CompuSkills Web Design Service

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 [...]

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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FireStats is a system for getting web statistics. You can download it from firestats.cc homepage or you can get it as a WordPress plugin for a blog.
It gives you a fascinating insight into how many hits your pages are getting, which pages are getting accesssed, how they got there, what browsers and operating systems [...]

Short post today - lots of work to keep us all busy, so time is tight. As part of a current project, we were looking for inspiration and came across an excellent photoshop tutorial about designing “web 2.0″ header images. (Yes, the dreaded web 2.0 word, sorry).
The tutorial is really easy to follow and produces [...]

Hot on the heels of the completed re-design of the Compuskills web site, we have begun an overhaul - rebuild of the parent site at WhyDontYou (most people will be used to seeing the blog there, as the main site has been off line for some time with all pointers on that domain going to [...]

For quite some time now, CSS Zen Garden has been an excellent example of the lengths graphic designers can take webpages with nothing more than CSS.
As a project which is largely open to anyone, it obvious comes up with a mixed bag - some are really good looking sites (such as The Original), some are [...]