Friday, April 6, 2012

Contrbute Your Lansing-based Site!

Firstly, let me apologize for that last post that went out, that was an accident and had no relevance to Lansing per se... so my bad.

Nextly, I wanted to let you know about a pretty cool site for Lansing-based websites called Lansing Link Directory. It's a website that lists and categorizes Lansing-based websites of nearly any varierty. If you live in Lansing or are from Lansing your website is welcome on the site!

Eventually, the link directory will likely show links from a plethora of categories including government sites, schools sites, Lansing bloggers, Lansing businesses, Lansing news, and many other categories.

You are free to contribute Lansing-based sites that you enjoy even if they are not yours as well! To submit a website click here. Also, feel free to share the site with any other peeps from the 517. I'm sure they'll appreciate it.

 

Tuesday, April 3, 2012

Introducing There is a Theme For That

I know it seems like I start a new website every week or two. That's because I do :)

This weekend, I finally decided to embark on a project I've long been meaning to get started. It's a website that is all about using Wordpress do things other than blogging. There are so many themes available that I almost every site I've thought up can be built using a theme already in existence with a few tweaks and/or plugins. Anyway, the website is called, "There is a Theme For That" and I just wrote my first post comparing the four local business directory themes for WP.

The website categorizes WP themes based on what they can be used for and also captures creative uses of Wordpress themes the larger WP community. And by "creative" I really mean anything other than a personal blog, or better yet, any theme that was meant for one thing that was used for another. Okay, so I may need to rework the definition a bit, but hopefully you see where I'm going?

There are themes that can be used from everything from Classified ads, to auction sites, to Groupon clones, to review sites, to directories, to cataloging information, to wiki pages, to just about anything else. I'm trying to aggregate this information into one place that focuses on answering any question about makeing a website with, "There is a theme for that."

PS ThereIsAPluginForThat is coming soon! As is the rest of a Wordpress network that I've been stewing over. O internet, how I love you.