New Themes: Sidespied and Chronicle

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We have two great themes for you today: one free and one premium.

Chronicle

Chronicle

Chronicle is a premium magazine theme by Pro Theme Design with three optional widget areas, featured posts, and a large homepage slider. Chronicle offers lots of options for creating interesting, immersive websites ??? perfect for sites with lots of categories and content.

Sidespied

Sidespied

Sidespied, designed in-house by yours truly, is portfolio-focused and based on the popular Espied theme. This theme focuses on your image content making it stand out no matter what device your audience is using. Not only does it take full advantage of the new portfolio custom post type, it also looks great being used on a blog.

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Rev Up Your Writing with Our Blogging U. Challenge

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Lots of us start blogs with the intention of writing regularly, but quickly find ourselves struggling to sit down at the keyboard. Cultivating a consistent writing habit isn’t as easy as starting a blog — but we can help!

Writing 101: Building a Blogging Habit is a write-every-day challenge designed to help you create a writing habit, publish posts that mesh with your blog’s focus, and push you a bit as a writer. It’s also a great way to make new friends and find new favorite reads. All bloggers are welcome, whether you use WordPress.com, are self-hosted, or use another platform entirely.

Here’s how it works:

  • We’ll post a new writing assignment just for Writing 101 each weekday in June on The Daily Post. Assignments will publish at 10:00 AM EST (14:00 PM GMT). You can follow The Daily Post to get assignment notifications.
  • There are no weekend assignments — you’re…

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Awesome Summer Distractions from WordPress.com

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Summertime
And the livin’ is easy

?George Gershwin

The hot months will soon arrive in the Northern Hemisphere and if you’re like us, you’re planning a little time off from your regular routine. We’ve got some sites to inspire you to make new dishes, read new books, and even appreciate an age-old form of entertainment. No matter your passion, there’s an active WordPress.com community talking about your interests.

Simple Provisions

If you’re looking for easy and delicious meals, Amelia Crook, the blogger at Simple Provisions, has you covered. According to Amelia, “Food does not need to be fancy to be celebrated,” and we couldn’t agree more. We’re planning to celebrate her grilled kale and chickpea salad for starters and could easily lose ourselves in her culinary wonderland.

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The Savvy Reader

Is time spent with a good book part of your summer agenda? Check out The Savvy Reader

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Monday Morning Edition

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Before starting a new week, be sure to check out the features that made a splash on Hot Off the Press last week:

Pro tip of the week: Do you enjoy linking to posts, videos, and other content from around the web, but worry your readers will never return to your site? When you create a new link in one of your posts, don’t forget to check the “Open link…

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Fashion Schools California

The fashion industry is quite a crazy world isn’t it? Designers keep coming out with new designs on an almost daily basis and keeping up with changing trends has become quite difficult hasn’t it? Fashion is definitely a multi-billion dollar industry. And all you need to do is show a little creativity in your work and you are all but guaranteed a shot at the big leagues. But, if you do not have proper training from a reputed California fashion schools you will find it quite difficult to make a name for yourself or even enter the market for that matter. Any student who has sat for merchandising will almost always have the upper hand over someone who hasn’t. Why would you want to give up this opportunity?

There is definitely some weight in the saying that a fashion school is only as good as its faculty. In fact, you could even go as far as saying that it is the faculty which defines a fashion school. A good faculty will not only have sufficient academic experience but will also have practical experience in the world of fashion. There are many schools which hire specialists in various fields as well. This will allow a school to bring practical exposure into their classrooms which is great news for students. This will allow fashion students to know exactly what’s happening in the world of fashion today while they learn.
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A good fashion school will always churn out talented individuals. This is primarily because they get exposed to practical courses which will help them go a long way in life. There are many principles and theories of fashion as well but that alone will definitely not work. A student who graduates from a good fashion school will be able to create original collections keeping both local and global markets in mind. They’ll also be able to use various advanced techniques like draping, pattern making, etc. They will even be able to utilize software & technology to their benefit.

One thing that many people tend to overlook in the fashion industry though is college merchandising. This is another very important course which people should consider taking up as it entails the way products are packed. Students will also learn a lot about market trends and opportunities here. They will learn how to analyze these trends and use them to their benefit as well. So what are you waiting for? Start searching for a good fashion school right away.