Posted on Sunday, 16th March 2008 by 
Bcarter
When I first announced One Million Pet Pics I promised a post or two about the tools that I used to set my new blog up.
I had some rules for choosing a theme for my new project. My first goal was to find a magazine type Wordpress theme that didn’t cost a fortune. I wanted to allow for multiple posts and pictures on the front page at once; basically I was looking for a magazine style. Having a featured pet was important, but having many pics on the front page was just as important.
My second rule, was I didn’t want every other blog out there to be using the same theme. Revolution has become a popular Wordpress theme this is available for sale, but there are tons blogs out there using it. I wanted our blog to be unique. After about 4 hours of searching, I kept coming back to the Jello-Wala-Mello theme from WP Designer. By the way, WP Designer is for sale if anyone is interested in buying an established blog. Anyways, the best thing about this theme was it was FREE and I don’t think it looks like a free theme, but if you disagree, feel free to let me know.
I really wasn’t looking for simplicity when it came to setting up my site and I’ll be honest with you, setting up this site wasn’t as simple as setting up Down On Our Luck. I’m not a programmer or designer, but I’m usually pretty good at looking at the code of a website and working backwards to figure out what needs to be changed in order to get the look I want. That’s pretty much what I had to do with this site. I didn’t get the whole Thumbnail and Thumbnail-full custom fields at first, but after the first 3 posts using these fields has become second nature.
We are going to be looking for lots more pics, so if you have a pet you’d like to see featured hop on over and submit your picture.
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Tags: blogging, One Million Pet Pics, Online income
Posted in Blogging | Comments (4)
March 16th, 2008 at 11:38 am
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March 16th, 2008 at 3:14 pm
1 million pet pics? That’s some target.
Are they all going to be pictures you’ve taken?
March 16th, 2008 at 3:17 pm
Ahh, sorry, I just spotted what you said at the bottom of the post.
I use revolution theme. I agree it’s becoming ore and more popular. But, it’s a great theme for customising. I’ve ‘’slowly” been re designing the revolution tech theme. It look totally different but still functions the same.
March 17th, 2008 at 6:04 am
I don’t have anything against the revolution theme, right now I don’t have a lot of time to customize my theme so I needed something semi-original right out of the box.
Thanks for stopping and commenting.