Resources

Free Wordpress Themes

Terms of Use
You may use and even modify any of our Wordpress themes under the Creative Commons Sharealike 3.0 licence.

Please retain the link to Heraghty Web Design, Ireland in the footer!

Sparsely Themes
We’ve created a family of simple, clean, two-column, widget-ready Wordpress Themes, called Sparsely. There are currently three versions of the theme — Sparsely Blue, Sparsley Red and Sparsely Green.

Download the Sparsely Green theme (zip file) | View Demo

Download the Sparsely Blue theme | View Demo

Download the Sparsely Red theme (zip file) | View Demo

Weston Theme
Weston is a brown, two-columned, widget-ready theme. It is another simple yet elegant theme, with neat rounded corners on blog post backgrounds.

Download the Weston theme | View Demo

Blogs

Read/Write Web is always on top of web 2.0 developments and technologies.

Google Operating System has the latest scoops on the world’s biggest web company.

Digital Inspiration — Amit Agarwal, India’s first and best-known professional blogger, offers an endless stream of useful tips, observations and free downloads.

Mediajunk Blog — Started in 2003, our founder Michael Heraghty updates his blog infrequently, but the large archive of entries are worthwhile reading for anyone interested in internet trends.

Web Design and Development

Smashing Magazine is a must-read ezine for professional web designers everywhere.

Digg/Design — the Design section of Digg.com comes up trumps with tips, how-tos and free downloads.

Webcreme is our favourite among all the web design showcase sites.

Marketing

Trendwatchers makes fascinating reading for marketeers who want to stay ahead of the curve.

Books

Don’t Make Me Think by Steve Krug is still the best introduction for usability beginners, and a regular re-read for the converted.

Web Redesign 2.0 provides a great project management guide to the process of web design or re-design, from ideas to execution.

Karaoke Capitalism, and its predecessor, Funky Business are excellent guides to business in the 21st Century.

Fun and Nonsense

Nobody Here — Wacky, creative, inspiring and entertaining.

Limmy — Hilarious Flash interactions, animations and videos with a distinct Glasgow skew. Pure genius.