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Okay I admit it.  I have been reading too many steampunk novels recently because this is what spilled out of my subconcious when I sat down to create a new wallpaper.  Clockwork, ancient tomes filled with long lost technology, a mixture of organic and cybernetic.  What will society look like when we’re all dust?  What will be “new technology” when artifacts like the telephone and the laptop are preserved in ancient history museums, when our civilization is thousands of years gone?

Included in the zip file are wallpapers in widescreen and fullscreen format, as well as iPhone and iPad counterparts.  We’ve also added a Twitter background.  The following resolutions are included:

Widescreen
1920×1200
1440×900

Fullscreen
1600×1200
1200×800

iPad
768×1024

iPhone
320×480

Twitter
1920×1200

Download Forecast 24.6 MB
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I’ve been wanting to play with a steampunk-themed design for a while. So, I made that the goal of this month’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
1920×1200
1440×900
1280×800

Standard
1600×1200
1024×768

iPhone
320×480

Twitter
1920×1200

Download Clockwork Decay 13.1 MB
downloaded 654

We’re happy to provide content that people find interesting or useful. And lately, interesting or useful includes texture packs, blogger templates, and desktop wallpapers. We used a complex system of fake math incorporating pageviews and downloads to come up with this top 10 list of our most popular content:

10. Free Texture Pack: Beach

With so many great textures out there, and great texture resources, there is often huge gaping holes in themes and subject matter that seem so obvious when you’re walking around and looking at your environment. This Beach texture pack was an attempt to close up one of those holes and we’re glad other people have found it useful.

9. Web Design Cost Calculator

The web designer cost calculator started out as a tool adapting the calculations discussed in a post in Smashing Magazine into a spreadsheet from which we could derive quotes to give to our own clients. After finishing the spreadsheet, we decided to make it available to everyone and we’re glad that so many people have found it useful as well.

8. Free Blogger Template Pack: Steampunk

Adapted from a WordPress theme used on jazzsequence.com for a long time, this template pack includes variations of the same basic template and layout with different geek and steampunk background images.

7. Free Blogger Template: dear Audrey

A feminine Blogger template that’s not too girly, this design has a vintage letter-writing theme that we like quite a lot.

6. Free Desktop Wallpaper: urbanshamanism

A dark and mysterious wallpaper, this design played with mysticism and the spirit realm and tried to adapt those to a warm, grungy, urban environment.

5. Free Desktop Wallpaper: Timeflower

One of our favorite wallpapers, this started out as a present for Chris from Erin which we adapted and made available to everyone.

4. Free Blogger Template: Polkadot Prince

3. Free Blogger Template: Polkadot Princess

Coming in 3rd and 4th respectively for downloads and pageviews are our brother and sister themes Polkadot Princess and Polkadot Prince. Essentially the gender-themed equivalent of its’ sibling, these two look great together and stand alone beautifully also. Our little 4 year old boy loves the Prince theme with the robots and airplanes, so we consider that a ringing endorsement!

2. Free Blogger Template: Last Bit of Summer

The warm colors of this Blogger template are thematic of the end of the summer and beginning of fall. We like this one so much, we were test-driving this template on one of our side project blogs for a while.

1. Free Blogger Template: Grandma’s Hat Box

Our first Blogger template and still the most downloaded by a wide margin. We took our penchant for creating unique web sites with real textures and applied that to the Blogger platform. We’re always excited to stumble on a site that uses Grandma’s Hat Box.