3D Ohio is releasing a WordPress theme named Black and Tan. For anyone else thinking of making a WP theme, do so from scratch. If you think that you could save time by modifying an existing theme DON’T. This theme took at least a week longer and it required a lot of redoing code anyway (support for widgets, nasty CSS, etc). All future themes released here will be done by scratch. Here’s the feature list:
- READABLE layout – the thought process in the design of this theme was “reading posts”. There are a lot of very attractive themes with incredible amounts of Photoshopping and brilliant CSS, but it’s hard to read the posts. It’s a blog… for reading.
- There is support for WP-PostRatings by Lester ‘GaMerZ’ Chan. If you have this plug in installed, you’ll get 3 new widgets to utilize (Highest Ranked Post, Most Ranked Post, and Highest Ranked Post Category). Please support his WP Extention.
- 4 count them, 4 Widget ready bars! Don’t like the layout, feel free to change it!
- A trendy Web 2.0 colour pallete – trendy could be stretching it, the blog post on Modern Life was a year ago, it is kind of like saying “state of the art AJAX”.
- Trendy Web 2.0 hatches and rounded corners.
- Graphic representation of comments. If you have none, one, or more comments to your blog post, you’ll have the following images:
- VISTA inspired calendar, just a cleaned up version of the WP Calendar.
- PSD file to change your logo on top – if you want to keep the stripes and over lapping logo to body.
Last but not least, you can download it here: LINK
If you plan on trying this theme out, I’d really appreciate it if you click on one of the Google ads to the right. It doesn’t cost you anything…
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The psd files… What about those that want to change the logo but don’t bother to buy photoshop?
Moshu,
You can delete or change the bt-logo.png to a transparent logo of your choice, the only difference is that you won’t get the over lapping shadow. I’ve also added a blank .PNG file that you can download to add your logo with the editor of your choice. Here: Blank Logo File
You’re right, I should have put this in the original distribution. I’ve added it to the internal download zip file. Thanks for pointing this out!
-Dan
Hello,
well placed, I thought.
Just wanted to say thank you.
And that I clicked on ALL of the google ads.
I actually found this page through this wordpress forums post. So thank you for the ’shameless plug’
Very cool calendar cleanup.