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	<title>Arcane Palette Creative Design&#187;  :: creative web design</title>
	<link>http://www.arcanepalette.com</link>
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		<title>Free St. Patrick&#8217;s Day Holiday Blogger Template: A bit of Luck</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I have a hard time looking at this Blogger template (or the title anyway) and not singing &#8220;with a little bit of luck, we can make it through the night&#8221; to myself.  While old UK Garage dance club anthems aren&#8217;t exactly the subject of this Blogger template, it&#8217;s not that far off, either.
Far from being full of the traditional cherubic leprechauns and shamrocks and &#8220;kiss me, I&#8217;m Irish&#8221; slogans, we wanted to approach this St. Patrick&#8217;s Day theme in a way that was representative of how the holiday is most commonly celebrated: using it as an excuse to drink Guinness.
For that reason, we took a rugged and dirty approach to designing a St. Patrick&#8217;s Day theme, one more akin to a smoky pub than Lucky Charms&#8230;something that&#8217;s just a bit more gritty [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.arcanepalette.com/free-blogger-templates/free-st-patricks-day-holiday-blogger-template-bit-luck/</link>
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		<title>Free Calendar Wallpaper for March: Afternoon Dream</title>
		<description><![CDATA[This month&#8217;s calendar wallpaper (and non-calendar companion) has a mysterious, vintage feel.  Dark shapes and strange symbols and half-forgotten memories drift across the periphery of your awareness and you&#8217;re not sure if those strangely familiar shapes are ominous or welcoming.
This wallpaper comes in all the usual sizes, with and without calendar, as well as an iPhone version.
Widescreen
1920×1200
1440×900
Standard
1600×1200
1280×960
iPhone
320×480
download Afternoon Dream 3.2 MB
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		<link>http://www.arcanepalette.com/wallpapers/free-calendar-wallpaper-march-afternoon-dream/</link>
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		<title>Free Valentines Blogger Template: Love is all you need</title>
		<description><![CDATA[This quilting inspired Blogger template is full of sweet and heart  just in time for Valentines Day (and any other day you want a little pink on your blog).  It incorporates fabric textures and stitching along with pretty and colorful patterns to celebrate V-day.  Dress up your blog in this sweet and inviting expression of the most important thing in the world: love.
Contact us if you have interest in a custom Blogger template or just want a customized header image like in the screenshot.  And if you like the blog template, let us know in the comments &#8212; we love hearing from you!
Download Love is all you need 3.3 kB
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		<link>http://www.arcanepalette.com/free-blogger-templates/free-valentines-blogger-template-love/</link>
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		<title>Free Desktop Wallpaper: Clockwork Decay</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;ve been wanting to play with a steampunk-themed design for a while.  So, I made that the goal of this month&#8217;s design.  I started out with some watch pieces and I added in some grunge textures and played with the color palette. I really like the way the end result looks like rust, and has a real gritty quality to it.  This particular design started out just experimenting with some objects and textures with no particular end goal in mind.  My original plan was to do a WordPress theme or a Blogger theme, and I may still do both, or I may do something similar but new.
This wallpaper comes in all the usual sizes, with and without calendar.  We also included a Twitter background.
Widescreen
1920&#215;1200
1440&#215;900
1280&#215;800
Standard
1600&#215;1200
1024&#215;768
iPhone
320&#215;480
Twitter
1920&#215;1200 
Download Clockwork Decay 13.1 [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.arcanepalette.com/wallpapers/free-desktop-wallpaper-clockwork-decay/</link>
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		<title>Adventure Tykes</title>
		<description><![CDATA[<a href="http://www.arcanepalette.com/portfolio/adventure-tykes"><img class="alignleft size-medium wp-image-1051" title="adventuretykes-home" src="http://www.arcanepalette.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/01/adventuretykes-home-300x196.jpg" alt="" width="300" height="196" /></a>]]></description>
		<link>http://www.arcanepalette.com/portfolio/adventure-tykes/</link>
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		<title>Free Desktop Wallpaper: Hot Mess</title>
		<description><![CDATA[This wallpaper is what happened when I set out to do something with our holiday lights texture photos.  It&#8217;s colorful and fun and you can look at it many different ways, since there&#8217;s lots going on.  I&#8217;ve been catching myself staring at it on my monitor many times, dreaming of a connect four game that is as attractive and chaotic as this looks.
