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PatternWall.com: Free Patterns for Your Twitter

The default Twitter themes are boring. Some might say Twitter is boring, but that’s completely besides the point. Finding a great background to separate yourself from the thousands of others hasn’t always been easy, until I found PatternWall.

There are countless sites around interwebs that are offering customized Twitter themes, but most of them are more worried about promoting themselves on every theme used. PatternWall.com is a Tumblr-based site that displays about 100 different tile-able patterns that can be used on any Twitter account and/or any other projects you see fit. The best part is there is no sign-up and you just click, download, and you’re done.

There are a number of styles of patterns including plaid, grunge, shapes, and stripes. I really wish the patterns were in a higher resolution. Some of them are very blurry and even unusable, but I can only expect that to change with time. This is a new site and I’m interested to see if they’ll add more patterns periodically and/or how they will fix the quality issues plaguing the site currently.

PatternWall.com

You can check out my new Twitter theme here.

Do you have a gnarly Twitter theme? Link it in the comments

Tags: themes, twitter

Needing Some Help

I know I’ve been gone for a while, but an allergy/pollution-induced cold can stop almost everyone. I’m not here to dwell on my absence, but I do need some help. I’m looking for a new WordPress theme. I think I have exhausted my Pixkit theme to the extent that it no longer looks or works like it once did. I’ve screwed around with the code one too many times it’s become riddled with errors.

I’ve spent a couple hours digging through different websites trying to a theme that will fit my blog. There are so many terrible themes that it’s become a chore to find a worthy theme. I’m willing to buy a premium theme, but I’ve yet to find anything.

I am now asking for your help. I need some help finding a theme and with help by my readers I hope to make the process a tad bit easier. Here is what I’m looking for:

White background, black text

2-3 column theme

Customizable header/logo

Relatively minimal design

No large pictures in header or blog

No Magazine Layouts please

If you do have an idea for a WordPress theme (premium or free) please leave a link in the comments. If I do decide to use your recommended theme, you’ll receive a $10 Amazon Gift Card.

Tags: contest, free, premium, themes, wordpress