somefoolwitha.com ...since 2002

I have been experimenting with my feed along with my Yahoo Pipes and have created a couple of full-on feeds. One of these (RSS Feed) combines my site, Tumblr, Flickr, Google Shared Items and Twitter; and the other (RSS Feed) is exactly the same but without Twitter updates (you might, amazingly enough, not want to be bothered by my nonsense). Though I've been tempted to replace my main feed with one of these (the sans-Twitter one probably) - I haven't done yet.

I'm not sure how popular this might be but I'd certainly like to see a few people combine their myriad of sites/feeds into one easy to digest place.

Note

that I have changed the feed and RSS links to point to the Feedburner versions so I can more easily keep a track of them all. Feel free to visit the Pipes site though and clone them, but please use the Feedburner links if you plan to subscribe.

Following closely on the tail of the first giveaway - here is my second theme giveaway of most of my previous designs. This was an inverted version.

As before

, note that these are given away as-is, or Caveat emptor. I offer no support for these and no promise that they will work in your system, though they should do. I have removed all my personal information, links and images so you will have to do some initial digging around in the code to put in your information but it should be fairly clear.

If you do decide to use the design or elements of it please credit me. You can redistribute it with credits to me, but not commercially.

Once again, please enjoy my very messy code and download it from here. More is planned so keep an eye out.

As promised I'm giving away WordPress theme folders for most of my previous designs. For starters here is the one cunningly dubbed "sflwa-sept06". This is the pinnacle of a design I started about a year and a half ago and has evolved gradually to what I'm giving away here.

Now, note that these are given away as-is, or Caveat emptor. I offer no support for these and no promise that they will work in your system, though they should do. I have removed all my personal information, links and images so you will have to do some initial digging around in the code to put in your information but it should be fairly clear.

If you do decide to use the design or elements of it please credit me. You can redistribute it with credits to me, but not commercially.

That said, enjoy my very messy code and download it from here. I hope to upload some more theme folders over the coming weeks, so keep an eye out.

I won't say any more initially, just have a wander around. Leave a comment if anything's broken or even email me. I have a little surprise planned to go with 'blanc' but hopefully it won't take me quite as long as blanc has. I shall also start gathering up my old designs for those who would like the raw (slightly preened) files.

And this design never made it

I plan to update this page frequently

I mentioned I'd been work on Blanc, my site's new design now for about a month so I thought it was time to keep a page with it's current status. Im still planning on giving away my current site's WordPress theme styles when Blanc is done. AND another little surprise is planned but not entirely confirmed yet, I'll see how I go.

I'm quite excited about this design but I want to make it right. I have also gone down some certain design routes with it then had an idea for an alternative way of doing it and so to some degree scrapped the last design. Most of the last month or so has also been purely on the home page, trying different layouts and colours, making sure I still liked it the next morning, pressing the delete key alot, not and seeking ideas. There was no use of Photoshop (CS3 beta o_O) for layouts - just an idea in my head and diving into CSSEdit 2 for CSS, TextWrangler for code and Cyberduck for ftp. Only in the last 1-2 weeks have I endeavoured to tackle any more pages and the majority of those 1-2 weeks was the single post page. The Stickies widget in Dashboard has been a useful place to save little to-dos so I remember my ideas.

This new theme from the ground up game is harder than it looks. I currently have the home page sorted (though Im looking at ways of spicing it up a bit) and Im working on the single post page. It's certainly interesting and pretty frustrating too - I'm torn between getting it done and sticking it up or taking my time to get it right and test it thoroughly, fix as much css/html as I can and ensure I have all the feature I want before activating it. Im trying to force myself into the later. Possibly Interesting to note too that I'm seriously considering releasing this new theme (or maybe a simplified, tweaked version) as a publicly available theme. The final theme will be far to complicated to release but a paired down one should be ok. If anyone wants the current theme or any of my previous ones released to the 'as is' then contact me via the About page and Ill think about it.