Standing out from the crowd: You, Your Brand, and Your WordPress Theme

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General overview of what brand is and how you can strengthen your brand or identity by making some simple changes to your WordPress theme.

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Standing Out From the Crowd:You, Your Brand, & Your WordPress Theme

WordCamp HawaiiOctober 25, 2008

Holly Hagen

Hello! My name is Holly and I’m a desvloper

hollyhagen@hotstudio.com@hollyhagen

http://hottub.hotstudio.comhttp://shinynewtoy.com/blog

What is brand?

Brand is NOT a logo.

Brand is NOT a identity system.

Brand is NOT a product.

A brand is a person’s gut feeling about a product, service, or company. It’s not what YOU say it is. It’s what THEY say it is.

–Marty Neumeier, “The Brand Gap”

So... why is this important?

133,000,000blogs worldwide

http://technorati.com/blogging/state-of-the-blogosphere/

4,486,859WordPress.com blogs

I want to be different.Now what?

Discovery• http://www.colourlovers.com/• http://www.typetester.org/• http://designmeltdown.com/• http://patterntap.com/

Other places to get inspiration:css galleries, flickr, music, real life...

Color palette Sites & elements I like

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