I know I haven’t mentioned it yet, mostly because I am not able to attend.  (Can we have one of these in the midwest?) 
Anyway, if you live within driving distance of Dallas, Texas, I recommend you check out WordCamp Dallas starting tomorrow.  It goes for two days, and most of the big WordPress names will be in attendance.

For more information about WordCamp Dallas, you can check out the official page.

If you are able to attend and would like to share your impressions with our readers, please let us know!

Just a quick post to let you know that the third release candidate for WordPress 2.5 is now available.   If you want to try it out, you can download the zip file here.

I know this will disappoint some people because we were hoping to have it in time for WordCamp, but it is good to see they are taking the time to get everything right. Because WordPress 2.4 was skipped, this is like two releases at once.

When you think of having two stylesheets for a website or blog, you typically think of an alternate stylesheet specifically for a web browser, such as an Internet Explorer stylesheet.

One thing we haven’t covered yet is how to add a second stylesheet that is only used for certain pages. In order to do this, you’ll want to open up your header.php file and locate your existing stylesheet. The stylesheet code should look something like this:

<link rel="stylesheet" href="<?php bloginfo('stylesheet_url'); ?>" type="text/css" media="screen" />

Now, we need to make an adjustment so that it will only show the code in a certain situation. For example, if you want a certain category to use a different stylesheet, you’d use the following code:

<?php if ( is_category('1') ) {
<link rel="stylesheet" href="<?php bloginfo('template_url'); ?>/cat-1.css"
type="text/css" media="screen" />;
<?php } else { ?>
<link rel="stylesheet" href="<?php bloginfo('stylesheet_url'); ?>"
type="text/css" media="screen" />
<?php } ?>

In this example, we are assigning the cat-1.css to be used for category 1. Every other page will use the normal stylesheet.

You can plugin in alternate information as needed.

Today I noticed that there is more good work coming from the premium WordPress team over at iThemes.   They have continued the trend of carving out their own niche, this time with a Corporate theme, designed specifically for small corporations.

I think it is great that they’ve recognized many small businesses and corporations are switching to WordPress for creating their websites/blogs and they are doing a great job of filling the need.   This theme comes with the following features:

• Web 2.0 glossy look
• 6 pre-built color styles
• Integrated blog component
• Static home page which can be edited through Dashboard and Widgets
• Widgets for easy text editing of sidebars
• Upload a new header image through Theme Options tab (PSD included)

So, how does it look?   Here is a screen shot of the front page:

And here is the post page:

As mentioned above, there are 6 different colors to choose from (Blue, Green, Orange, Red, Teal, White), and it is available at the really low price of $29.95 for a single-use license, or $39.95 for a multiple-use license.   Check out the Corporate theme.