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Many of the WordPress themes promoted are described as being widget-ready. Widget-ready WordPress theme is a theme that has widgetized areas which allows you to dynamically manipulate these areas in a simple drag-and-drop fashion. Widgetized sidebar is another way to describe the same thing because most of the widgets are used in the sidebars of the themes. However, sometimes you find a WordPress theme that you really like, but discover that it’s not widgets ready. Don’t give up just yet, making themes widget-ready really isn’t as difficult as you might think. Follow the steps in this article and we will teach you how to Widgetize a WordPress theme making it a drag-drop widget theme.

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Whether you have an existing blog or you want to start a new one, use the form below to let us know anything you have in mind for the blog i.e. your ideas, your budget (if you have one) or anything else you want. If you aren’t sure about what you want on the blog, then don’t worry as we know what questions to ask. So just get in touch and we will take it on from there.

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Why is a unique custom blog design important?

It is always genuine quality content that really keeps the readers coming back to the blog, but a unique blog design makes the blog to easily stand out amongst tons of others out there in the blogosphere and thus helps to make the first impression to a new visitor. And for a regular visitor, the blog’s appearance creates an image in the mind of the reader which plays a big role in branding.

Why should you hire us?

Any good designer can claim that they design with emphasis, contrast, balance, alignment, repetition, flow, etc, but a good blog design also understands what the reader wants and what you want your readers to do. Target clientele as in what’s their age, how much time they spend online, etc along with what’s the goal of the blog as in branding your services, making money through ads, making money through affiliate links, etc all play an important role as to deciding how the design and structure should be. We had web design experience and also were bloggers (personal and then making money through ads) and then got into wordpress blog designing in Dec ’07 – and along the way have had the chance to work along with top pro bloggers like Yaro Starak, Daniel Scocco, Kevin Muldoon, Kyle Eslick and many more which has taught us a lot and now we put all this experience behind designing your blog.

What do you get?

Brainstorming on all the ideas you have in regards to features you have seen on other blogs, plus feedback from us in regards to what all features will best suit the needs of the blog.

A unique custom made design that complements the goal of your blog, suits your unique content and provides ease of use to your readers.

Coding which is/has:

  • Table-less
  • Rollover and Dynamic Menu
  • Javascript Framework – jQuery (best option)
  • SEO Semantic, Complete Presentational Separation
  • Optimized for Load Speed
  • W3C Valid Shorthand and Optimized CSS
  • W3C Transitional XHTML 1.0
  • Cross Browser Compatible (Firefox, Opera, Safari, Chrome, IE7 & IE8)

Installation on the server (if you already have a blog, then creating a test location first and porting over all your content there and going through rigorous testing together before it goes live).

Clear Instructions including screenshots on how to easily manage your blog on wordpress.

3 months of free support on any issues in relation to the coding done by us and future paid support (discounted price for existing customers) for wordpress upgrade, addition/changes in features, etc.

How much does it cost?

The exact cost depends on the project requirements as in tabbed content in the sidebar, magazine style layout, featured content in javascript, embed videos/audio, etc – basically how much custom work we have to do on top of the default features available through wordpress admin and its plugins. We work transparently with all our clients and charges are based on the efforts we put, as in number of hours and not what kind of blog we are designing or who you are or where you are from.

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Whether you have an existing blog or you want to start a new one, use the form below to let us know anything you have in mind for the blog i.e. your ideas, your budget (if you have one) or anything else you want. If you aren’t sure about what you want on the blog, then don’t worry as we know what questions to ask. So just get in touch and we will take it on from there.

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We have the expertise, the knowledge, the skills, the experience, blah-blahand a rather whacky sense of humor that gets us through the business day.

  • We listen to what you want, and then we ask questions (it makes us look intelligent)
  • We make suitable recommendations (without being condescending)
  • We are helpful (without being bolshy)
  • We don’t charge an arm and a leg and we are always prepared to talk if you have a budget

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Oliver Efremov

OljaverThe design guru at Blog Design Studio. Most of Oliver’s day runs on Photoshop, Wordpress, CSS and last but not the least – music in all kinds of it as long as it is good =). He loves his work and when there is not much of it then wanders away for picnics around the hills of Macedonia. Connect with him at www.soundcloud.com/ethericloopz

Mayank Gupta

mayankphixrBooks were something that Mayank never used to like but no one knows when, where and how he felt in love with writing. He started with his personal blog and then carried on to start more blogs around web technology which remains his passion. A firm believer in the future potential of blogging and wordpress, he continues as a writer in web advancements. You can read his scribbles at www.reviewsaurus.com and http://twitter.com/mayank/

Rajat Bhadani

RajatBhadani4Traveling around the world while working in Sales, Marketing & Business Development in relation to IKEA in Newcastle, ADT Security in London, Orange & ‘3′ Mobile in Melbourne and Cellcity in Singapore, Rajat has now finally settled in Macedonia. He was always been intrigued by the power of internet while he was a teenager – used to be a freelance graphic designer in his college time – then while in jobs, he daily used to spend hours online doing stuff like networking, reading about technology, blogging, etc. – few years back he started picking up small web design related projects and outsourced them – and finally got full time into one of his passions along with his friends here in Skopje.

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I know we are all used to the standard 2-column or 3-column WordPress themes, but why not try something a little bit different for a change, something a little unusual, unorthodox and unconventional but still beautiful. Well, here is a compilation of 10 unusual WordPress blog designs that are more distinctive from the standard themes.

Here are the themes listed:
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Some time ago I decided to give WordPress a try and convert some of my XHTML codes to WordPress. I looked for tutorials on this topic and find a lot of them and the WordPress website has lessons too. But can those tutorials and lessons be really helpful to you if you don’t know PHP and don’t understand the terminology used in them? I was a little bit confused by the huge amount of information at the beginning. So let’s keep it simple at least for now.

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My situation a day back – In a city that has 47 degree celsius and the sun sits right on your head to ensure that every part of your body sweats and you lose few pounds. Trying to concentrate on writing few blog posts.

My situation at this moment – In a city that is so beautiful, greenery all around, big mountains and all in all a perfect scenic view with white clouds all over. And a place to hang out with people from all over the world, I’m sure by this time it would be pretty easy to guess that I’m talking about Manali (sheesh! what bad way of explaining the beauty and revealing a no secret – title says it already).

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