Smashing Community WordPress Theme: Comment and Win!
While the Smashing Community icon set is being designed and prepared for the release, we would like to ask your opinion about the WordPress theme that you would like us to design. And here’s how it works: you tell us what WordPress-theme you need, and then we design it together with PSD to WordPress and release it for free.
And to make it a bit more interesting, we’ll smash three commenters with original nerdy laptop sleeves. To participate, just suggest an idea for a great useful WordPress-theme in the comments to this post. Details are below.
This image was based upon the design by our friends from SoftFacade who are preparing the Smashing Magazine icon set. Thanks, guys!
How do I participate?
Participating is very easy: just post the WordPress theme you would like us to design in the comments to this post (and, if possible, what specific features it should have) – it can be anything, e.g. portfolio-design, blog-design, lifestream-blog, magazine-style etc. The theme should not be basic, but it also should not be too complex.
On the 25th of April, we’ll select the most popular ideas and requests and publish a poll in our magazine, inviting our readers to vote on their favorite theme. Once it’s done, the creative minds behind PSD to WordPress will carefully design the theme. You can keep track of updates on Twitter @smashingmag and @LachyG.
Awards
A total of three commenters will be awarded Laptop Sleeves (see images below). The winners will be picked randomly and announced on Twitter (@smashingmag) after the concept of the WordPress theme has been chosen. The winners will decide by themselves, what size and what pattern of the sleeve they prefer most.
Finally, we’ll release the theme as a free download, which you can freely use for personal and commercial use.
Smashing Magazine Is All About Our Readers
At Smashing Magazine, our readers have always been our highest priority. We respect our readers; we listen to them; we are always open to their suggestions; and we always appreciate constructive criticism. This is why we created a number of ways to interact with our readers:
- We created a friendly Smashing Forum to make it possible for our community to exchange ideas and help each other in problem solving.
- We are using Twitter to share useful resources and knowledge with, and get feedback from, our readers (e.g. deciding which article should appear next), and we now have almost 29,000 followers.
- We are preparing the Smashing Book, in which our readers can decide what topics will be included.
And now we would like you to decide what theme we should design and release next, especially for you. We hope to get great feedback from you, and we would like to thank “PSD to WordPress” for its cooperation in this event. Please spread the word, too; we would like the design community to decide what would be most useful and interesting for designers out there!
So, what WordPress theme is it going to be, folks?
aniec2
April 21st, 2009 1:14 pmI want a business theme – classic and elegance (but not minimalistic).
le block
April 21st, 2009 1:15 pmMhmm. I don’t quite sure which typ of Theme i wanna see more. IMO @cnmoody (#41) and
Noirfatom (#81) are good approaches to agree with. Good luck guys! To me too ;0)
le block
aeolivas
April 21st, 2009 1:16 pmHello!
This is a really good question. First i love WP but hate most of themes because they are not friendly. I really liked the temes released before by you guys but they are not easy tu customize, i mean if i get one of them (beautiful by the way) everybody will know that i got them from smashing magazine. So i want a theme easy to customize, no grunge, no to much backgrounds, images, icons, a clean theme like the SM one. Would be perfect: 2 columns, a big header, sticky post in the homepage, comments reply enabled, and completely smashing.
Karen
April 21st, 2009 1:23 pmWP as a CMS theme…like something for a small business.
Scylla
April 21st, 2009 1:29 pmI would like a magazine theme like smashing magazine because i love smashing magazine in Every possible way :) A simple minimilistic magazine thing with functionality like the sm theme. The colours, the typo, the layout makes sm unique
daredanger
April 21st, 2009 1:42 pmA directory website theme.
A full fledged directory can be made with wordpress. But we rarely get to see a wordpress theme made for a directory website.
om ipit
April 21st, 2009 1:44 pmi wanna u create my archive page for my site. pliz help me.
this is my site : Cah Cepu
Andrew
April 21st, 2009 1:49 pmAn admin theme, that when installed, makes WP look like a CMS…
That would be sweet.
Greg Ponchak
April 21st, 2009 2:03 pmAn admin theme would be amazing. :D
Titsam
April 21st, 2009 2:11 pmIt’s will be great to have an arty design. Someting in Illustrator for example, with a mascot. Like a very creative magazine style theme. A design that invites the reader, someting more welcoming …
What about less spaces for Spansors (even if it’s vital, just less ? )
I just have an idea : what about creating an area in the page for a monthly subject ?
