Getting Back to Business
As we’ve been promising, some “good ‘ol traditional” themes are on their way and today’s release is just the start of this sequence which should last for about 5 / 6 releases (before we go a bit niche again).
Our new business theme, is the beautifully designed Boast (done by Liam McKay) which sports a very nice, Apple-like gloss.
The Homepage
Boast’s awesome homepage really makes this theme shine (yes, you get it: the design is glossy) and we’d like to believe that the possibilities & opportunities that this offers you is very valuable indeed.
First up, we have a very different featured slider to the one we normally integrate. We’ve reserved a lot of space for the very first messages that you communicate via your website and as a result, the space is extremely prominent & flexible.
Beyond the featured space, we’ve also included a very nifty widgetized space, which acts as a secondary, featured space of sorts. This is what it looks like:
Widgetized & Scrolling Enabled
You’ll note that each of those boxes includes a little down-arrow, which scrolls the content in the box. The idea we had here was to include as much information as possible without taking up too much space, as the homepage is still your most prime web real estate.
The flexibility is topped off by a 5-column widgetized footer; so it is really possible to construct your homepage exactly as you wish.
Boast!
This new design will definitely give your business something to boast about. The design is ultra-modern in terms of style, whilst the structure is superbly flexible (as I’ve described above), which will allow you to bend the theme to serve your exact & specific needs.
The theme includes all of our standard goodies (custom widgets, page templates, the WooNav etc.) and by now you should know that this means that we have your business’ back covered. This is thus definitely a theme you need to consider… Check out Boast’s theme’s features or have a look & play with the demo.
20 Responses to “Something to Boast About”
Extra Ordinary Business WordPress theme.. I like it
Very nice looking theme, I like it a lot!
Very nice work. I really appreciate the multiple featured content implementation. If I were taking implementing this for a design pro, I would probably tweek the implementation of the portfolio, since it dead-ends with a single post rather than a gallery type page or javascript slider. I’ll make a purchase.
great new theme! I just have a quick question…
Are woothemes planning to build any buddypress themes? I 100% love your themes and it would amazing if you release themes JUST for buddypress… any ideas?
thanks in advance
Nathan
Buddypress is the context of my site development. The conversion process is relatively easy, and with WP 3.0, buddypress will just be a plugin to the combined WP/WP-MU. It would definitely benefit Woo to be thinking about how to facilitate Buddypress along with the rest of the 3.0 features, but it’s already doable. Woo could easily create BP-ready templates for home, member profile, and group pages. Good idea.
a top notch theme. congrats woo team.
Can the top area of the home page have text or is it photo only?
is any one using it in the real world yet?
Dammit, this theme really kicks ass! I love it!
Cheerio, keep it up!
You added one more excellent theme in your themes.. Keep it up!
I think this theme is really nice especially the featured home page display area. I do agree with Schaeffer though that the gallery section would really help to perfect the theme by adding a more accessible portfolio as clicking on the images takes you in to a post which really means you have left the portfolio so would be nice to have a light box or something to display the gallery images on the gallery page. Other than this though it’s a great theme and I am very pleased to see the development of another business theme.
We’ll take this into consideration as a future update, as Boast wasn’t entirely aimed at being a portfolio theme, which is why we didn’t pay a lot of attention to that. We will however consider tweaking some of this functionality.
That would be fantastic – boast looks like it has great potential for a business/portfolio site – there havn’t been many portfolio templates recently and some of these recent (brilliant) designs your producing would be perfect!!!
Yeah that would be a really nice addition as it is a great theme. I am sure I will still make a purchase of this one soon anyway though as it looks great. Nice work.
I’m getting closer and closer to just going for the full membership…all of your themes are awesome! Keep up the great work!
Can we use video in the featured posts?
Unfortunately not in this first version of Boast.
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