Here is my 2nd WP design. I know it’s not that good but hey a learned a lot while creating it. So first of all I’d like to thank the following sites for the knowledge that I’ve learned:

• CSS Tricks - For the screencasts and the tutorials. I have truly learned a lot from them from CSS to Photoshop to WP Design. Thank you!
• WP Designer - My first ‘How to create WP Themes Mentor’. I learned the basics of creating WP themes from this site.
• Pearsonified - This is one cool blog. Not only did I learn some stuff like how to create random image headers (which I modified see here), his posts are words of wisdom!
• Jehzlau Concepts - What I learned from here is not using the WP built-in function of displaying pages. I opted to display page links manually like in this site.
• John Chow - Used the ‘ad within the content and above the fold’ style. The only difference is he is not using Adsense for that particular ad.
• Randell.ph - I really like that big footer section, looks cool.
• Macuha - The Twit and Plurk this post without a plugin! Need I say more?
• Wordpress - And of course to WP. Need I say more again?

Here are the features of the new design worth mentioning:

• Has a sitemap automatically generated by a plugin for SEO purposes
• New random image header
• RSS subscription more prominent
• Uses google search instead of the WP search
• Has my blurred picture at the footer

Yup, I know the design has a lot to improve. I’m jotting the things that needs improvement from my point of view.

• Redefine blockquote style
• Change navigation links image
• Style comments section
• Create fav icon
• Improve overall design
• Style Archive section
• Create individual pages for 4 category sections
• Embed Google search results into Phawville page
• Add Twit/Plurk, etc… this post functionality
• Put all code examples in a textarea and not under a blockquote
• Improve the content entry section style
• There is something wrong with the LI tags, they are not indenting properly. I’ll check it out next time.

The list above is not at all exhaustive, so if you can think of of more, please leave a comment. Thank you!!

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