For example during one month, when the new posts are live, it will be a little highlight area for promoting classical or new fonts “Font of the month”, the same for “beginner designer port folio of the month”, the same for “best design book of the month” Etc…
~ZORRO~
April 21st, 2009 2:24 pmDear manager! Could you make the WordPress theme for me that will help me to find a job as a Web Developer? I done a lots of websites (which I`m proud of), working in my country, but now, I moved to another part of world (Canada, Toronto) and can`t find any place for work. So can you make a great portfolio-design for me, so I could have a job?
liquidtrends
April 21st, 2009 2:30 pmI would like to see a theme designed using natural elements and native american motifs to showcase Native American artisans and art.
Nerdmatic
April 21st, 2009 2:32 pmSomething involving sidewalk chalk and asphalt might be nice. Through in a pot hole for twitter updates and some jump rope for links.
dragoshell
April 21st, 2009 2:33 pmI would like to see a very good corporate-general-layout WP Theme which would have the layout structured around the CMS idea.
Want one now!!!
evander
April 21st, 2009 3:08 pmWell, I would love to see, actually, a beautiful woody WP Theme, with brown and beige colors (for the background) and maybe crimson for the post-titles and the main header. Something familiar to http://www.ernesthemingwaycollection.com/ (just an idea of what I imagine – nothing more!). Plus some space for useful plugins, like Twitter Updates, Links, “About me” (borrowed form Blogger), etc.
subetha
April 21st, 2009 3:25 pmAjax photo blog, one with full screen background slideshow. Would love to see how that works. Cheers
Eduardo
April 21st, 2009 3:37 pmNice vector art on the pencil cases.
Claudia
April 21st, 2009 3:39 pmI would like to have a girly magazine style in two or three columns, with gravatar and social media included. There are not many designs for girls :(
Therapix
April 21st, 2009 4:05 pmA portfolio layout would be nice :)
Jaclyn
April 21st, 2009 4:12 pmWith twitter popularity growing, along with other social sites I’d love an expertly done Lifestream-blog theme. It’s hard to find a nice theme for a personal blog, that’s good to customize and capable of integrating lifestream easily and stylishly. Brightly colored and not grungy. Maybe the theme could bring multiple styles [background image and CSS colors] for users to choose from. I’ve only seen this feature in a theme from MooTheme called, I think, Irresistible. Hopefully you pick this, I think it’d be popular.
Brad
April 21st, 2009 4:14 pmI would also say another magazine style as most of those out there are fairly poor. I would love to see some basic user personalisation though, maybe using jquery to enable elements to be able to be dragged around and some basic css colour changes combined with transparent png’s so the design becomes flexible… big wish list I know ;)
Aaron
April 21st, 2009 4:28 pmI would like to see a news+magazine style theme, something like yahoo front page with narrow left bar, content in middle and wide sidebar on the right with rich and professional colors and typography.
Nadia
April 21st, 2009 4:38 pmGuys, why not try something different. Make a theme related to Tourism. There’re a really few (and ugly) themes about it out there. Hope you can try it. :P
Arcílio Silva
April 21st, 2009 4:39 pmHi,
What about a WordPress theme for a scientific, academic, professional, and cultural events promoter that have to communicate elegance, class, sobriety, prestige, excellence, quality, tradition, but at the same time modernity, pro-technology, etc.
This WP could be aimed to communicate to users (agenda; services offered) and to give some support/information (forms, payments, follow ups etc) to individuals that what to make an inscription for events like Meetings, Congresses, Presentations, Seminars, etc..
Best regards
Asilva
Jen
April 21st, 2009 4:43 pmI’d like a WordPress theme that includes a Golden Snub Nosed Monkey (golden snub-nosed monkey) as it’s mascot, integrating the orange, blue, and brown tones of its coloring with the site’s theme. This theme should scream FUN, but be in a magazine style, with lots of room for image thumbnails and a few featured articles. A section for social networking (twitter, facebook, etc.) should be included prominently.
