if you theme lovers have any advices for me.

Here is my report for 2007.

  • InSense | 11th Oct 2007 | 2634 Downloads
  • Gossip City | 11th Oct 2007 | 5642 Downloads
  • Smashing Theme | 19th Oct 2007 | 2268 Downloads
  • Illacrimo | 5th Nov 2007 | 3572 Downloads
  • Christmas Days | 12th Nov 2007 | 4137 Downloads
  • Dilectio | 9th Dec 2007 | 6297 Downloads
  • More then 25 Unique Blog Designs for my clients and many more.

Just that.

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“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 asked if it’s possible to design another Wordpress theme for our readers. Elena agreed.

After we’ve discussed the details of the design and the main aims we wanted to achieve, Elena started to do her magic. The result is a fresh, clean, user-friendly and playful Wordpress theme “Dilectio” — a smashing Christmas present for Smashing Magazine readers.”

Dilectio Wordpress Theme

Update 12.01.2007This theme is availble also in :

and also a version for Blogger (Thank you Francisco)

Update July 04, 2008

]]> http://designdisease.com/blog/dilectio-wordpress-theme/feed/ 5 steps to something that will sell http://designdisease.com/blog/5-steps-to-something-that-will-sell/ http://designdisease.com/blog/5-steps-to-something-that-will-sell/#comments Mon, 03 Dec 2007 17:18:43 +0000 Elena sites steps focus like” “best subjects decided seller http://wp-themes.designdisease.com/2007/12/03/5-steps-to-something-that-will-sell/ 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 like” titles should rather focus on the design of their own blog sites since, in most cases, these sites have an awful design.

Moreover, when receiving advices from such people, whose web sites have been erroneously designed, one begins to wonder if or why those precious advices have not been already implemented into the sites promoting them.

Initially being attracted by the large, “best-seller like” title, you discover at a later date that the web site’s owner, a self-proclaimed “theme guru designer”, also provides a “Premium Themes” offer, inconveniently crowded and displayed in the sidebar. Well, well. Isn’t this my lucky day? I reckon that this site has everything I need in order to start designing my blogs just like a theme guru designer.

On the same subject, I remember that once I began debating on the subject of sponsored themes, those who nowadays promote their Premium themes started pointing their finger at me, while instantly assuming the position of saints and mighty defenders of the WordPress blogging platform.

Oh, and let’s not even get into the concept of “Premium” service, product or whatever. Such a concept reminds me of the days when web hosting providers used to sort their offer into: Silver, Gold, Platinum, and Premium. Now that’s boring and utterly with no personality!

So far, I had decided not to express online my opinions and approach on certain subjects. However, I’ve decided to break the silence and focus on the WordPress themes I’m designing or have designed, as well as on some general — or more detailed — subjects, such as the one displayed above.

TaTa

]]> http://designdisease.com/blog/5-steps-to-something-that-will-sell/feed/ Christmas Days - WordPress Theme Release http://designdisease.com/blog/christmas-days-wordpress-theme-release/ http://designdisease.com/blog/christmas-days-wordpress-theme-release/#comments Mon, 12 Nov 2007 09:17:27 +0000 Elena christmas folder plugins days administration upload panel gossip http://wp-themes.designdisease.com/2007/11/12/christmas-days-wordpress-theme-release/ 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 2.3.1 with Firefox , Opera, Safari and IE6/7. It validates as XHTML 1.0 Transitional.

Christmas Days Free WordPress theme

Theme
Once you’ve downloaded the theme and extracted the files, upload the folder to your wp-content/themes/ directory. Next, go to the ‘Presentation’ area in your WordPress administration panel and activate the theme.

Plugins
I’ve included the following plugins with the theme (in the plugins folder):

  1. flickrrss

Just upload everything in the plugins folder to your wp-content/plugins/ folder and activate the plugins from the ‘Plugins’ page in your administration panel. The plugins are customised to match Christmas Days theme.

License
This theme is released under Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 3.0 License. Please keep the design credit.

The theme is Widget Ready.

Enjoy.

]]> http://designdisease.com/blog/christmas-days-wordpress-theme-release/feed/ Celebrific - Gossip City - WordPress Theme Release http://designdisease.com/blog/celebrific-gossip-city-wordpress-theme-release/ http://designdisease.com/blog/celebrific-gossip-city-wordpress-theme-release/#comments Thu, 11 Oct 2007 10:18:13 +0000 Elena gossip city theme download free design blog professional http://wp-themes.designdisease.com/2007/10/11/celebrific-gossip-city-wordpress-theme-release/ 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.

Gossip City - WordPress Theme Release

Theme
Once you’ve downloaded the theme and extracted the files, upload the folder to your wp-content/themes/ directory. Next, go to the ‘Presentation’ area in your WordPress administration panel and activate the theme.

Plugins
I’ve included the following plugins with the theme (in the plugins folder):

  1. flickrrss
  2. wp_gravatar

Just upload everything in the plugins folder to your wp-content/plugins/ folder and activate the plugins from the ‘Plugins’ page in your administration panel. The plugins are customised to match Gossip City theme.

Logo
By default, the theme displays your Web site’s title and description in the header. If you want to replace that with your logo, it’s easy to do. If you look at the Logo Instructions.txt you will see how easy it is to change the logo. PSD Source for the logo is also included.

License
This theme, like all themes released by Bloggy Network are released under Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 3.0 License. Please keep the credit and the links from the footer.

The theme is Widget Ready.

Enjoy.

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