Comments on: "Stripped" Homepage Preview

By: Nathan Rice

Nathan Rice — Sat, 19 Jan 2008 02:10:38 +0000

@Chip
I’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.

By: Chip

Chip — Thu, 10 Jan 2008 22:39:05 +0000

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.

By: Nathan Rice

Nathan Rice — Mon, 07 Jan 2008 20:36:24 +0000

@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!
Nathan

By: Hafiz Rahman

Hafiz Rahman — Fri, 04 Jan 2008 00:21:44 +0000

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.