Archive for the ‘Elemental’ Category
Elemental is a WordPress theme framework designed by the talented folk at Pro Theme Design
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 ...
Art Direction
I have recently published my first ‘Art Directed’ posts on Binary Moon – namely my reviews for the movies Coraline and Up.
Ever since I saw Jason Santa Marias art directed site the idea has brewed in my head that I would do something similar, so when I redesigned I kept that wish in the back of my mind so that new designs could be slotted in easily.
What is ‘Art Direction’?To be perfectly honest I have ...
Elemental WordPress theme released
Shortly before I went on holiday last week Darren and I released the Elemental WordPress theme on Pro Theme Design.
The theme has been a labour of love. It is the most comprehensive and advanced theme I can make, and will form the backbone of all my future themes.
You can see the release post over on Pro Theme Design, and read the full spec on the Elemental WordPress theme details page.
If you check out the release post, you will ...
What’s new with the Elemental WordPress theme?
Elemental is the upcoming theme framework for Pro Theme Design. It’s been in development for absolutely ages, and the code is really showing it’s maturity, and I am really pleased with the possibilities it opens up.
The focus when developing Elemental has been to keep things as straight forward and easy to use as possible. The code is simple and minimal, and the features have all been chosen to reduce the requirements of third party plugins incorporating many of the ...
Binary Moon WordPress design vIII
As I briefly mentioned on Monday, I have finally redesigned Binary Moon.
I actually started redesigning about 2 years ago. Initially it was going to be an update rather than a totally new look, and I even built most of it, but I just wasn’t entirely happy.
Then last year I started building what would become my soon to be released framework, Elemental, and the logical progression from that was to use it as the base for the site you see ...
Binary Moon version III – now live!
This is a very quick post, purely to say that the new Binary Moon design is now live (so click on through if you’re in a feed reader).
I will do a proper write up next week, pointing out some of the many new features and different things I have done. There’s been a lot of time and effort spent on the theme, most of which is in Elemental – the new theme soon to be released by Darren ...
Elemental Development (aka what I’m doing at the moment)
Earlier this year I said I was ‘back in the swing‘, posted a few times, and then vanished.
The reason isn’t that I have nothing to say (although I have less than I used too) but that I am in the middle of redesigning this website… which will also include a server move. I moved over all the files and databases about 2 or 3 weeks ago, and now I don’t want to have to update everything again.
Unfortunately I can’t ...
