Anyone who follows the WordPress community should be familiar with the recent development that Brian and Jason have teamed up and started creating GPL’d themes. They’ve set up shop over at RevolutionTwo.com and they already have a stunning collection of WP themes available. For the new Red Haven web site, I decided a little “Out with the old, in with the new” might be in order and grabbed a copy of the Office theme.

I’ve made a number of minor modifications, mostly in the color scheme and stylesheet, but I also had to clean up a couple of bugs here and there. There wasn’t anything really serious, just a couple of width and height issues I needed to adjust. There was also a bit of a learning curve on getting images to look just right and figuring out a good taxonomy for categories. The navigation menu above the showcase is completely driven off of categories and that required I change the way I normally use categories some.

Overall, I’m very happy with the theme and eternally grateful to Brian and Jason for the fundamental change to their operating model for quality WordPress themes.

I have just completed the initial mockup of my new Red Haven Internet Solutions business cards. I created the two-sided card in Photoshop and then popped them into another image to create the following mockup.

If you’d like to create your own business cards, I highly recommend the following tutorials over at PSDTuts.com.

• Making a Print-Ready Business Card Using Only Photoshop
• Using the Vanishing Point Filter to Mock up a Business Card

Be forewarned that the first tutorial uses metric dimensions. I went to UPrinting.com to get the proper dimensions in inches. As for the vanishing point filter, I just didn’t have the time to setup the surface portion of it.