If you’re a Thesis user and you’ve been looking for a premium skin that’s a bit special, allow me introduce you to Osmotic.
Built on Thesis as a clean blog skin, Osmotic has a bunch of added features and loads of prettiness.
And it’s only available to 25 people. That’s right. I’ve always felt that designing a premium skin, then selling 500 copies kind of makes it, un-premium.
So I’ve capped the number of people who can buy a single user license for Osmotic to just 25. Nice!
Of course this means you’re going to have to pay a little bit extra for all this Osmotic goodness. I’ve fixed the price at $99, but to sweeten the deal and stop you all whining about my attempts to plunder your childrens’ inheritances, I’m also throwing in installation of the skin on your Thesis theme. Even nicer!
Anyway, enough banter. Head over to the Osmotic sales page (HINT: you should click the ‘Buy Now’ button while you’re there) to see what features are in store, or take a look at the Osmotic demo I’ve got running on a test server. Then, tell everyone about it because if I don’t manage to sell 25 copies of the skin I WON’T BE MAKING ANY MORE – and my children will need to take to the streets to forage for food & water!
Happy shopping!
I’ve had a couple of people (ok, one person) ask me what tools I use to deliver up PSD to Thesis sites and seen as I can’t be bothered to write a tutorial today, I’ll tell you.
- Hardware. I use a MacBook Pro 15″ laptop for everything except IE testing. For that I use my wife’s PC (I have no idea what spec it is. It’s a PC, therefore I don’t care).
- Graphics. Primarily I use Photoshop CS3 and Illustrator CS3. I’m yet to find an argument for upgrading to CS4. Besides, have you seen what it costs?!
- Code editor. Up until early last year I was a big Dreamweaver fan. But it’s too damn bloated nowadays. So I switched to Coda. Seriously, buy a Mac just to get Coda. It’s that good.
- FTP. Coda’s built-in FTP client, Transmit, works very nicely but I also run Filezilla, simply because it allows me to transfer stuff while I’m working on other stuff.
- Browsers. You can’t beat Firefox for web development. Along with the Web developer toolbar and Firebug this is my most important tool of all. However, there are a few people in the world who don’t use Firefox (freaks!), so I test in Safari, Chrome and Opera (and IE6, 7 & 8 on the aforementioned PC).
- Test server. I have a MAMP installation for testing sites, but I find more and more that I’m developing live on either my own test domains or client domains. It means one less transfer once the project is done, and allows for instant feedback on any work I do. My hosting provider is a UK based company called Xilo and they are absolutely brilliant.
- Timekeeping & Invoicing. Until recently I didn’t worry about timekeeping, but I found I was losing money on some jobs, so I installed a nice little Mac desktop app called On The Job. It allows me to keep time on projects, break down tasks and raise invoices. Other than Coda, this is the coolest piece of software I own and a true lifesaver.
- Backups. Most Apple users make use of Time Machine for backups, but I never seem to remember to plug my external drive in. So I opted for a Dropbox account instead. Much simpler.
Hello, I’m Dave. I work with web design agencies, freelancers and bloggers to develop standards-compliant WordPress and Thesis themes.