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Tips on choosing rugs

brokencode — Wed, 30 Jul 2008 22:53:02 +0000

When you decided to buy rugs but you don’t know what sort of rug will work best for you and the environment in which it will be placed, or maybe you know the sort of rug that you would like but you’re having difficulty choosing a design. The following is meant to be a practical guide to help you discover issues that you may or may not have taken into account when choosing area rugs.

Space and environment are key issues to consider when it comes to choosing a rug, have you thought enough about the space that it will be in and the effect that the design you have chosen will have on that space?

The likelihood is that it has been thought about but not fully considered. Rugs can either open a space up or make a space seem a lot cosier. Depending on the atmosphere, look and feel that you wish to create, there are several key elements to take into account. If you want to create the feeling of spaciousness then light colours and simple patterns are the way forward.

Light colours and simple designs can create an amazing feeling of expansion and really open up a space, however if you are looking to make a space cosier then rugs that have darker colours and more ornate or dense patterns tend to work better. Featured to the right are two great rugs featuring ornate dense patterns for making that space seem more cosy. Most traditional rugs will lend themselves well to this job with their ornate dense patterns however there are also many cheap rugs that will effectively make a space more cosy. Don’t limit yourself to just traditional if it’s a modern rug that you would prefer.

Believe it or not size is one of the most fundamental decisions to make when it comes to choosing your rug. The wrong size can make a room look cluttered or far too small.

Inspiring Mellow Yellow WordPress Theme

brokencode — Wed, 18 Jun 2008 17:24:20 +0000

Inspiring Mellow Yellow 1.0 by Brokencode

Mellow Yellow” is a song and single release by Donovan. It reached #2 on the Billboard charts in the US in 1966. The song was rumored to be about smoking dried banana skins, which was believed to be a hallucinogenic drug in the 1960s, but this rumor has since been debunked.[Wikipedia]

Features

Clean grid-based design
SEO Structure with Perfect Score
Support for WordPress widgets
A three-column home page
Associating images/thumbnails with recent posts
Easy CSS classes

Preview

Not yet available. Tell me when you already installed this theme. I will list your blog here as sample ;)

Download

Click here to download : inspiring-mellow-yellow.rar - inspiring-mellow-yellow.zip

Support

Please don’t e-mail me directly with support requests. It’s a much better way to catalog support requests and solutions to problems using below comment form ;)

Usage And Customisation

Custom fields are very useful for extending the functionality of a WordPress-powered Web site. Each custom field consists of two parts, a key and the value for the key. A functionality provided by Inspiring mellow-yellow WordPress Theme is based on custom fields.

Inspiring mellow-yellow creates thumbnail to images uploaded by you and place it in cache folder. As this folder needed for the image resizer, make sure that this folder is CHMOD 777.

Adding images to the Post

Every post uses at least one image for thumbnail on homepage and random images on sidebar, which can be of any size. When creating a new post, you need to specifiy the URL for this image. The easiest way of doing this, is the following:

Upload your chosen image through the Upload panel in Write > Write Post (in your Wordpress admin panel)
Once uploaded, click on the “Edit” link and copy the URL field.
Scroll down to Custom Fields (in the same window in your admin panel) and enter the “Key” as “image” and paste the image loca8on URL into “Value”. Click “Add Custom Field”.

This Inspiring Mellow Yellow download pack is include Inspiring Dark WordPress Theme. To switch your Inspiring Mellow Yellow to Inspiring Dark Theme :

Open file header.php
Edit line 7 to : /inspiring-dark.css” />

Inspiring Dark WordPress Theme

brokencode — Mon, 16 Jun 2008 07:45:54 +0000

Inspiring Dark 1.0 by Brokencode

Dark designs can be really stunning. In Web 2.0 designers try to do their best to impress their visitors and in many cases they definitely succeed in doing so. [Smashing Magazine]