Vikiworks™ Studio

First of all, a big thankyou to everyone who took part in supporting me to release another Wordpress theme, special thanks to ququhu who brought us a revised design and it work with IE8 (details in Chinese here).

V5 theme was actually based on my previous theme, if you’re following my resurrection theme you’ll know that making a theme wasn’t easy for me, after spent sometime and a few rounds fighting with codes, removed any improper stuff now here it comes. Take a look at this snapshot below:

Approx. 900KB (total 591 downloads)
Bonus PSDs pack Approx. 2MB (total 196 downloads)

Some features included

- An easy to navigate slideshow
- Flickr and delicious enabled
- PSD format source file
- Work with WP 2.5

To avoid getting any errors, please make sure that you have the following plugin(s) installed before activate this theme:

- Flickr RSS
- Del.icio.us JS
- Get recent comments
- Simple tags
- Twitter tools
- WP-Pagenavi
- WP lightbox 2 (Optional)

If you like/hate it, please let me know. I’m actually thinking of something simple and clean that can be suitable for the most bloggers, any comments are welcome.

Just got my new Nikon 18-200VR lens for my camera this weekend, it looks solid and flexible, supposed to be one of the best traveling lens ever. Personally I’m a very much Nikon guy… hey, Nikon, pay me!!

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I have spent a couple of hours to imitate it with Photoshop, now here is the final icon, pretty cool uh? If you’re also an amateur or fans, grab it and enjoy…

Imitation tools:
Adobe Photoshop
Diet coke
A pack of cigarettes…

There are tons of heart shape style icon all over the web, the purpose of making this just for personal work and try to do something different from others.

Get a free PNG format - 16, 32 and 64 px sized RSS icon in heart shape with multiple colors. ( 390 times downloaded).

CSS is tricky and powerful. It’s easy to create a block style menu with CSS, the tricky part of put a short description under each menu is use SPAN tag, just copy the following to your markup file:

Thanks for Adam pointed out that we don’t need to be wrapped by divs. I made an update with more clean codes here.

<ul class="menu">
<li><a href="#">Menu01<br /><span>Short desc</span></a></li>
<li><a href="#">Menu02<br /><span>Short desc</span></a></li>
<li><a href="#">Menu03<br /><span>Short desc</span></a></li><
/ul>

then you need to put all these to your css file:

ul.menu { margin:0;padding:0; }
ul.menu li { display:block;padding:0; float:left;text-align:left;margin-right:2em; }
ul.menu li a { color:#fff;font:bold 14px georgia;text-decoration:none;line-height: 1.3em; display:block; }
ul.menu li a:hover { color:#ffc300; }
ul.menu li span { font:11px arial; color:#666; margin:0; }
ul.menu li span:hover {color:#999;}

Is that simple! and you can download this zipped sample file below. If you’re interested to see more CSS based menu designs, Smashingmagazine has a great collection and you check out those great design from all over the world.

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Vikiworks Plasma Display Panel iconset, combined with some elements from Sony Bravia, Sharp Aquaos. I’ve also put the Garfield “Puss in bootson” (thanks Niki for correct me) the screen to make it looks cute.
Tool: Adobe Illustrator, Adobe Photoshop

Wow, what incredible busy day!!
I’ve put myself on creating some new styling, which is very diff from my usual direction, a lots brushes/vector shapes to outline something fancy and sleek. Maybe it’s time to get myself a Wacom pen

Tools: Adobe Photoshop, Illustrator
Vector shapes: Vecteezy

I’ll be sharing with you anything that I find creatively interesting, along with something related to my personal work.

I’m so exciting to know that Problogdesign has made a review on the design of vikiworks, big thanks to their exclusive evaluation.

Updates Sep 16: I’ve fixed the comment issue when you’re using IE6/7, also I remove ’submit button’ instead of with default one, now it works fine. Big thanks to Steve who did a lot coding work to improving this theme and thanks for all your comments and feedback, I really do. I also attached a background image with that curved shadow, please download the zip file.

As I promised you earlier that I will release my current WP theme (I call it ‘resurrection’ and you can call it whatever you like) to public download. Well… here it is.

I have removed some of my personal stuff such as my cellphone, PSP, Yankee hat etc from background image instead of something else, you can change it in anyway by doing a little photoshop work.

The following plugins are required for this theme and something you should do after you’ve downloading: Read more→

I am using a flat panel monitor (Dell E196FP) as my primary working screen. I’ve made an excact imitation (with a sticker on it to make it more real) and release it to download.

If you were just like me, impressed with its ultra slim style, now it’s time to grab it and put it on your dock, it’s totally free and you can do whatever you want with it

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