ElmaStudio, a WordPress themes foundry to keep an eye on

It’s been a couple of months since I’ve discovered ElmaStudio‘s work.

First I fell in love with the (free) Ari theme. Then, while helping my friend Stef(igno) to update his (italian’s) blog we decided to invest  12€ in the Nilmini theme. Last week I provided (for free) to Ellen and Manuel an italian translation of that theme.

Then I’ve brought their Piha theme too just in time to see the previews, and later on the final release, of Nori. Nori aims to be (and probably is) the first WordPress theme out there developed mainly and in first place for mobile devices’ browsers, and later ‘adapted’ to normal ones.

Since they put their money were their mouth is they’ve adopted it on their website and so I had the chance to see a real deployment of that theme and not just a 5 post wide demo. Here are the screenshots!

(the last one is what you see enabling the Reader feature in Mobile Safari). What do you think of the theme?

Let me know in the comments…

Spam attack

Since I begun posting more regularly on these pages I’ve noticed a huge boost on spam comments gathering.

Even if Akismet does it’s job in a magnificent way (accuracy over 99,7%) I’d like a different kind of ‘success’ on this personal project of mine.

As you can see spam is 6 times more than last year, while overall visits shows a linear pace:

Does this happen also to your blog on WordPress.com ???

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an historical overview of /home/koolinus

After yesterday’s graphical renewal of this weblog, thanks to my mania of collecting screenshots of things done in the past, I’ve gathered this $NUMBER of screenshots of this blog through the last three years.

Unfortunately I don’t have any (complete) screenshot of the twenty-eight based one (which has been THE look for at least two full years of this space).

What do you think ???

a new look

A week ago the fine pals at Automattic made available the CHUNK theme for free on the platform.

I fell so in love with it to decide to adopt it and, doing so, make some changes in the widget & pages area which now have been revamped a bit. Hope you like the result. Anyway leave me a comment or suggestion on how you would improve the browsability of the site!

Thanks in advance,
Nicola

WordPress.com seen on mobile devices’s browsers

Have you ever wondered how you blog, hosted on WordPress.com, would look on the browser of your smartphone?

Well, using an iPhone 3G my browser is Safari mobile and WP.com serves me pages through the WPtouch plugin.

Here’s how this site, after it’s look revamp, looks like:

One thing we can notice is that now the home page welcomes the visitor but does not show the content, or points him clearly to it. Guess I’ll have to resolve that!

playing with new themes

Recently WordPress.com guys are introducing some new themes to the platform. Even if there is a strong encouragement to use premium ones, I still find some free ones to be worth an evaluation.

So, after a short period with TwentyTen, I’m now using this one: duster.

WordPress.com, a little easter egg

I was uploading a media on my WordPress.com space and then, when it finished the system showed me this little movie:

hasselhoff

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does it happens to you too ?