Archive for January 2010
Building WPVote Part 7: Almost Done
Building WPVote has been a really interesting process for me. I have learnt stacks of new things, and through developing WPVote have added a pile of improvements to my WordPress theme Elemental. In preparation for the sites release on Monday here is a summary of what I’ve done so far…
New Theme, Accumulo, and New Free Plugin
In my plans for 2010 I said I wanted to release 3 premium themes, and earlier this week Darren Hoyt and I released the first of the bunch.
Accumulo – WordPress themeAccumulo is an RSS aggregation theme designed to imitate sites such as Popurls.com and Alltop.com, and in particular Darrens own WPTopics.
The unique selling point of Accumulo is the tabbed homepage on which you can place any ...
Building WPVote Part 6 : Planning for Lift Off
Now that the WPVote site is almost complete I need to prepare it for release.
Since I have developed online all I really need to do is redirect the DNS from the current site to my own servers. However there are a couple of things I should take care of.
The sites old content needs to be copied over to my installed version Set up a new development area ...Building WPVote Part 5 : Programming
I’m nearly finished with the design of my new WordPress voting site, WPVote, so now need to look more closely at the programming.
I enjoy dissecting WordPress themes, and since I also like code simplicity and minimalism (and am working with a child theme) I decided to strip out as much of the original WPVote theme as possible.
First I had to go through the theme files and work out which were ...
Building WPVote : Part 4b, The Logo Revisited
Last time I wrote about WPVote I got a lot of feedback on the design of the logo. I was actually quite happy with how it was looking but the comments got me thinking and I soon realised it wasn’t as hot as I first thought…
So I spent some time coming up with new variations and thought it would be interesting to get some feedback on them as well.
I designed the variations based on the feedback I had received. ...
Building WPVote Part 4 : Design
Once I had finished researching similar voting sites I was ready to start designing and building the WPVote theme.
To decide basic page structure I went with Balsamiq mockups and knocked out some quick reference designs. I had a firm idea in mind for how the theme would function so it wasn’t that hard to make the images, and Balsamiq is REALLY easy to use so I had my reference images built quickly.
As I mentioned in part 3 ...
Back and Forward: Plans for 2010
Of my ‘goals’ in 2009 I only officially finished half. This year I plan to do better.
I mentioned that I wanted to release 4 themes, of which I actually released 2 Mimbo Pro 2 and theme framework. Of the others, Regulus Pro is on hold and the Prologue style theme is banished into obscurity – however some of the code will be showing up on WPVote.
This year I plan to:
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