Winnipeg artist Jazmine Rhomyk-Rountree needed a gallery site for her very diverse art portfolio. Using the WP ESP framework, we built a very straight-forward gallery site for her rather quickly, and launched immediately. So far the response has been good. What do you think?
Check out Jazmine’s site – prints and originals are on sale now!
The Fiction Press theme made its debut on IanMRountree.com in early June, and has seen a number of incremental changes since it was first launched. Eventually, it will feature a full publishing platform aside from the main blog system for essay-length entries, as well as a calendar system.
Laut Sprecher was originally designed for The Dowager Shadow as a presentation theme.
Laut Sprecher places as much focus on the text as possible, treating the tall, colourful header and footer like the covers of a book. I made sure the typography and headers were easy on the eyes, and tried to keep all of the focus on the text.
It’s a fairly minimalist theme, designed both for easy navigation between serialized segments, and for use as a simple blog. I wanted to make sure it stayed true to one purpose; sharing creative writing as broadly as possible.
For ease of use, I included some custom “New post” and “New page” buttons for logged-in users over Contributor level. It’s a small thing, but it can make a difference for fast posting and accessibility.
Future versions may include social networking badges and a better integration of RSS feed choices, as well as some other features if I get any good responses about the theme.
I’m not releasing Laut Sprecher publicly just yet – it’s not ready, and not generic enough at the moment. I’ll be posting both versions of this theme here eventually – at the moment, one is still in use, so it’ll remain by special request only.
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- Laut Sprecher – Dowager Shadow
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- Laut Sprecher – IanMRountree.com
The Lonely Universe theme powered both The wings of Wax Project, and IanMRountree.com for more than two years, in various incarnations. It’s become a light-weight, artistic micro-CMS aimed at breaking the standard WordPress form.
This version of the theme was based on the Pretty Spots theme, and borrows some features from a number of other freely available themes from the WordPress Codex. Since the Wings of Wax Project has closed down, and IanMRountree.com is taking a vastly different route as a professional blog, I’m happy to let this one off into the ether – Do what you will with it, and please feel free to leave comments if you manage to fix any of the issues it’s got.
Known issues at the moment include a total failure of the theme options page. Lonely Universe was built to include generated links for Twitter, LinkedIn and facebook profiles on the main page sidebar, as well as a small bio pulled from an About page. the About function was stripped out, and the profiles links designed around, as they were a fairly low priority for debugging.
I’ve also built in a Tumblelog function, which I’ll work on documenting better for subsequent releases.
The theme itself is stable on WordPress 3.0-Beta1, includes seven widgetized areas, and a jQuery-powered dropdown menu for themes and admin for logged-in users, with links based on user role.
Enjoy!
Lonely-Universe-1-0-18 – .zip file
