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Justin Tadlock has become one of my favourite wordpress templates designer. He produces a style of templates that im very fond of: magazine style templates.

Recently, he created what he calls, a super theme. It is called Options theme, and it is a wordpress magazine style template. It is not only a magazine, it is a versatile theme that will fit every blogger need. As Justin says, the options theme is like Structure (the theme im currently using) on steroids!

The name says it all. This theme is packed with a load of options for you to choose. It will take some time for you to get comfortable with the options this great theme has to give

This theme is still in Beta version, but Justin plans to release this week the “final” version. He already made some changes for the current beta version.

But enough of this talk and lets head for what the options theme has to give.

Right now, the package comes with 3 CSS layouts. The original release came with a Dark css template and a light css template. This week, “new groove” style was added. You can choose which CSS style to use within the administration panel. If you know a bit of CSS coding, you can easily create a CSS layout to implement on options theme, if not, than you just need to wait for more releases from Justin or the growing community around this theme.

The homepage layout can be changed in multiple ways. There are five blocks, and in each block you can choose 14 different options.

The sidebar is totally widget compatible, and the theme comes with several widgets to help you customize the blog, from several ad widgets to flickr or a video widget.

One of the things a like most on this theme, besides the CSS customisation, is the Features Gallery option. This option uses Smooth Gallery. This allows you to cycle featured posts with a nice transition effect between posts.

If you want to see how the theme looks, and the transition effect I’ve just mentioned then visit the demo.

As you can see, the demo is using the Dark version. The light version in my honest opinion it’s nothing special. There is now the new CSS style, new groove:

image from justintadlock.com

Pros:

- Great looking theme!

- Easy CSS customisation;

- Options for every kind of blogger;

- Widget Ready theme;

- Great support from the author and form the community

Cons:

- You will need to try, try, try all the options to see what fits best for you. (is this really a negative aspect? lol)

- Hum, can’t really think of more negative aspects…. lol

To download or gather more info about this theme just visit Justintadlock.com

So, in conclusion. this is one of the best (if not the best) theme around. Im tempted to change my current theme (Structure theme) to this one. What do you thing? Should i change? Im really tempted, but i will wait a couple more days for the new release.

One of the most profitable ways to make money blogging is selling links. But some times it may be hard to find someone that want to by a link from you. The best choice is to have a “middle man”. TNX.net acts as the “middle man”, and with surprisingly efficiency.

You may sell links not only to the main page, but for all pages of your blog/site that are indexed by TNX.

How does it work?

You just need to register, add your website (sadly, they don’t accept Portuguese websites), place the code where you want the links to appear and wait for your website to be accepted.

I did this a couple of days ago, and TNX already managed to provide me with 100 possible paid links! And i decide wich to use and where to use them.

Each link you sell, TNX will take a share of the profit. Only 25% of the link price. It is very reasonable, if you compare to other sites that take 50% of your revenue!!

Tnx works on a points system, meaning that you don’t earn money right a way for selling links. Instead, your site is evaluated according to specific page rank, and yahoo back links.

So, the better you are ranked more money you will make.

The points you earn are then converted into cash by selling them. You can choose to transfer to another user (you may sell them, for example at digitalpoint forums), or sell them directly to TNX. Currently, they by 1000 points for $0,75, and the minimum payout is only $5 payable to your paypal account.

They have also a referral system. If you refer someone to use Tnx network, then you will earn 13,3% of the points earned by he/she for life!

If you are scared by the recent google slap on sites that sell links, i can assure you that TNX links look like normal site links. It’s one of the best software that i have found that can make a paid link look natural to the google bot, and preventing the publishers for being slapped and loose their page rank.

If you want to become an advertiser, then one of the best aspects is the very reasonable price of links! And above all, you can get thousands of static links that will help you improve your search engine rankings.

I admit, the possibility to have thousands of links for my sites so easily is very tempting.

The site is clean, graphically appealing but soft. The administration area could be improved. You don’t have a personal info control panel. Instead you have an advertise and publisher panel.

As a final note, i do recommend this system. It is very easy to sell links, although i admit that if you have a PR of 0, your earnings will can be limited (try their calculator to see how much you can earn).

Happy earnings!

A fellow blogger from webvicio.com (a portuguese blog similar to this) gave me a link for a site in where you play for free and can earn prizes. This site is called Prizee.

The site has several games to play. Each time you play you can earn a certain amount of money. That money can be used to purchase prizes.

The good news about this site is that it is easy to get money, and the prizes don’t cost that much. I personally want a prize that costs only 7 bubz (the game currency)!

The list of prizes is considerable, some are confined to france, but the majority is available to other countries beside France.

The games are really fun, but you can only play them a limited number of times.

Click the banner below and get some prizes in a funny way:

In my quest to search for a good magazine theme i stumbled with Structure Theme

I personally like it. It’s simple, pretty, very costumizable and easy to use. It requires some editing, and you need to do lots of trial and error. As you can see, there are some things that my not work, or are still to be edited.

if you find some bug please reporte it to me.

View Demo of the theme.

Tell me what you think of this theme compared to previous one. Thanks!