“Stripped” Homepage Preview
Hey guys and gals, I’ve been working pretty hard lately to make sure the bills are paid, but during some downtime, I finished up the homepage for my newest free theme release, Stripped (click the link for a demo image).
I really love the “barely there” minimalistic look of this theme, and I really can’t wait to release it! It still has some work to be done on the inner pages, but it’s 90% complete, and just needs a few finishing touches.
However, I am still debating in my mind how to go about releasing “color packages” or other options as a way to compensate the time it took to develop this theme. That part of the process will probably be the most time consuming (developing the color packages, and figuring out how to release them).
It’s an experiment, that’s for sure. If you have any ideas or feedback for this project, I’d love to hear them in the comments below!
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4 Responses to ““Stripped” Homepage Preview”
Hello, nice looking theme there! I imagine that right-aligning the “Posted by”, “Posted on” etc text while left-aligning each of its values would look better. Or Give it more space between meta name and value(a la Subtraction).
I’m not sure whether you’re still debating in mind about how to do the packages technically, or how to do the whole thing completely (promotion, distribution, etc), but technically, it’s either:
1. Creating a separate stylesheet, and then put detailed info on how to include the color (”put this in Stripped’s dir, add @import to the CSS”)
2. Creating a new, stylesheet-only theme using Stripped as the basis. Just like how many themes are built on top of Sandbox.
I think #2 is the least confusing method for user, so if it were me I’d go with it.
Comment made on January 3rd, 2008 at 5:21 pm@Hafiz Rahman
I think you’re right on point #2, if I understood you correctly. What I’ll need to do is just make multiple packages that include the necessary stylesheet for the particular color scheme.
I can have each color scheme separate for, say, $5 per color. Or … offer all the colors (let’s just say 5 variations for the sake of argument) for $20. That seems like a good deal to me. For the one with all the colors, I can even add a theme option so you can select the color scheme you prefer.
Thanks! Appreciate the feedback!
Comment made on January 7th, 2008 at 1:36 pmNathan
I really think you should use some silk icons on that theme. It would add a professional look to it.
Other than that, it’s a minimalist theme and I like it.
You should implement some stylesheet variable change in the Dashboard (i.e. Options for current theme with your predefined colours).
A quick tip just before hitting the “Submit Comment” button, some stripes background would be nice. I don’t know, it might look good.
Comment made on January 10th, 2008 at 3:39 pm@Chip
Comment made on January 18th, 2008 at 7:10 pmI’m actually trying to keep this theme “imageless” this time … to keep it as “minimalistic” as possible. But the code should be easy enough to modify so people can do all kinds of crazy things to the theme to make it look sweet.
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