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To make life easier for everyone, we have uploaded our recent themes onto the Wordpress theme repository and now you can see demos online.
You can view the following online now, all future themes will be made available as they are released:

Harmony - Theme Demo
WhyDontYou - Theme Demo
Contrast - Theme Demo

Thank you for your patience.
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If you haven’t yet come across it, the Open Source Web Design site is a wonderful resource where designers can showcase their talents and provide a bit of code for everyone to share.
Visiting this site can, depending on your experience and which themes you check out, provide inspiration and even help people over stumbling blocks [...]

New: Contrast 1.0.1beta - WordPress theme available for download.
As a result of the interest in our previous theme releases (Harmony has had over 1000 hits now), Compuskills webservice plans to release new themes on a regular basis. The latest is a high contrast theme, with minimal images and based on a black and white [...]

Harmony 0.5.2b Wordpress Theme Available for Download
Following on from our previous theme release, the new theme designed for the WhyDontYou Blog is available for download (free, released under the creative commons licence). It is not a “sponsored” theme, but there are links back here in the footer which we request you leave in place. In [...]

We are in the process of making new themes for WordPress, where appropriate these themes will be released here for free download.
If you have any requests or would like a theme tweaked in anyway, please let us know. Depending on the work involved these will probably be carried out free of charge. You can get [...]

Download the Why Dont You Blog WordPress Theme.
The Word Press theme designed for the WhyDontYou Blog is now available for download (free, released under the creative commons licence). It is not a “sponsored” theme, but there are links back here in the footer which we request you leave in place. In addition, there is a [...]

After quite a wait, Wordpress 2.2 is now available for download and install.
While we think this is a good thing, Compuskills are currently advising customers who have a WP 2.1.3 installation to hold off for a little while before doing the update. If you give it a few days, people will have the chance to [...]

Although it is very early to make any conclusions, it is worth noticing that in the 24 hours since we instituted a small change to the .htaccess rules on one of the blogs we manage (talked about in previous post), the volume of spam comments being held by Akismet has dropped by almost 75%. Comparing [...]

Recently we were reviewing the measures we could take to reduce the spam hitting the email accounts we manage and the blogs we are responsible for overseeing. It will probably come as no surprise to most of you, but it was very easy to identify some obvious trends. Fortunately a response was equally easy. By [...]

Just a reminder for everyone who uses WordPress that there has been a security upgrade (patch) released. Find out more.
If you are Compuskills customer, your word press has been upgraded.
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