After making more than 10 themes for Wordpress I have learnt various lessons. I would like to share it with all.

1. Create Universal theme :
   The theme which will be more universal will gain more popularity than those which are very specific. My Abstrakt and Blue Horizon theme are more popular than Greetz or Anthosia just for the same reason
2. Create simple theme requiring less customisation:
   I have seen so many blogs on this www using my themes but haven’t change their links ( still is link1 , link2 ) . I asked a few and they replied they didn’t know how to edit them.
3. Make it accessible:
   I guess this is golden rule that almost all designer follow nowadays. But last week I had one incident regarding Mac Safari accessibilty. Strangely one of my custom theme wasn’t working well. Relentless hours of working I finally solved it. I never thought about those browsers before
4. Interact with users:
   This new year 2006 I have started this new tradition of visiting my user’s site and appreciating their work or just exchanging friendly Hello’s. What I do is do a quick search of my domain www.kaushalsheth.com on www.technorati.com and through that visit my user’s site. This has immensely helped me learn a lot and perhaps increased my popularity to some extent. At the same time gained respect for them.

Hope this lessons help you to make your theme popular and perhaps help you in selecting a subject for your theme.

First of all Happy New Year to all my visitors. Wish you a Happy and Prosperous New Year.

Ok it might not be new for all but I found it just yesterday. ShortStat is really cool plugin for Wordpress and working well with my Wordpres 2.0.

It gives detailed statistics about visitors visiting the site , Referrers , Search Strings , Platforms. I love it simply because it was just a plug and play plugin and gave me just the kind of statistics I needed about my site.

As download is made available now of latest version of wordpress 2.0 , I will soon upgrade my site to make it powered by wordpress 2.0.

Also I am working on redesigning my site, so get ready to have a look to my new redesigned site. This time the theme just for me

Well finally I found time to watch movie Apaharan today. It is an awesome movie . I was told to describe it to one of my friends. I described it as Intense, 3 Hour movie , no songs, proper sequence , better than Sehar to him. So all those who haven’t yet seen the movie go get yourself ticket and watch it.

Well finally as blogged before in my earlier post am free. So have done a couple of changes to my site.

1. First of all I got myself a theme viewer exclusively for my themes and installed it on a sub domain of http://wpdemo.kaushalsheth.com
2. Added donation button . So people who are using my themes and are happy with it , please do drop in some cash so that I can continue my work with ease and pay for my hosting
3. Last but not the least have started working on themes ( East View already Released today ) again and be sure to check in here now often since this place is geared up for releases again this December