Wouldn’t you want to blog every day for 29 days and be guaranteed a prize at the end? I would, and that is why I’ve accepted Eric Giguere’s One Page A Day challenge. I’m looking forward to getting my hands on his Uncommon AdSense e-book, and hope to be lucky enough to win his PLRSiteBuilder. I’m curious to see how and whether that tool works on a niche web site I’m planning to put up very soon.

Join in the challenge, and sign up by February 8 — not only does every one win, but it will do good for your blog to have not just daily posts, but quality ones at that.

As I mentioned in an earlier post, I thought I would make the WordPress theme I originally created for The Blog of Rugrats publicly available for everyone to download. Hopefully this will make a nice addition to the small collection of themes available for family- and children-oriented blogs.

The Rugrats WordPress Theme is a two-column theme created and distributed for free. Even though the theme does not depend on any plugin, it is widget-ready. Its content column is fluid according to your screen size. The current header can also be modified to suit your need in case you want to replace the whole thing with a transparent GIF image as I have done with my Blog of Rugrats site. It’s also tested with WordPress 2.3.2, and on Firefox, IE7 and Safari.

My only request is that the footer hyperlink to my site at WebGrrrl.net remain intact.

Download

To install the Rugrats theme, download the zipped file below, unzip it, and upload the directory named rugrats-pub to your wp-content/themes folder.

Rugrats WordPress Theme v.1.0 (as of 29 January 2008)
Rugrats Theme 1.0 demo

For the moment, any request for support may be done using the comment form in this post to get support. Once WordPress.net’s Theme Viewer is back up, I’d rather support requests be forwarded to that site’s Reply section.

Screenshots

Limitations

This theme can be used in any types of blogs and web sites except those that has anything to do with p0rn0graphic, s3xist and/or r@cist content.

Q&A

1. How do I modify the header from text to using image like in your blog?
   I’ll do a separate post on that and will even include a PSD file for you to use as starter, but until then, I hope you can do a little trial and error yourself first.
2. Do you accept donations?
   Yes, I would very much appreciate it. You may PayPal me in any amount to my e-mail address at info{at}cybernt{dot}net. Remember that this theme is free though, so you are under no obligation to donate.

Enjoy!

I was looking for a way to test my web site on Mac’s Safari browser without the hassle of installing an emulator, and found this cool online tool at BrowsrCamp. It’s so easy to use, and I got a decent screenshot of The Blog of Rugrats at a resolution of 800×600.

This is pretty useful if you just want to check whether your CSS works well on Macs. There’s an option for you to subscribe to its full service, which checks for almost everything else, even Javascript, DHTML, Ajax and Flash among a few. $3 for a two-day subscription ain’t that bad if you’re desperate for a tool like this, as long as you have a fast connection.