Get your hands on the new Street Fighter 2 widget. You can grab the widget code and embed it on your website, or even your myspace or facebook profile. This flash remake of the game is a very accurate copy of the arcade original featuring all the characters and bonus levels. If you just want to play the game on a website please follow this link:

Play Street Fighter online

The Football Journalist is a blog site aimed at people who want to become professional sports and football journalists. It features listings of sports journalism courses and jobs within the football industry.

I applied a few basic customisations to the theme, changing the background image and adding in the adsense blocks and job listings widgets. I also used a few of my favourite plugins to apply SEO to the site.

As the site is linked with FootballFanCast (one of the leading football blog and podcasting sites in the UK) I would highly recommend it for anyone who is working towards a carreer in football journalism.

Check it out: www.thefootballjournalist.com

After releasing my WordPress theme Simplistix into the wild a few weeks ago I have been very happy, and somewhat surprised by it's popularity. It has received hundreds of downloads from my site and over 700 downloads from wordpress.org in the last 12 days. I knew that there was a niche for simple, text based blog themes as I had seen a few sites such as www.plaintxt.org that are entirely devoted to these type of themes. But, with all the sophisticated and complex wordpress themes on offer, Simplistix feels like quite a humble little theme — perhaps that's part of it's charm.

Anyway, seeing the download stats made me feel curious about who was using the theme. I had already seen it being used on a couple of blogs because, as with most wordpress projects, I had received some suggestions, ideas, support requests and constructive criticisms from members of the wordpress community. I did a bit of further research on google and instantly found loads more bloggers using my theme. The main thing that struck me was the diversity of subject matter that these blogs covered – science, computer programming, economics, movies, music, art, fashion and many more. It was also nice to see instances where people had modified the theme, adding in their own site headers, sidebar widgets, google advertising, etc.

I felt so inspired by seeing all these sites using Simplistix as their theme that I decided to write this post featuring some of my favourites. So here they are:

TOP PICKS

www.flyhypersonic.com – The seatbelt sign is illuminated
www.thewherewithal.org – Blogging about credit, debt, money, economy, theory
nicolasulloa.com/blog – Music, Animation, Graphic Arts and Illustration
www.ianthewebsite.com – If you could be any blog, what blog would you be?
2chicksblogging.com – Blogging for Change Training since 2008
feedingme.com
blog.nakedsteve.com – Oh hey is that a monome?

THE BEST OF THE REST

phoward.com/blog
ponasniekas.nespalvotas.lt
www.bigtechcenter.info
www.bletherskite.com
blog.xieer.com
www.bestmusiccenter.info
www.businesstechnologytimes.com/wordpress
likeitreallymatters.com
hasibul.info/blog

I am planning an update to the theme in the near future where I will add an options menu which will allow you to control colours, fonts etc.

The all new version (1.2) of the 76 Digital WordPress theme-set by 76 Creative is now available for download. The theme was designed for a much earlier version of WP, and so did not include support for some important new features. As you may have read in my previous post, there will soon be French language versions of all these themes available thanks to Wolforg.

To bring it in line with the current WordPress standards I have added the following features:

• Gravatar support
• Widget ready sidebar
• Tags (yes we used to have to use a plugin for that!!)

The 76 Digital theme comes in four colour schemes: blue, green, orange and pink. It features a Flash header, which displays your blog title and tagline. It is also set up to work with many useful plugins.

Please read the readme file before installing the themes.

FEATURES:

1. Comes in four colour schemes.
2. Flash header displaying blog title and tagline.
3. Compatible with many plugins, as listed below...

INSTRUCTIONS:

1. Choose the colour scheme you want.
2. Upload the theme to your wp-conent/themes folder.
3. Select the them from the 'Presentation' page in your WordPress.

PLUGINS:

The theme is set up to work with the following plugins if they are installed:

1. Dagon Design Sitemap Generator — Create a sitemap page.
2. Get Recent Comments — Display recent comments in the sidebar.
3. Jerome's Keywords — Attach tags to posts and have them display in your sidebar.
4. Theme Switcher — Switch between the different themes you have installed.
5. WP Navigation Tool (NAVT) — Create custom links for the tabbed navigation across the top of the page. Just create a group called 'tabs', then add links to it. This plugin is highly recommended!!

DOWNLOAD: