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I can’t believe it, but I have finally finished my very first wordpress theme. I called it ‘Making It Web 2.0′ as it is a web 2.0 style theme.

I have to admit that when I first started out I felt like the picture. I could see the end, but it was quite far away. Now that it is completed, I am so proud of myself :p I have hand coded this theme with love and sweat from a .psd (photoshop) file and I am very very happy with the results.

It has taken me a long while, but I have spent every free bit of time I have had in the last 48 hours on it and it just came together.

The part that took the longest was the tweaking at the end, which of course I could have carried on doing forever … lol.

So you know what it looks like, I am using it here

You can use it on as many sites as you like and make any necessary modifications, but you must leave the footer link in place. I never understood all about the licence bits and pieces, I think it is creative commons, but I will look into it an confirm tomorrow.

If you would like to remove the footer link, please send me $10 via paypal to admin [at] onthenetdollars.com and let me know which sites you will be using it on.

I am going to be making it in more colours, so if you have any suggestions or preferences, please post them below for all to see.

Just fill in the form below to download it

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I was just getting ready to do part 3 to my viral marketing post when I thought I would try out a new theme that was part of a paid package. After taking note of all my widgets, the codes for them from the text widgets and disabling them (I always do this as in my experience, sometimes widgets get lost if the new template does not have two sidebars or if they are named differently) I installed the necessary plugins and the theme. Needless to say I was very disappointed, which is why I am back with this one.

On the whole the theme was good looking, a bit basic, but advertising everywhere that could not easily be changed. Also, the trackback url was not displayed, you know how this bugs me :).

A link in the footer is all the advertising you would get in a free theme, which is only fair as someone created it and are not getting a monetary reward. So, in a paid theme what would you expect? I expected a link to be in the footer that we could customise to include our affiliate link. This one was far from it.

The actual product in itself was not all bad. It was very good for beginners, so if you are one and would like to have a look at it give me a shout.

I have to get lots finished today as tomorrow is a bank holiday here in France, so will get the widgets back up later … hopefully

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All themes are not created equal.

Wordpress will work with a theme that has only an index.html and a style.css, but you can get penalised for duplicate content on your own site. Yes, you read it right, you can get penalised for duplication of your own original work. How unfair is that! With a Wordpress theme that has all the necessary files showing the correct information this will not happen.

I think that they should change the rules for themes and ensure that they do have all the required files, but as their own theme viewer has been down for many months it seems that they have more work than they can handle at the moment.

Below is an explanation of all the files that should be included in a wordpress theme …

style.css - this is the stylesheet which tells all the other files in the theme how to behave with regards to colours etc … and must also contain the information about you and your theme in the header

an example of the header is …

/*
Theme Name: XXX - Version 1
Theme URI: http://www.onthenetdollars.com
Description: 2-column widget-ready wordpress blog theme
Author: Kelly Ifrah
Author URI: http://www.onthenetdollars.com
*/

index.php - if this is the only file in the theme then it will contain all the necessary calling of tags (wordpress works on special tags being called from the database), but it should not be and should only hold the main content calling of tags and should also use the the_excerpt tag and not the_content tag to avoid content duplication

(the the_excerpt tag shows just part of the post and the the_content tag shows the full post)

comments.php - this is the file that tells the comment box and comments posted how to be shown

comments-popup.php - this file is only needed if the blog owner decides to use a popup comments box

single.php - this is the file that shows just one post when the permalink is clicked from another page or when someone goes there from a search

page.php - this is the file that shows an individual static page on the blog like the About Me page

category.php - this is the file that will show all all posts in a category and should use the the_excerpt tag and not the_content tag to avoid content duplication

author.php - this is the page that will show the details about an author

archive.php - this is the page that will show a category, an author, or a date and should use the the_excerpt tag and not the_content tag to avoid content duplication

searchform.php - this is the file that holds the form that is the search box, but it is included as a widget now in wordpress 2.5, so you will only need it if your theme is not widget enabled or if you want the search box to be in the main body of your blog and not in a sidebar

search.php - this is the page that will show the search results (you should be monetising this page and changing it every so often as this counts as new content)

404.php - this is the page that will show when someone does a search for a page that is not there (you should be monetising this page and changing it every so often as this counts as new content)

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