Hot Mess is available in widescreen, standard, and iPhone formats in the following sizes:
Widescreen
1920&#215;1200
1440&#215;900
Standard
1600&#215;1200
1280&#215;960
1024&#215;768
iPhone
320&#215;480
We also included a version for your Twitter account!
Download Hot Mess 2.2 MB
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		<link>http://www.arcanepalette.com/wallpapers/free-desktop-wallpaper-hot-mess/</link>
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		<title>WordPress tip: How to upgrade all your plugins in one go</title>
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If you haven&#8217;t upgraded your WordPress blog to 2.9 (actually 2.9.1 as of the time of this writing), you should.  With the 2.9 update, the people at WP have implemented a feature that I&#8217;ve been pining for for some time.  The only problem is it&#8217;s not where you&#8217;d think it might be.

If you do regularly keep up on your WP updates whenever you get an alert that there&#8217;s a new version, you probably saw the option to upgrade your plugins when you upgraded to 2.9.1.  But I know a lot of people (myself included) often let updates slide, and while I did run out and upgrade to 2.9, I hunted for the upgrade-all-the-plugins-at-once button and didn&#8217;t find it.  If you&#8217;re like me, this post is for you, and here&#8217;s what [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.arcanepalette.com/articles/wordpress-tip-upgrade-plugins/</link>
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		<title>Free Desktop Wallpaper: Dark Clouds</title>
		<description><![CDATA[We&#8217;re starting the new year off with a brand new calendar wallpaper.  This time we went all out and made one for those of you sporting dual monitor setups.  This design started with an idea I started playing with a couple months ago for a blog background.  It didn&#8217;t work for that, but I came back to the idea when I wanted to change my logon screen background.  After that, I wanted to experiment with turning it into a wallpaper that spanned my dual monitors.  The only real driving design idea was to keep it dark so it doesn&#8217;t light the entire room at night with the lights out, which is often my goal when designing wallpapers.
If you&#8217;re using the dual monitor version, the left contains the January calendar.  There [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.arcanepalette.com/wallpapers/free-desktop-wallpaper-dark-clouds/</link>
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		<title>Free Texture Pack: Lights (full archive) &amp; Snow</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Ho Ho Ho!  Merry Non-Denominational Winter Holiday!
As we teased last week, here&#8217;s the full archive of all 50 light textures that we&#8217;ve posted in two parts (you can check out previews of part one here, and part two here).  But, because you waited patiently and were such good little boys and girls, we bundled a special surprise into your stocking: you can also download a bonus snow texture pack featured below.  You can see one of these textures in action in our popular holiday Blogger template, Advent.  Snow is often challenging to find good textures of because it&#8217;s not something you can point-and-shoot.  Without manual adjustment, photographs of snow will come out gray, because cameras look for light and dark and take the average when they are making their light [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.arcanepalette.com/textures/free-texture-pack-lights-full-archive-snow/</link>
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		<title>Free Texture Pack: Lights 2</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Continuing the light texture pack we started last week, here&#8217;s the 2nd half of the light textures we shot.  As with our other texture packs, all images are high resolution JPGs. You can click the thumbnails below for a resized version.
All our textures are released under a Creative Commons 3.0 Attribution Share-Alike license. Click the license badge below for more information about usage.

Arcane Palette textures by Arcane Palette Creative Design is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 3.0 United States License.
Based on a work at www.arcanepalette.com.
To download this pack, click the link underneath the previews below.
download AP-light2 24.7 MB
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Tell us what you think!
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		<link>http://www.arcanepalette.com/textures/free-texture-pack-lights-2/</link>
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