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In 2007, I had my friend Hanifa contacted me to help her with (at that time) her personal site called Fashionese Daily. At that time, I haven’t known who she was. One thing I knew was that she had a blog and she wanted to move it into something different. It was using Blogspot service. I said I was available, and take the risk to help her.

During the first few months, I was a little busy her site. Moving from Blogspot to WordPress, installing forum software — it was PunBB, making customization, and more. The site was growing day by day. I work together with her and friends. Until today…

After three years, Fashionese Daily is much bigger — which is a good thing. Last year, I focused on developing Fashionese Daily. This year, there are more than three blogs in the network. I’m responsible for the blog design (all blogs under Female Daily Network like Fashionese Daily (blog and gallery), Mommies Daily, and Fame ‘n Frame). From the technical-related stuff, my responsibility is to create blog design to help content delivery. Also, I do things related to social media research. I’m enjoying the process.

Now, I’m in Jakarta. Joining the Female Daily Network ship. I just hope my addiction of blog and social media can contribute to this lovely community. I hope I contribute more…

Here’s an illustration:

You learn about web technologies like design, content management systems, social media. At the same time, you also study some of those subjects deeper. It makes you understand and sometime you can make a small prediction about what will happen next if you use certain strategies (in one of those technologies). You help someone based on your knowledge, but he/she always gives you arguments, telling you this and that like he/she knows better than you.

In the end — or in a particular stage — the situation happens just like what you tell him/her. As the consequence, you have to deal something that you already had in mind before everything was started. You move backward.

I think some people already been in the situation above. And sometime, it happened to me. For example, when Twitter was not popular in Indonesia like today. I taught myself about what happened to Twitter out there (outside the country). I read how Twitter was being used by individuals, public figures even companies. Not only that, I also learn the good and not so good practices of using Twitter.

I had someone asked me about this and wanted to learn about Twitter. I told many things about Twitter, including what Twitter is. I proposed some ideas about how Twitter can help him to build his brand. He did not found that Twitter was popular at that time. He only ‘heard’ of it, but never used it. I believed that it was about time.

After about a year, Twitter popularity hit this country. Many people use it for different purposes. What happen to him? The situation left him behind. While everyone gain something good because of what I’ve told him months before, he goes nowhere. Sometime, I really want to say this: “I told you…”

I hate when I’m in this kind of situation. I really wanted to help, but sometime some people did not allow me to help. I’m fine. Sometime, I just smile.

Let’s make this post short. When I worked on my blog in Bahasa Indonesia, I decided to use a simple theme. I don’t want to use too many images. Then, I created a theme. A simple theme. I realized that I haven’t created any single free theme this year — or may be last year.

Now, if you want to try another WordPress theme, I publish a WordPress theme called Texta. What does Texta mean? Well, the above paragraph tells all — I think. Go to Texta theme page and download it from there. Yes, it’s free.