Published on April 20, 2009 in free themes · 4 comments
BlackCat is a two-columns free WordPress 2.7 theme, with widgetized sidebar, fixed width, a minimal white-gray-black color scheme and a cute cat in the header.
Genesis
This theme was made on demand. One of my friends, very found about cats, asked me to design a theme featuring a feline. And so I did. The cat in the [...]
Published on April 13, 2009 in tips and tricks · 7 comments
Squaring the circle is a mathematical phantasm born in antiquity and proved to be impossible in the 19th century; it consists in attempting to draw a square with the same area as a circle.
Today we’ll turn the quadrature problem upside down and try to convert a square image into a round one.
I mean really ugly. Yes, we see beautiful websites, subscribe to CSS galleries to spy on competition or to find inspiration, link to blogs with unique designs, craft themes for public releases, but this is only the illusion we’ve chosen to live in. The sad fact: users will never see a website the way we [...]
Published on April 6, 2009 in free themes · 39 comments
Typogriph is a two-columns theme, with a liquid layout and support for all the features introduced with WordPress 2.7. Its design elements are solely typographic, and its main purpose is to value your content.
The genesis
I know it isn’t quite usual for theme authors to tell stories about how they made a theme, but I really [...]
Published on March 7, 2009 in Design · 4 comments
I was designing OrangeJuice and wanted to spice it a little with some mouseover effects. Everything was going smooth and easy and I was thrilled about the results. For a moment I even forgot about ranting against IE6; oh, what a glorious moment of aesthetic contempt, what a contemplation of ideas in act. And then, [...]
Published on March 4, 2009 in free themes · 24 comments
OrangeJuice is a two-columns free theme, specially designed for WordPress 2.7, with a liquid layout and some typographic accents.
I spent a graceful weekend developing it and I really hope you’ll enjoy the results.
The story behind
This theme was born in the kitchen. It was early in the morning and I felt a little dizzy. I definitely [...]
If you decided to run a celebrity gossip blog, but don’t want to pay for a premium theme, there’s still hope: just look at the themes listed below, test them and make up your mind. Or you could be patient and wait for my next release (a free magazine-style theme called Gossip).
During the last year(s), the main interest in the WordPress comunity was undoubtly the emulation of magazine websites; the previously blogging platform became a full CMS, and theme authors have become preocupied in turning the classic blog layout into a magazine-like design. A new era of theme development was born.