Comments on: The Daily Edition design process with Liam McKay

By: mrak911

mrak911 — Mon, 16 Nov 2009 13:25:34 +0000

Very interesting, thanks.

By: premiumthemeclub

premiumthemeclub — Thu, 01 Oct 2009 12:10:50 +0000

It really has great features like video player in home page by java script. as Liam said in his quote that he has packed this theme with full of features and easily customizable in a variety of ways yet quite minimalistic in design. Great work done by him and wooteam

By: downsouth

downsouth — Tue, 22 Sep 2009 01:08:54 +0000

This theme certainly blows away huge amounts of space, but for what it is I think it works well. It’s suitable to really showcase a selected stream of high quality content, and have it standout, free from clutter.

The amount of fresh content on display isn’t too disimilar to the mockups of InStream (name right?), but InStream feels much more cluttered imo because of the oversized sidebar.

The only thing I’m not that keen on is the slider coding. The slider looks good, and I want to use it, but seems to be a bit of a resource hog.

By: Michael Robert Powell

Michael Robert Powell — Mon, 21 Sep 2009 18:16:56 +0000

Flashy: I disagree; way-too-many WP themes are cluttered, dense lay-outs with too many options / info, and usually too much crap, especially Ads. I reckon the big white space is great as it gives a place for the eyes to rest and, really makes CONTENT STAND-OUT – great, if your site is dense with ORIGINAL images & video, etc.

I love this theme … but each to their own … there’s no definitive answer for life, let alone a definitive WP theme.

Regards – MRP [ AKA the candy trail ... ]

By: Michael Robert Powell

Michael Robert Powell — Mon, 21 Sep 2009 18:07:34 +0000

Thanks.

While I still have Thesis – awaiting the hyped 2.0 release – for possible other sites I found the lack of skins and my total lack of CSS abilities (not interested in learning it, either, as my time, between traveling constantly, is spent learning graphics / video software for my blog content) and so re-designing Thesis to look great and adding workable plug-in sliders, etc, just proved too frustrating and time-consuming for a code-novice like me.

BESIDES, I have been aware of WOO since the start and have been tempted to change-over-themes constantly this past year … but didn’t, til now … Glad I did !

Woo themes is seriously the best place for WP themes.

Regards – MRP

By: Magnus Jepson

Magnus Jepson — Mon, 21 Sep 2009 08:28:42 +0000

We think the correct use of white space makes this theme stand out. And I think most will agree with us. I haven’t studied design unfortunately, but I believe I have an eye for good design

By: Flashy

Flashy — Mon, 21 Sep 2009 07:55:34 +0000

Can you please redo Daily theme. It has one major flaw in its design. Too much space. I dont know did you studyied design or anything, but you failed with finding the balance of space and content. Huge padding just kills this it.

By: Adii Rockstar

Adii Rockstar — Mon, 21 Sep 2009 06:06:03 +0000

Thanks for that; I’ve amended the link now!

By: Adii Rockstar

Adii Rockstar — Mon, 21 Sep 2009 06:03:15 +0000

It’s awesome to see that you have switched from Thesis to one of our themes! The site is looking fantastic and those photos are really stunning.

By: Basilakis

Basilakis — Sun, 20 Sep 2009 17:42:09 +0000

Liam link in the top, gieves an 404page error because the link is wrong. Check it out

By: thecandytrail

thecandytrail — Sun, 20 Sep 2009 14:15:26 +0000

Hi Liam.

Thanks.

Exactly the look and functions I was dreaming of …

Great work – I bought your theme yesterday and had it running fast, after a test version, everything behaving nicely – pics, video, loading in (one small footer thing: for forum) but awesome despite that I that had an intermittent web connection and some uploading / downloading hiccups here in Guatemala, during a big storm, at mellow San Pedro on the shores of Lake Atitlan.

I changed my site from THESIS to WOO, which is better for my present needs and soothes my close-to-zero coding abilities so that I can chill and focus on content.

You my check my revamped blog – w/Daily Edition – on the link above.

Regards – MRP [ the candy trail ... on the road across the planet, since 1988 ]

By: Magnus Jepson

Magnus Jepson — Sat, 19 Sep 2009 11:01:49 +0000

Fixed!

By: Magnus Jepson

Magnus Jepson — Sat, 19 Sep 2009 10:29:37 +0000

That is one for the support forum

By: downsouth

downsouth — Sat, 19 Sep 2009 01:01:39 +0000

Thanks Woo for including these backgrounders – it’s most interesting. I love this theme. To me it has the ideal blend of out-of-the-box style with excellent and easy opportunities for customisation.

One general observation: I’d really like to see some typographic options as well as overall colour changes in the options panel. For example, I’m not a fan of forced capitalisation.

By: Gerald Lucas

Gerald Lucas — Fri, 18 Sep 2009 15:52:24 +0000

I really like this theme and planned to use it. However, it’s the only one of your themes I never got to work correctly, even after turning off all of my plugins and playing with every option.

The problem was that the articles on the main page and tag pages looked like they were embedded into each other along one narrow column on the left. I know this is something for the support forums, but maybe this one was released too early?

That said, I generally love your themes and moving to another usually only takes several minutes to make work. With this one, I was not so lucky.

By: Case

Case — Fri, 18 Sep 2009 15:05:22 +0000

Sorry, just seen Dave’s already pointed this out.

By: Case

Case — Fri, 18 Sep 2009 15:04:51 +0000

I’m getting 404′s on the wallpaper links

By: Dave Sparks

Dave Sparks — Fri, 18 Sep 2009 14:41:17 +0000

Nice theme and nice talk through the thought processes thanks.

(The links to the wallpaper don’t work, they should read uploads/2009/09/ rather than uploads/2009/08/, at least the links I found elsewhere are 09)

By: Ahmed

Ahmed — Fri, 18 Sep 2009 13:11:14 +0000

This What make this theme different Its open For ideas For Creativity

Nice Theme Ilove the dark Edition

By: momo

momo — Fri, 18 Sep 2009 12:55:45 +0000

Very interesting, thanks for sharing