I’m one of the very few WordPress newbies who still have yet to master the rather complicated templating system. Though mastering the templating system shouldn’t require a vast knowledge of PHP, still, the system itself is still intimidating. With that being said, newbie designers like me have to rely on using existing pre-made themes and templates and do some custom modification to personalize it and make it as our own. However, as a web designer in this competitive field I feel that with this, I wouldn’t be taken seriously by fellow designers (and developers?) as one of their own by modifying pre-existing frameworks and then claim the entire design as my own.

That was the past though where real web designing was defined as doing everything from scratch from graphics to full fluency to markups such as HTML and CSS, and in some cases, added other server-side scripting languages such as Javascript and PHP. Today, the web designing and development community have come up with various methods and styles that should simplify web designing work as trends continue to change (ie. using pre-made frameworks such as the 960 Grid, etc.), and made the field a lot more welcome to those who want to get in to the field. With this, and with a lot of patience and enthusiasm, any ordinary person can learn (at least the basics) web designing with the right tools and methods that are now available all over the net for free (and in some cases, for a fee).

In this case, for a fee, Themify, a known web designing service that create and sell pre-built WordPress templates (and Photoshop PSD files for overall customization instead of using the default design) for those who don’t have much experience in overall designing and markup, as well as for those who would like to have those special features to be used for a client’s website project, is celebrating their one-year anniversary of their successful firm presence in the net by selling their fee-based Developer Club-level membership and all of their existing templates for only $69 (USD). Best of all, this one-time price of $69 is a lifetime fee, meaning unlike their regular membership pricing where there is a one-time membership fee and extra recurring fees a month right after. For designing professionals, this may be worth it, but for the starters who can barely afford to purchase the right software for web designing, may even find these intricately-designed themes too expensive.

You can take advantage of their Anniversary Pack today, as this huge blowout sale will end this Sunday, August 14th. I immediately took advantage of it as I want to use different templates to create custom designs for future projects (personal projects that is) and for future potential clients yesterday and I’m already excited and motivated.

Yup. This is actually the first time that I’m plugging a WordPress theme service site and also promoting its awesome sale.

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