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Join us at The Farm

16. Nov, 2009 by Adii Rockstar in New Themes

Digital Farm – which was designed in-house by Mark – is the second “recycled” design that we’re releasing here, after my previous blog design (now Rockstar) made it into our themes collection. But where Rockstar was nothing more than a pretty cool free theme; Digital Farm should impress the hell out of you with a bucket load of premium features.

To give you a little history… Mark first launched this version of (his) Digital Farm on his own website about 3 years ago and if you’ve been following him since then, you’d know that this was the design that got him massive acclaim in international CSS design galleries (and pretty much kick started his career as an extremely talented designer). The great thing about this design is that it was still awesome & trendy enough to be featured on Mark’s site as late as a couple of months ago, when he redesigned and relaunched the next version.

So since we’re not the kind of company that enjoys wasting great design, we figured that Digital Farm could be repackaged and released on here. This is how we’ve transformed it…

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Digital Farm

16. Nov, 2009 by İlker Utlu in Personal Blog, Portfolio

Unique Features

These are some of the more unique features that you will find within the theme:

• A completely customizable header region with theme options to upload your own background header graphic and logo image.
• A tag based, optional sidebar slider to showcase your portfolio or any collection of posts/imagery
• A page template dedicated to showcasing all your older, archived posts for the sidebar slider above
• Complete control over excerpt vs content being displayed in the home pages blog posts, and archived posts
• 4 custom woo widgets and two widgetized sidebar regions for full control over your sidebar display
• 7 delicious alternate colour schemes to choose from, with two minimal, corporate designs for a completely different look and feel.

In perfect geometry

09. Jan, 2009 by Adii Rockstar in New Themes

It feels weird to be writing a blog post about a new theme release on WooThemes, when it’s my own theme – since I was only blogging about other designers’ themes on Woo for the last couple of months. The last time I blogged about my own theme release on Woo, was way back in July 2008 when we launched WooThemes and I released VibrantCMS. And yes – I concur – that’s waaay too long to wait to release a new theme… But onto this theme now…

Geometric is a blog + portfolio hybrid that enables you to showcase both your written and visual content within one template and one WordPress installation. I spent a lot of time to make sure that there was a seamless integration between the two different types of content on the site, which wasn’t really the case with our previous portfolio themes. For example, on a date-based archive page or search results page, the template automatically picks up what type of content it should display (written vs visual) and then makes it look easy and stylish at the same time.

The design itself is slightly more minimalistic and is defintely heavily inspired by my recent fascination with shapes and how they interact with each other (thus the name: geometric). You can also see a similar line of thinking when you visit my own blog.

The feature that I am however most excited about is the completely customized homepage of Geometric. If you’re used to widgetized sidebars or widgetized spaces in sections of the theme (we’ve implemented both these in previous themes) – you can prepare to be amazed, because your whole homepage on Geometric is widgetized! So basically we’ve developed a bunch of custom widgets (12 in total!), which you can move around on the homepage (and in the sidebar) – so you have total control over how you utilize Geometric to best serve your needs & ideas.

I trust that you will find value in these release, since I really enjoyed developing it. Also – this is my first release in a very long time – so go easy on me… But right now, you should head on over to the demo and have a play around the theme. After that, I’d really appreciate some compliments or just general feedback ya’know…

Notice: Geometric has already been upgraded to version 1.1.0 to accomodate 5 more colour schemes and an option to switch between a left- & right-hand sidebar [12-01-2009].

Freshen up your portfolio

01. Sep, 2008 by Adii Rockstar in New Themes

In the last few weeks, we’ve seen the growing popularity of our only portfolio / showcase theme to date – ProudFolio. So we thought it’d be nice to release another portfolio+blog combo theme… The result is our 10th theme and a mashup of Fresh News & ProudFolio – with the new theme being called Fresh Folio.

DESIGN

As mentioned, the basic design style was based on the Fresh News theme, whilst we’ve added some of our more popular styles on our other themes to Fresh Folio as well to increase your options.

The homepage is designed to both showcase your featured portfolio work (albeit web design, graphic design or photography), along with posts from your blog. The dual nature of the theme – and especially the homepage – allows you to take an integrated approach of publishing both your portfolio & blog in one, clean environment. Beyond the combo homepage, the rest of the theme is perfect for publishing a thought-provoking blog, as the portfolio sections doesn’t interfere there.

You’ll also find our base (default) theme styles very easy to customize (to suit your style and branding), since this theme is geared to being a framework theme for digital professionals that needs a portfolio & blog, but don’t have the time to take care of all the WordPress coding. In addition, you’ll also find our more arty / complex styles of value if you wish to go with a more out-of-the-box approach.

FUNCTIONALITY

Fresh Folio doesn’t function much differently from a standard blog theme, except that we use a “Portfolio Category” to basically highlight your portfolio items. As with all of our themes, we’ve included our standard basket of premium goodies to make your usage of the theme even more pleasurable.

We also think it’s worthy to mention that the theme only uses one optional plugin – Slimbox – to display the larger preview images for portfolio items. So the idea is that you can add a portfolio to your current WP blog in a few minutes, without having to adapt your current installation. Quick. Easy. And it works out of the box!

SO GET IT ALREADY!

What is keeping you? View the demo and if you like the theme, either buy the theme or – even better – join our awesome WooThemes Club and get all of our shiny new themes to play with!