Here I am, 3 am Sunday morning, can’t sleep - already slept 3 hours after having 5 St Pauli Girls and a great dinner. Compulsive obsessive, that’s my general personality description according to my girl friend, and I’ll have to agree.

My new home, this weblog at WordPress, does make my internet presence a lot more comfortable. I simply LOVE this design. I never thought it’d be like this. So now, maybe I’ll put up more posts - maybe not: I’m compulsive obsessive and I just might find another new endever.

My new home here is also a double-wide: with dual monitors. I feel that it’s a necessity for a web designer asa designer usually has 3 to 5 programs going at the same time. Then with a few folders open and a bunch of files scattered all over, I don’t see how this job can be done efficently on one screen.

After my eMachine blew up, I saw the opportunity to revamp my workplace and I hope somebody at the Goodwill will enjoy the 19″ CRT I’ll be donating. And that’s what started this transformation.

New monitors AND a new PC - but I was a bit leery of this replacement; a “Great Quality Systems” machine made by Fry’s Electronics. With only 512MB of ram, still it performs better than the 3 year old 1GB eMachine that didn’t have a dual processor - this’ll have 1.5GB to 2GB soon.

With a year’s training behind me, now feeling confident enough to make websites for others, my next step is to learn active content. I think that WordPress with it’s PHP format will come to be a great learning tool.

So what about this design, did I make it myself? No, but I could have designed the graphics for it. And the PHP pages? Maybe by this time next year. One thing curious about this theme: there is no credit for the designer. I looked in the source codes and it’s not there, either - not sure if I can remember where I got it from, I was all over the place when I was looking for this.

Starting out at Theme Viewer, I traveled through Mashable’s 30+ WordPress 3-Coluimn Themes, on to doshdosh’s Adsense Optomized Themes, then browsed through the themes at mandarinmusing. Venturing off track to a few sites having 2 - 10 themes displayed (N.Design Studio for 1), I browsed to Smashing Magazine - their “83 Beautiful Wordpress Themes You (Probably) Haven’t Seen” But that’s not where I found this either (presently searching through my history pages).

Kaushal Sheth also has a great variety of themes to sort through. Could have been WordPress Theme, maybe it was themesBase.com, CSS Design Templates, or … FOUND IT - Themebot.

Well, at least I gave myself a run-for-it - had to, I’m compulsive obsessive!

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