In addition to free WordPress themes and advice, Rose City Gardens is now offering web design and hosting.

Pay for one year’s hosting in advance, and get a website customized to your business or specifications, FREE!

Your site will include:

• One year of hosting on a lightning fast Dual Xeon server, with the space and bandwidth you need to run your site.
• Email and cPanel control panel
• WordPress or other CMS installed on your webspace
• Extra care taken to secure your WordPress install, and keep it secure against spammers and hackers
• Your choice of theme, customized to your specifications
• Your theme, no matter if it’s one of mine or another open source theme, will be optimized for best search engine results.
• Your installation will be customized with essential plugins to be search engine friendly and a pleasure to use!
• Daily virus scans and backups of files and database
• 24/7 customer support
• On site help with link building, networking and miscellaneous issues

For a limited time, I’m offering all this for $75.00. On Monday, the price goes up to the normal $150/year.

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I like it, I do! But I won’t be using it and here’s why:

While it’s very convenient, I would have to go back into the admin control panel anyway - to enter tags, and most importantly - to use All-In-One-SEO for custom titles, meta description, etc.

Those who manage many blogs might find this software indispensable - I’ll stick with the admin panel, thank you!

I built an Amazon store and stocked it with the latest WordPress and blogging books - check it out! I didn’t use a plugin, but instead made a modified template file and included my aStore in an iframe. I’ll make a video or screencast tutorial soon on how to do it - it was super easy!

I am also getting VERY CLOSE on completing the Tickled Pink theme - you should expect an announcement in the next few days. I don’t know if I”ll submit it to the Theme Codex or not - or even whether they will accept it, but I’ll have it available for download soon. I have to finish the accompanying Simple:Press theme, Pinkish, as it will be part of the package.

I’ve also got another theme in the works that uses NextGEN Gallery - right now it’s just a bare outline in Photoshop and I’ll have to flesh it out but it won’t be long before it’s a nice theme for a gallery or portfolio site!

And - nothing to do with WordPress or with the Gardens, but: Congratulations to Senator Barack Obama on winning the Democratic nomination!

I’ve been in a happy daze all week that’s only partly due to the Vicodin I got from the clinic on Monday, when I nearly broke my hand while wrestling with the dog. Since I discovered SimplePress™ by Andy at Yellow Swordfish, I’ve been on a mission, hunting down CC and GPL icons to use in the Garden’s forum skin. In the process I created a couple of GDKs to speed up the process for future buttons, and am offering them for download here, along with a finished set.

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I’ve upgraded the Gardens to the new versions of WordPress and bbPress. While WP 2.5 rocks my world, bbPress does not. I want a much tighter integration, so I’m pitching the hours I spent making this theme for bbPress, and retiring those forums. For now. I may change my mind later.

Onward and upward! I used SimplePress from Stuff at Yellow Swordfish. I’ve already installed it at BK2K Web Design and it’s quite nifty!

Soon to come - a new theme release, and tutorial movies! Stay tuned…