I have tried playing around with some different file archiving tools and basically have come back to 7Zip again as it seems to be the most functional and useful one I can find.  Plus it is hard to beat the price.  Well if you are worried about the way that yours looks (yes I know I am kinda a skinning crazy person) there is a theme manager out there that you can use to stylize your 7zip application.  I have attached the latest version as well as the website below:

Latest Version: Theme Manager 1.1

Website: 7 Zip Theme Manager

This is probably one of the biggest things that I struggle with when tweaking a CSS file.  What font-family to use and how it will work.  Well finally I ran across a website FontTester that will allow you to choose the font family and see the difference.  This should save a whole bunch of time when creating or editing new sites.

So last night I was bored and decided to redo my entire website (again). I just changed the theme about a week ago, but the more I dug into it the less I liked it and decided I would spend a little more time redoing my blog. After picking a theme I put it on a local copy of Wordpress and started banging away. I started changing header images and fixing CSS issues with AJAX overlaps and image overlaps and fixing up a few other issues I noticed.  This is usually pretty typical for themes I have found in the past.  You get what you paid for and because all these themes are free I guess that would make sense.

One of my co-workers turned me onto Firebug which is a Firefox plugin that reads the CSS and breaks it out into a tree structure so you can see what is really going on behind the scenes with formatting.  This application saved me probably about 2 days of frustration searching through the CSS and the PHP files trying to find the correct classes and div’s to edit to make it look how I want it to.  The program allows you to edit the CSS on the spot so you can see if what you thinking works…this is great for things like spacing or overflow or text size.  This application is a must have for any web developer or anyone who likes to tweak their Wordpress themes to get the most out of them.

I just came across another site with some fancy Wordpress Themes: WPDaddy can never have too many sites to choose from when looking for a good template.  Now I just need to find an easy CSS editor to play with the templates a little easier

Well in helping my sister with her new website she came across a theme that I haven’t really looked at too much.  This theme basically has all the options that a premium paid theme does but doesn’t cost a single dollar.  It is available on the WordPress theme directory at Wordpress.org It is great all the settings are under a page that comes up under the presentation button in Wordpress.  From there you can control all the CSS settings.

The settings allow you to change the layout from fluid to set, you can change the colors super easily, you can change the number of columns in a click of a page.  Also the header is a rotating image and looks at a specific folder so you can rotate image headers super easily.  Also sections are super easy to hide just by setting values to zero

Not that it is very difficult to do this yourself with the CSS file but this makes things really really easy to modify a site (ie…making it quick!).  I am currently using it on two of my sites (BloomIntoYoga, JMRossPhotography Blog)  Chances are I would have done my ARP site that way if I would have known about this theme earlier!

Atahualpa 3.2 Theme

Yup….another day another wordpress theme site!

FreeLayouts.com

Looks like Wordpress now has their own theme directory which is nice while searching for a new theme.  I typically change themes once a year but I am currently in search of one for my ARP website.  I have been jumping through a few of my old websites and following the links on the bottom of links that I have used in the past.  Themes are funny because it is really had to find one that fits exactly what you are looking for.  Plus after picking one you have to spend about 2 days getting it to look how you want and probably play with some tags and then re-enable Ajax settings so its a commitment to change.

New theme directory can be found here:  Wordpress Theme Directory

So this is a modification to the Architect Digest theme that I found a little while ago.  I had to make a lot of changes to the theme files so that it would show the full posts for the archive pages and search pages.  I also had to add in the Ajax stuff and change the header.  I played around with the CSS a little here and there to make links stand out a little more.  All in all it took me about 2-3 hours to flip over to the new theme.

I decided it was time to update the picture in the header to the new S4 because its a great looking car and matched my color scheme pretty well.

Revolution 2 is a bunch of very nice free wordpress themes

Attach a different template layout to page posts in Wordpress