AdesBlog.com

Let’s say you want to have your own website. You tell freelance webdesigner to design a nice looking website, and you give him some websites as references.

Usually you would just pass him the URLs and tell him that you like this part of this particular website and that part of another website etc.

Better way is with Flowgram

So how Flowgram.com can improve this process? With flowgram you can add live pages to your presentation, make comments on the surface of those live websites, add photos, add powerpoints and even add RSS feeds. Once you are done with your presentation, you can just send him a link that looks something like this http://beta.flowgram.com/p/f4xhdtkgp7usnv

You can also use it to bookmark sites, like what I did on the above link. I have put together a list of wordpress related websites.

Flowgram is in Beta

Flowgram is still in beta, so you need to apply to get an invitation. I do have 10 invitations though, I can give them to the first 10 commenters for this post. I had subscribed a while ago, but it too many usability issues to mention it on the blog. Now it looks quite stable.

URL: beta.flowgram.com

Nice looking magazine theme for free (see screenshot to the left), view demo here. You can download the theme here.

I have put it on my shared folder as well, under WordPress Themes. In case the source goes offline, you can always download from my folder.

This is like a freelancer’s dream come true. You pay one time and access all the premium wordpress themes designed by professionals.

WooThemes is a project launched by four respected WordPress theme designers - Adii, Magnus Jepson, Mark Forrester and Elliot Jay Stocks.

Pricing starts from $225 for 3 months subscription, and $375 for 6 months. This is a developer license, suitable for freelancers.

However, if you - as a blogger would like to subscribe and change your own blog’s theme often, then the license for 3 months costs $150, and for 6 months $250. It’s called single user license.

I think the single user license is a bit overpriced, don’t you think? Because who will change their blog design every 3 months? or even every 6 months? I think yearly plan would be a good idea for this.

http://www.woothemes.com

With this WP-Theme called Prologue (yes it was difficult for them to zip the file) you can turn any wp-based blog into a community-twitter-like-blog (see pic below).

I have zipped the file and put it at http://www.adesblog.com/files.php, see Fav WP Themes folder.

You can see Prologue powered blog demo here.

Basically how it works is when someone has the ability to post to a blog they see a short form at the top of the home page with a post box and tags. There they can post short messages about what they’re doing.

Below the posting box is a list of everyone’s latest tweet or message, with their Gravatar next to it. You can click on an author to see all their messages, or a tag to see all of the messages in a given tag (which we use for projects). There are RSS feeds for everything: the entire prologue, each author, each tag, and even combination or searches can be subscribed to in your RSS reader. source

This theme is very suitable for like-minded group of people or friends to use it as a platform to communicate and stay updated with each other. You could use Facebook or Twitter for the same reason, but most of the time your Facebook and Twitter accounts get crowded with people you don’t even know.

So, if you want to create a twitter-like site for your friends only, then Prologue is — it!

This is one of the best free WordPress themes I have came across on the net. Since it is free, I thought I would share it with you guys.

It’s called Mimbo Magazine Theme. It was developed by Darren Hoyt (dot com).

Template looks great, it can also generate sub-menus as a drop down menu. You can see it in action here: view demo.

Real life example of a blog that is running on Mimbo is PlagiarismToday.com

P.S If you are looking for a better premium magazine theme, check out Revolution Theme. It’s the best so far on the net!