kennibc
Member
Posted 15 years ago #
Well, I had this old template sitting around and I hacked it up pretty severely. I can't remember who the original author was, but it had fish in it AQuaria??? Maybe. I only used the top portion of his theme with the menu buttons and would like to give credit.
I added Mootools to do a neat little "Slide Action" when you click on the "Pick a School" icon. I am also hoping to add some ajax page request to dynamically load some extra content into "DIV's" as I make some improvements.
Here is version 1 of what I hope will be a pretty cool theme once I really get going with it.
http://blog.dearbornschools.org
josephd
Member
Posted 15 years ago #
Oh it's nice, where can we get those lovely templates for home page?
nice theme. are you bringing it up because youre gonna release it or sell it?
Quick look at the source shows the name of the original theme. :)
kennibc
Member
Posted 15 years ago #
Thanks Andrea. As I mentioned, I had downloaded the theme a year or so ago and then I had hacked it all up. There was some type of fish on it I believe and it had some bright orange in it.
In any event the homepage is created entirely via widgets. I am not sure this even follows proper theme building standards. It is definitely for your Main page only as using it on regular blogs would make for interesting results.
I am working on creating a theme completely from scratch. It will be geared for K-12 education and I am hopeful that the code will be more in line with wordpress theme standards.
I will try to post a screenshot of what I am working on and yes, I will release it free.
Klark0
Member
Posted 15 years ago #
Why do you keep teh spammy links at the bottom of your user themes. Those are usually the first thing I get rid of. Then I find the original theme author and credit him/her.
kennibc
Member
Posted 15 years ago #
I guess it is laziness or not enough time. I am a one person department and I service all staff members in 32 schools. That includes any training and support for all of our web tools: Wordpress MU, Moodle, Mahara, Joomla, PHPMotion Video Sharing, Gallery, and I have a wiki in the works to replace each school website. Eventually, I'd like to be able to force all of them to use a district or school website theme that I create. I am just now learning how to create themes.
Does anyone know of a good theme that is commented so you can learn from it?
Klark0
Member
Posted 15 years ago #
I work with/learned from themes made by Brian Gardener. He has some nice freebies, but his premium ones are fantastic. I bought the dev pack, and I usually use one of his themes as a base to start off with.
@kennibc - any simple free theme woudl do. I don't recommend learning off of the default theme Kubric though. Classic would be better.
@Klark - yeah he packs a lot in. I think they're decent.
kennibc
Member
Posted 15 years ago #
Thanks!
Actually, that is what I did. I just downloaded one of the newer themes and I am now working on slicing up my html and pasting it into index,header, sidebar, single, etc. I should have something over the weekend hopefully.
kennibc
Member
Posted 15 years ago #
I got a new theme up and running. This one was entirely created by me, however I used a Style Sheet from another theme just so I could ensure I had all the basics elements of a theme covered. I will make a new post about it since this one is dead with the removal of the old theme that I just hacked up.