Indeed it has passed some time since I lastly posted here and I even forgot to present you my new portfolio website made with Wordress.  It is all because of my busyness with many projects and daily work in my life. Well happily I am here now and I would like to show you my website which you can visit and see here: www.alichorov.com

I will not go so much in a great details about it,  I think you can visit the website and see yourself how everything is looking and what I put on it.

It is basically holding most of my works there,  including photography, vector art, graphics design and web design in different categories. As I am having a lot of projects, I cannot post them all , but I am choosing the best.

In about page you can see a simple flash website which can give an idea for the visitors what I can do with flash.

Using contact page anyone that needs my help for any project can really easy reach me by sending message. I surely respond at the exact moment.

The website is made with WordPress and everything there is completely designed by me.

Please visit, review and I hope you like it.  I now continue work…

www.alichorov.com

Good day everyone !

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In the past 4-5 months I was working on this blog from time to time, as some of you may know, I prommised that I will build this blog from nothing and I will make a post and tutorials for everything I am doing here. Since now the design have been changed 3 times. At the beginning it was just a white space with only texts and no CSS or any images.

In the next image you can see the 3 themes I have designed and used here from the begining. They were just for learning me and my readers who need this basic info of designing and using themes for wordpress.

So after all this is the final theme. It will remain like this until I get bored with it. In the future you can expect a lot of posts here. Generally articles about design, some tutorials about my work, posts for inspiration,  sharing artwork and useful information mostly about design.

It take me some time to understand everything about Wordress, but now I can do a theme and use it here for 2-3 days. I am sure that if you looked at my tutorials you surely learned something. See ya in my next posts.

Feel free to ask me anything, I am here to answer you questions always.

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My second WordPress theme is called Fresh green and it’s now free for download. The 1st one you can find here: Simple elegant And all my themes will be in category themes of this site.

My next theme is also ready and I will start to work on it immediately after this post. it’s nice fresh and looks just cool. I have a lot of ideas to come after this theme.

The next theme will be the original for this web site and I am stoping with making video tutorials for designing themes. If I’ll make a tutorial they’ll be of another kind.This not means I’ll stop making themes, I will and I will just post them for free download here. But this will be in future, this web site will be transformed in a lot of ways, just as I promies..

Now here is the free Fresh green theme: Fresh Green Theme free download (117)

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I am continuing with my works on this wordpress blog again. I have made a little pause, having some other stuff to do and now I am back with new ideas.

It take some time for this tutorial to be done, the reason is I make the whole design in 1 tutorial this time. As I said I have promised I’ll made a change with my tutorials and that’s it. You should not wait for tutorials to come 1 by 1 but I decided to make it in on big tutorial.

So here it is: 2 videos, 5 minutes each will give you a brief explanation of how this theme was designed. It’s called Fresh green. Later on a new post I will post this theme for free download, but until then you can watch this tutorial, and why not try to make theme like this for wordpress too.

The best way for learning is practice, so why not try. Hope you find this tutorial useful…

First of all we should made the design for our theme in Photoshop. For this I have made this big tutorial in 2 parts, where you can see how I have designed this theme:

Part 1

Part 2

After your design is ready, the hard work comes…

Yes that was the fun part, next you should crop the theme, I have already make a tutorial for this and you can find it here: Crop Theme tutorial

In short. First you should crop the header background image. The search box image and search button, the post and sidebar background images. Also the footer and so on…

All this you can find in my earlier tutorial there.

After you crop the theme you should begin to work on the CSS and HTML. You can find all my tutorials which can help you about this here: Design WordPress Theme Tutorials

In short, you can begin with the header. Let me show you what’s new I have add in this theme:

For the header:

My old header was 1 div with fixed width and height where my logo and search box placed. In the new header I was having the need to add a background image. So I make a new div called Header wrapper where I placed the old Header div.

The Header wrapper CSS is like this:

#headerwrapper{
background: #9daa74;
width: 100%;
height:134px;
}

The header CSS is this:

#header{
background-image:url(images/header.jpg);
background-repeat:no-repeat;
width: 1200px;
height:134px;
margin-left:auto;
margin-right:auto;
}

The purpose of this is to make our header background in the center and the Header wrapper width to be infinite. In this way my header background will be always in the center and the wrapper green color will be at 100% of your browser window always no matter if you resize it or zoom in zoom out the page.

