Premium WordPress Themes?

Nathan Rice on November 6, 2007

If you are looking for a good PREMIUM WordPress theme, why not check out my newest project, Proximity News Theme. Check out all the cool features. It won’t disappoint!

Although there has been quite a bit of “hoopla” over the recent announcement from Matt Mullenweg indicating that we could see a premium theme marketplace for WordPress.com users in the near future, I’m going to save the commentary on that front for another day.

Today, I want to focus on the now … the immediate … the present. What’s hot right now seems to be the business of selling “premium WordPress themes” for a small fee (usually around $60-$100 USD). This is a lucrative business because it opens the possibility of making many times what you could have made doing a single custom theme, for about the same amount of work. Read More

Any Good WordPress Podcasts?

Nathan Rice on October 10, 2007

Over the last week or so, since buying my new iPod Nano, I’ve been resubscribing to all my old favorite podcasts … for research of course 🙂

But I’ve been severely disappointed in the underwhelming number of WordPress podcasts … that is … podcasts that discuss WordPress topics, WordPress themes, etc.

Yes, I have subscribed to the Official WordPress podcast … that’s a given (is it actually “official”?).  But, with all due respect, it’s not very entertaining … unless of course Lorelle is on 🙂

I did a search in iTunes for WordPress and it returned quite a few results, but other than the official podcast, none have been updated in a VERY long time.

Could it be that there’s a market for an entertaining WordPress podcast?

Welcome to NathanRice.me

Nathan Rice on August 29, 2007

Over the past 10 months or so, I’ve jumped head first into the blogging world.  I started a personal blog in October … and little did I know the opportunities that little website would bring me.

Here I am nearly a year later, and it’s been a wild ride!

Back in February, I decided to take a shot at releasing a WordPress theme.  It was ugly, and it was rough, but I saw then how my pre-existing knowledge of web development could translate easily into theme development.  After that first theme, Cory Miller and I started RockinThemes.com, where we have released over 40 free WordPress themes.  We also started a custom theme and website development company and have done very well so far.

We’ve since invited new designers to join us at RT, making it a true multi-user theme release hub.

I’ve spent most of my time in the last few months running RockinThemes, but recently I got the idea that I needed to launch out with a site of my own where I would develop and support a small handful of my most popular themes.

And hence this site was born.

I won’t get too heavy on the details at the moment, but for the time being I’m thinking this will be a place where users can personally interact with me as I write tutorials on web design, WordPress development, and blogging.

As you can tell, the design is a work in progress.  I’ll be working on it sporadically for the next few days and weeks.

But for now, enjoy the new blog!  I hope you stick around and check back often.  In fact, I’d love it if you would go ahead and subscribe to my weekly email.  Since this a new blog, you can be one of the few people who can say you’ve read it from the very beginning! 🙂