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FREE Download – Genesis For Absolute Beginners

December 29, 2011 By Elizabeth

For the past year I've been using the Genesis Framework plus the Lifestyle Child Theme, and now I'm excited to share that StudioPress has released a FREE PDF guide called Genesis For Absolute Beginners that explains exactly how to install and set up the Genesis framework for WordPress, plus child themes to make your blog or website look amazing, run smoothly, get found in search results, and more! Here's an excerpt from Genesis For Absolute Beginners: Think of Genesis (the framework) as your car, including the engine, the transmission and the thousands of parts that make it run. The dozens of child theme designs from Studiopress are the paint job that make your car so damn hot. You pick the color, the stripes, and an airbrushed coyote howling at the desert moon (if that’s your thing). Here’s where the car analogy breaks down a bit: the really cool thing about using child themes is the ability to change the “paint job” of your site in minutes, without trashing the … [Read more...]

Clean, Simple, Restful To My Eyes

May 26, 2011 By Elizabeth

I was up until 1:30 am this morning with about 17 tabs open in Chrome and Firefox, trying to find theme colors that worked in both systems and matched my flower logo, until my eyes felt like they would pop out of my head. And then about an hour ago, while looking up yet another question on the Studiopress forum, I saw it. An announcement that Studiopress released a free child theme for Genesis, named Georgia. I installed it, and suddenly it was like my brain could rest. Things are very stressful here at home right now (nothing new, just the usual money and kids and life stuff), and I just don't need to fuss. A million thank yous to Brian Gardner and the Studiopress team for releasing Georgia. Free, Clean, Simple, Elegant - it was like they read my mind. I will put my purple flower logo up in the title as soon as I figure out how. See, when IZEA gave me a free custom theme, it came with no files and no support. The purple flower logo was incorporated into the entire header … [Read more...]