The search box

The searchbox is made with the same technique as in my  Design a simple search box and search button tutorial. The only difference is the image I am using are other.

The navigation.

It’s almost the same as the old one except I use another image which duplicate itself and the width is at 100%  also, so only the CSS is a little bit different:

#menupages{
width: 100%;
padding-top:3px;
height:31px;
background-image:url(images/navigation_img.jpg);
background-repeat:repeat-x;
border-bottom:3px solid #cebb95;
font-size:11px;
font-weight: bold;
margin-left:auto;
margin-right:auto;
}

#menupages li{
display: inline;
margin-right:1px;
color:#000;
height:30px;
width: 75px;
}

#menupages li a{
color:#000000;
display: inline;
float:left;
height:25px;
width: 75px;
line-height:0px;
padding:5px 5px;
text-transform:uppercase;
}

#menupages li a:hover, {
display:block;
background-color:#eeeeee;
color:#808b60;
}

#menupages li.current-cat a {
background:#79939a;
}

The posts area is much different from my first theme.

Every 1 of my posts have a rounded corners at the top and at the bottom. For that purpose I have made a new divs which i have placed in all of my pages like this:

<div id=”posttopimage”></div>

All the divs like content, tags and php which we need for our post to work is here

and at the end of this code is this:

<div id=”postdownimage”></div>

And Here is the CSS for this:

.posttopimage{
height:13px;
width:801px;
float:left;
background-image:url(images/post/post_img_top.jpg);
background-repeat:no-repeat;
}

.postdownimage{
height:13px;
width:801px;
float:left;
background-image:url(images/post/post_img_bottom.jpg);
background-repeat:no-repeat;
margin-bottom:7px;
}

The side bar is made with the same technique.

The last thing I want to mention in this tutorial is the footer. I wanted to make a 3 column footer for this theme, which I have made using tutorial. The tutorial for this you can find here: Tutorial: Add 3 Centered Columns to WordPress Footer and I just changed the CSS to fit my needs.

Well that’s all about this theme. In my next post I will give you this nice theme for free download. I will modify it a little bit. I hope you like it and feel free to share this post, to comment and ask questions, give suggestions, and tell me your critique.

You can download the the free PSD for this theme here: Fresh Green Theme PSD (134)

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Second WordPress theme from me.

The last few days I have worked on the new theme of this web site. I have choose this light soft colors green and very lightly orange almost yellow which I think are looking very good. The colors are good for the eyes and the rounded corners of the theme give it a very soft and beautiful look.

I will make a video tutorial in next few days about how I’ve done it and I will post it here for you. I’ll make a little bit of change with my tutorials. I’ll make them a little bit different from now, since I have explained the basics in my earlier tutorials, now I can skip some tips you already know.

In my next video tutorial I’ll show you: Design of the theme in Photoshop.

In another posts I’ll explain about my work with the template  here and the new things I have.  You can also wait for my new categories I will add here and new Inspirational posts. Hope you will like all this.

Here is the preview from my new theme:

A preview image and free download of the old theme you can find here:  Simple Elegant theme

You can compare the 2 themes and find which one you like more. I found the new one to look much much better and it will remain like that for a month then I’ll design a new one which will be better. I’ll also make some improvements to my current theme and I’ll add new features to it. I’ll explain everything when I done it.

Thanks for reading and I hope you like all this.

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For better design theme 1: Simple elegant is now available for free download.

This one was simple as I said. Next themes will be more professional and cool looking. Here is the preview of this one:

Download theme file now:

For better designs: Simple elegant theme (176)

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In this tutorial I’ll design a simple 404 error page for this web site as I promise. The design is very simple and it’s  purpose is to give some ideas to the newbies. Hope you will find it useful.

So after I have the design the only thing I will o is to add the image as a background from my CSS file and then center the text. It’s an easy stuff.

Here’s my design for this page. This is how I want it to look (example):

I’ll remove the text as I said and I’ll add it in my 404 php file.I need only this image for my background:

How to set this as a background in my 404 page. Let’s see what I’ve got.

