I finished up a design and custom WordPress theme for Lindis Courtney over the weekend. I think I got very close to the look she was going for and that her custom theme turned out successfully. She obviously agrees – this is what she said:

Thank you so much! Now I know about widgets too.

You are a good man, James Kendall. I will be back for more projects and
tell all my fellow life coaching friends about you.

Thank you Lindis, great clients make great projects much easier.

Here is a project that I did not blog about when I created it initially a few months back, but since I was doing some major modifications I thought that I would give it some link juice.

Tigers & Magpies brings you Korean travel reports and photos so that you can learn a little bit more about the Korean peninsula.

I revisited this project recently and added some custom views to a pair of categories and filtered those categories from the from page as well as cleaning up some odds and ends. Addendum: Evidently Eddie is happy with the results as well – see his comment here.

Gary Marcoccia over at AvantLink.com says:
Looks great thanks for all your help! We’ll certainly keep you in mind for future projects, or refer anyone who needs a custom theme.

Ian over at houseofbaby.co.uk says:
It’s looking very good, so many thanks for building so quickly for me, great job and thanks once again.

You guys are very welcome, it was a pleasure. If you are interested in getting in touch with me and discussing your WordPress based project just drop me a line

Hey Now – I am pleased to announce a new version of the themeorrhea free wordpress theme. While many things have changed I tried to focus on typography with this new release.

It also now features a widget to control the home page only blurb, and a simpler internal header, a cleaned up style sheet and a few modern feature additions. Follow me on twitter to keep up with when this and all of my free themes are updated.

I think times, they are a changing. CNN Political Blogs are now using MU, and the blogs at ZDNet are using some flavor of WordPress.

Silent Bob blogs with WordPress, that should be enough for the Ninja by itself. Yahoo is using WordPress ( I know because they asked me to work with them on a WP project once, but that is another story…) and Sony trusts the PlayStation blog to WordPress.

Rolling Stone, NewYork Times, Delta Airlines? Check.

I am admittedly biased, but I think if these big-timers can trust their sites to WordPress, we can too.

ilfilosofo’s WordPress Database Backup Plugin is very cool – you can schedule WordPress to email your database to you, save it to your server, or download it to your computer. I know that you can backup your database yourself but you have to remember to do it – this plugin relieves you of that responsibility.

I used to use ilfilosofo homepage plugin before WordPress decided to make that a core function, but I missed this plugin, which makes me wonder, what other great WordPress plugins are out there that I have overlooked…

The server is very fast ( your site will load as fast as ImJTk.com ) and has been tuned specifically to run WordPress sites.

So bounce on over to my contact form and get on my calendar so that I can design you a kick ass WordPress theme and offer you free hosting until next summer.

Hey Now – we are pleased to announce that Doc5 is now the official home of the famous, free, Was: ImJTk WordPress theme. You can down load it, comment on it, and get support ( when time permits ) for it here at Doc5 from now on.

If everything goes as planned we will continue to migrate JTk’s themes and other content over here to Doc5 so that we can clean them up We’ll also continue to keep cranking out new, free content created by all of the talented folks here at Doc5.

Last week I whipped out a cool blog theme for a great guy named Marc over at My Credit Group. While this design is not necessarily my favorite style is is exactly what the client wanted, and therefore, a successful project.

I normally don’t blog each WordPress Theme I create ( otherwise that is all this blog would be about ) but this blog may be special – but not because of anything that I’ve done. I think this blog has the potential to have the best content created by the client of any theme that I have ever designed.

Marc has some great credit related content over there, not just the standard fluff, and it looks like there is a nice discussion building around his timely topics.

So if are interested in this type of thing, I highly recommend that you check it out.

Since I had a user of my Independence Day WordPress theme ask me to update the theme to take advantage of WordPress 2.3′s tagging feature I went ahead and did the complete over haul and I am calling it version 1.4 and it is ready to download.

Some of the things that I did this time around:

• Addded Dynamic title tag support
• Added tagging support
• Updated widget support
• Small changes to the sidebar css
• Added CSS support for the calendar widget
• Added CSS support for the tag cloud widget
• CSS tweaks for Safari compatability
• cleaned up the form code

If I haven’t gotten around to updating your favorite JTk theme, I promise to get to as soon as life permits. If you want it sooner rather than later, bribes are happily accepted.