My New Adventure

My good friend Brian Gardner took the headfirst entrepreneurial leap a couple of weeks ago (or at least the first step) and I’m officially announcing the same.

As of Jan. 2, 2008, I am taking the plunge, or leap, or whatever you want to call it … and going full-time with my web design business.

I’ve served in churches and in Southern Baptist life for almost six years now, so it’s definitely a huge step for me and my family. It was also extremely hard to tell my pastor as I loved serving under him. I learned so much from him … primarily, about being a godly man, a husband and a leader. Read more

Announcing RockinThemes.com: Free and Custom WordPress Themes

My friend Nathan Rice and I have started a new website/blog called Rockin Themes to release our free WordPress themes to the public and also to offer our custom WordPress design services.

So far Nathan and I have released five free themes, with more on the way:

  • RockinBlue - a 2 column sleek and simple theme that started it all (so far it’s got about 1,800 downloads)
  • RockinBlue3Col - a 3 column version ofRockinBlue
  • RockinBlue and Green - a funky 2 column transformation of RockinBlue
  • RockinBiz - a blue 2 column, highly customizable theme designed for businesses (and churches)
  • RockinBizRed - our biz theme, only with a classy red scheme.

Check out these themes at Rockin Themes … and be sure to bookmark the site and subscribe to the feed as more themes are on the way as we team up to offer quality themes.

Great WordPress Themes Designed Just for Churches: Tim at LivingOS

Tim at LivingOS has some additional comments on my reasons to choose WordPress for your church website.

Also, if you haven’t check out his free WordPress themes that ROCK for churches, you need to go there now. I really like how he’s laid out some of those templates.

Check out his list of WordPress-driven church websites.

I Just Released My Second WordPress Theme - Rockin Blue 3 Column

Based on the great results I got from my first public release WordPress theme, a 2 column simplistic layout, which I called Rockin Blue, I just released a 3 column version of it today with some tweaks that I hope will make it an even better theme.

Download the theme here.
Demo it here.

Also, if you don’t know it, I’m doing custom WordPress themes. Contact me for a quote for your personal blog or church website.