After enjoying doing a site for my first client so much, and since I absolutely love making WordPress themes (Although there are only two that I actually released, the one for my site and a friend's site's theme.) I'm debating where to start doing professional WordPress theme design like Brian Gardner and other theme celebrities do. Right now I'm still in the thinking phase, deciding whether or not I want start doing it. Also, don't expect any offers for theme design until I'm finished with 5 by 5 on the 5.

This is an idea that I thought of; I will release 5 free WordPress themes, with 5 stylesheets that can be used with all of the themes to change their color. So you could quickly change a stylesheet and your theme would turn a different color. All of the themes and stylesheets would be released gradually on days ending with a five (5, 15, or 25).

Firebug recently gave me this wonderful error, I found it quite...flattering. After about a half-hour screaming at the screen I figured out that I was trying to make a call to a JavaScript function included in the Prototype library, the problem was that the library hadn't been loaded yet, so my function call was looking for a function that did not exist. Or so I think. Anyway, the problem was solved by sacrificing a small animal to the JavaScript gods and putting the code in a function that was only executed once the entire document was loaded. I'm not sure if this workaround fully fixed it or I just got lucky with something, but I'm definitely going to look for some better ways to solve it in the near future.

A little parody on the whole "What would Jesus do?" thing, the WWDD in the title stands for "What would Dirk do?". Pretty simple, huh?

The Opportunity

Brian Gardner recently decided to give away a few copies of his excellent Revolution News Theme, a sub-theme of his quickly growing Revolution Theme. Although few know it, I'm acting as a managing editor of the most unknown online magazine on the planet, Revision Magazine. While still in the formative stages (We don't even have a single issue out yet!), I personally feel that there's a lot of potential to do something really useful and really cool with it. Kind of like a more formal Smashing Magazine, so to say.

The Question

So here's my request:

Dear Brian, Although you've likely already read the first part of the post, I'll give you a little summary of what it says just to annoy you. Although small, Revision Magazine has some potential, and having a high-quality theme such as Revolution News on our front-end would really give us the opportunity to form a great online magazine.

Thanks, Dirk Gadsden