Today has been a very productive day. I’ve finished developing a WordPress theme for a client in one sitting. Just now, the client has sent some positive remarks about it. Usually it takes me days to develop a Wordpress theme.

So how did I do it? It’s all about the working environment.

I used to work on my room. And in my room there are a lot of distractions. Things like my phone, my PSP, and my cozy bed. Before today, I used to sit down on my bed with my laptop and start doing my projects. Every once in a while I lie down and make it as an excuse for thinking. Who am I kidding? Only myself. And when I lie down on bed my eyes close and voila! I’m snoring. Although I can’t hear me snore but I know I do because my wife says so. My room is a total mess and very disorganized. You could see lots of wires tangled on the floor and lots of empty bottles of water. I know I should clean it up but when? I don’t think I have time. One of these days I will.

So I woke up this morning and brought my laptop with me in the living room. I left my phone and PSP on my room to free me from distractions. I sat down on the floor, placed the laptop on the table and I was very comfortable. I never turned on the TV and I was listening to music with iTunes. And there it was! I was able to concentrate on doing my projects and the comfort of the environment really helped. Working on a clean and spacious room does really help in improving your work. Good ventilation and lighting will make it better too. From now on, I know what I’ll do if I want to be more productive the easy way.

It’s been almost a month since my last post. It’s not that I’ve ran out of ideas to write but it was because I was busy taking care of my first baby boy and of course busy on work. I go to the office from Mondays to Fridays and at night I work on my freelance projects while I’m looking after the baby. That’s called extreme multitasking.

So what’s my plan right now?

I’m thinking of finishing this Wordpress theme, this one that I’m using right now (Yes this cool blue theme) and I’d release it to the public later. I’m gonna remove the large photo beside the latest post and change the header. You’d also notice that pages and some links are still missing so I’m gonna fix that part too. Hopefully. I can finish it before August ends, release this theme and give the public a neat and cool theme to download.

And yeah, the theme is called Coolmo. Please watch out for it.

Finally after weeks of lazy conceptualizing and surfing I’ve been able to come up with this brand new theme for my site. It’s called Coolmo. Funny name but it’s what I want to call it. I used the “cool” palette on Adobe Illustrator. You can find it on the color swatch dialogue box.

For the giant header, I used Adobe Illustrator again in composing that cool wallpaper you can download for free, but only if you want it. The sections on this new theme aren’t complete yet and I’m planning on completing this theme by next week. I’ll be adding sections like projects, themes, games, the obligatory about page and downloads.

Here are the future sections for this site:

Themes. I’ll be releasing WordPress themes later this year. Themes with cool colors and themes you haven’t seen yet. I’ll push my programming skills for that.

Downloads. Yeah I’d like to share and I’m gonna be putting some cool stuff here for web designers, gamers and you. I’m gonna share my Fireworks styles, some homemade wallpapers and some game saves for PSP games.

Portfolio. These will be the page where you will see all my chosen works. I’ll display all my projects here and talk about them when ‘ve got the time.

Games. This section will be the listing of all my games and how I’d rate them. I love to play but I need to sleep too. Gaming is fun and if only I can earn money thru it. I’d stick to web designing instead.

Well, those are the sections I will be adding so be sure to return if you have time and learn something. By the way here are the Wordpress plugins I’ve used for this theme. I’ve researched on the web and so far these are the best ones I’ve managed to install with this theme.

1. Feeder - it displays feeds on your page in html format. But I’m having problems working it with Tumblr feeds though.
2. FlickrRSS - cool plugin that displays thumbnails of your latest Flickr Photos.
3. Get Recent Comments - displays the latest comments from your visitors. What I love about this is that it’s so highly configurable
4. Gravatar (and userpics) - This plugin allows you to generate a gravatar URL complete with rating, size, default, and border options.
5. Reinvigorate - this is a very cool tracking plugin. Better than Google Analytics.
6. WP Audioscrobbler - This displays the tracks I’ve been listening to for the past few minutes. Cool eh?

I’ve still have a few plugins left that I have to configure but I’ll complete this list once I complete the site. So far, what do you think on the new look? I’m open for suggestions so please leave your commentsafter this post. Thanks.