As a couple of people have already asked I thought I would jump the gun, and instead of writing a detailed essay about the finer points of our new theme I decided to just throw you a quick intro into what makes up the GetMorePie.com theme.

First and foremost, the pride of getmorepie.com and the official Representative of the More Pie mantra is the Get More Pie Pimpin Dude!  Our dudey is a completely unique,  made to order piece of artwork from a guy we found on ebay classifieds ads – Liam Brocklehurst.  I saw a couple of his pieces on the website and thought he would be worth a shot, so I emailed him my brief.

Would you like to read my brief?

I wonder if this is something you could do/would be interested in.

I have a website that will be providing webmaster tools and marketing or money making tips.

The name is Get More Pie, with pie being the euphomism for success/traffic/money etc.

Could you design a character based logo, I envisage some kind of Manga style Pimpish business man with a fist full of cash, a face full of Pie and a plate in the other hand holding a money pie.

The concept sounds cheesy, so I wonder if you would be able to do it and if you think you could pull it off in style.

What do you think, did he pull it off in style?  I think he did an Excellent Job, so does Ben too which is nice coz we dont always see eye to eye!  If you need any artwork doing, give him a shout - http://liambrocklehurst.com

Now as for the theme itself, I wanted to do it all myself instead of using one of our normal guys,  I am a competent coder and developer but often I’m not the one that does all the hardwork, and to be quiet honest I lack that creative flair (this is why we have a team!).  All that aside I was determined and I knew that enough resources and even completely free themes and frameworks lay out the in the wilder-web, so I set about finding some stuff.

I had decided based on previous websites that I should use Thematic for the theme framework and save myself the daunting task of coding the theme files from the ground up.  And for the graphics, I love Smashing magazine and the free stuff they always have.  If I’d have felt brave enough, I would have done a tutorial step by step but instead I cheated and took 2 PSD templates and mashed them up together(Delistore and WordPress Fun).  If you look, you can still see some elements of both templates in this theme, but also it is very different too.

Even though I had some pretty decent freebies and an uber awesome Feature graphic, I wasnt quiet there with the finer points of the WordPress Code, like the wp-query for custom loops and pulling images on my front page all neatly etc, so thankfully as he always does Ben managed to save the day with some slick snippets of php to get me where I wanted to go.

So with the help of a cool Graphic artist, Smashing Magazine, the guys from Themeshaper and most of all my brother, partner and site contributer Ben(oh and a good many hours of stress and sweat)  I managed to put together what I like to think is a pretty cool looking theme!  I’m afraid I’m not going to be giving it away any time soon but themes is something we would like to get into pretty soon.  We’ll see what the new year brings

Oh and for anyone intersted, I intend to write a more detailed explanation of some of the steps I took to put this theme together, I think it wouldbe helpful for some readers   I’ll do it just as soon as I actually finish it!  As you can probably tell even though it is nearly there, this is still my “Work in Progress”.

PS – noone was around apart from google to help with the previously mentioned bug!  DOH! I think I gave myself a bald patch over that problem!