I have a 404.php page. If you don’t have it you must create one, more about 404 pages you can find in wordpress web site. Here is the HTML which I have in my page:

<div id=”error”>
<h2>Error 404 – page you search for: Not Found!</h2>
Why not try to use our search box or go back to <a
title=”For better designs” href=”http://www.forbetterdesigns.com”>Home
Page</a>
</div>

In my CSS I will create a new style which name is ”error” like the name of my div. And there I’ll use this CSS:

.error {
text-align:center;
background-image:url(http://www.forbetterdesigns.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/12/4041.jpg);
background-repeat:repeat-y;
margin-top: 20px;
margin-right: 35px;
border: 1px dotted #ccc;
padding-top: 225px;
height:200px;
width:600px;
float:left;
}

And I am done with my simple 404 page. Hope you liked this and it will be in use for you. After this tutorial I will not make any new tutorials and adds for this theme. So what next? Next I’ll upload this theme for free download and then I’ll begin to design new themes for this web site. Every design I’ll make into a tutorial and I’ll upload it for free download after that. Stay with me, my designs are currently starting, This was just the begining for the newbie users of wordpress.

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In this post I want to give you this little tip I decided to use here in my blog. This is a blockquotes which are stylised with CSS and they can make your blog to look much nice.

For example you have some code HTML, CSS or whatever in your post and you want to make some border around it and maybe different background color.

Here is the code:

<blockquote>

<div style=”border: 1px dashed #5f5f5f; padding: 10px; background-color: #f2f2f2; margin: 5px;”><span style=”color: #333333;”>

Your text here

</span><span style=”color: #808080;”><span style=”font-style: normal; font-family: Georgia;”><em> </em></span></span></div>

</blockquote>

You see you can change the size of the border, the padding and background color and you can add your text. It will look exactly like mine. You can change this colors off course.

Hope this little tip will be in some good use for you.

If any question and comments I am here.

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In this tutorial I’ll make some minor design fixes to my page. First I’ll add some border to my posts then some icons to my sidebar. Watch the video to see how I have plan my little design fixes and drawing a small arrow pixel icon.

So after i have made this little plans I show in the video let me tell you what I have changed in my design.

First I added 1 px border to the posts in my CSS:

.post{padding: 5px 5px 5px 5px;min-height:100px;

width:600px;

float:left;

background:#eeeeee;

margin-top:7px;

border:1px dashed #ced8d9; – 1px border all around my post is here

border-bottom:3px solid #83b639;

}

Next I added a 1px dotted border bottom for all my lists in the sidebar and the arrow image from CSS again:

.sidebar ul ul li{padding: 0; line-height: 24px;border-bottom: 1px dotted #888888;  – dotted border

text-decoration:none;

background-image:url(images/sidebar/arrow.jpg);  – and the arrow image

background-repeat:no-repeat; – no repeat is important here

padding-left:10px;

}

After this is done, I added the folder icon also in my CSS:

.sidebar ul li h2{ height:25px;font-family: Georgia, Sans-serif;

font-size: 15px;

padding-left:25px;

text-decoration:none;

background-image:url(images/sidebar/folder.jpg);  – the folder icon image is here

background-repeat:no-repeat;

}

Well that’s all, I hope you’ve liked this tutorial and you learned some useful thing here.

I’ll wait for your comments If any. Stay with us folks next time I am planing to design 404 web page.

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As I promised I would tell you everything I am doing to improve this blog. Today I get decision to add a Twitter badge plugin to this web site. It’s actually very easy and almost everyone knows how to add this, it even have some instructions, but let me give you some little tips about it.

The little badge look good as it’s original colors and it is in very good place: usually on the right side of the page. But you can customise it a little bit. I am suggesting this: I will change the color of the badge similar to some of the colors from my web site.

I’ll use this color now: #628088 because I thing it looks good with the design. There have an option to change the badge position from the top. I thing I will not change this value a lot, maybe with 5-7 px will be good. And there have an option to stay in Let/Right. I always prefer to stay in my right side. It’s easy to click on it and easy to read it.

After that I should put the code of this badge right before the “BODY” end tag (</body>)

Ok let‘s see what will happen.

Tip: something that I should tell you about: When I activated the pluging from my Plugins settings and then pasted the new code, I get this error: Cannot modify header information

The solutions is to deactivate the plugin from your WordPress admin panel – Plugins and just paste the code you have in your page before the “BODY” end tag (</body>)

It will be still there and still working. If you get such error you can try that, it helps to me and I hope it will helps to you too.

It’s here, looks good and it works. Hope this tips are in some use for you and hope you like this. Feel free to post any replies.

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