The challenge? Make it a grid-based design (grid based design.).
cPoL
April 21st, 2009 4:43 pmthis is the reason why I (really) love smashing magazine. And when asked my opinion, I’d like to have a theme that has a small area (top) for the portfolio and blog (bottom). Else, the theme aslo equipped with drop down menu (suckerfish-style) and those elements on the sidebar: flickr photostream, simple comment form and login form.
Can you make it for me (or can this comment make me a winner)? Sorry for my bad English :-D
Owen Hodda
April 21st, 2009 4:45 pmWould love to see a nice, simple “About Me” theme.
Less a blog, and more of a static page that can import Flickr, Twitter etc streams in a nice format.
Perhaps the ability to stream RSS previews of your other blogs and link off to them.
Sort of a ‘launch pad’ style.
Interested to see what you guys end up making.
JD
April 21st, 2009 4:47 pmA forum-based magazine theme!
There are so many forum-based communities out there, there are no real WordPress themes to compliment them. Many forum owners have terrific article writing ability, but resort of just making new forum threads instead of writing and submitting a real article to a front page of their site. A theme that allows for easy forum style integration (sharing styling elements from vbulletin, for example), along with a simple but effective photo gallery would be a great start. Then, being able to create pages to group entries into…such as specific topics like product reviews, industry news, featured articles, etc. that is more in the style of a magazine would really help out a lot of forum owners who need this sort of outlet.
Add easy advertising ability that is effective yet unobtrusive and you have a sure winner.
ScottyBee
April 21st, 2009 4:56 pmI would really love to see a nice WordPress theme that a designer could use for a showcase of their portfolio and, at the same time, advertise services. It would also be nice for you to include in the design a way for the client to pay.
Look forward to seeing what you come up with. I’m excited about the book too.
Jurica
April 21st, 2009 5:00 pmWow !!! How many wishes/comments, this article is obviously Bull’s eye hit.
Hey people, make your own themes ;)
Don’t just wait for SM to make theme for you…
Everyone want to publish something and they all just sitting and wait for somebody else to do hard work.
;)
Jimi
April 21st, 2009 5:54 pmA college radio website; Grungy style, color schemes- red and black,
with a cool featured content slider at the top.
LeeGustin
April 21st, 2009 6:00 pmI would love an awesome portfolio theme. One that could support a nifty way to display flash and video work would be amazing. A simple gray (#666) and teal (#39c) are always sexy as a combination.
Thanks
Thomas
April 21st, 2009 6:05 pmJurica I agree….but here goes my suggestion…
Portfolio Style Site -
Horizontal Style layoutwith multiple Slideshow options where each photo can be linked to a post, category or page.
Horizontal Multi-Level Navigation using “Multi-Nav” Plugin for easy customization.
T.O.C. in CSS or in a separte txt file, for easy manipulation
Don’t just do one template…do a Index Template, a default master template, and some optional interior layout templates, ….this way more people will find something they like about…
DON’T DO THEME OPTIONS….I hate them…have to clear out most of them just to manipulate the template…do it all in the css…
etc, etc, etc…and more stuff…and just keep going and adding other great things and then end it with a great signoff…and then look at it again and do one more thing right before you release it, but then don’t release it….sit on it…look at it again in a couple of days…then tweek it…then release it. LOL
Brandon
April 21st, 2009 6:08 pmThe thing I have yet to see anyone do great is a community section for user submitted content. Some will let you post links or pictures but I would like to see a theme that has some more community driven features like submitting guest posts and galleries.
Sam_Lv
April 21st, 2009 6:12 pmI like portfolio theme.
Mediumjones
April 21st, 2009 6:14 pmThere is a desperate shortage of nice clean simple LEFT NAV themes with cool extras such as: sticky footer, content focused (none of that huge sidebar advert. crap) sticky nav, no frames (just elegant confident lines to separate the tables) and what would be really cool is a theme set-up ready for excerpts with a custom image field so it gives you a nice cropped consistent image for each post on your home page.
Great post Smashing… Readers FTW!
Hakan
April 21st, 2009 6:18 pmWould like to see something tumblr-esque: sparse, geared towards minimal posts, but also expandable into full article format. Thanks!
Muhammad Hakim
April 21st, 2009 6:18 pmi want :
CPA provider that based on wordpress, which has:
- signup part for expertiser and publisher
- expertiser must pay using paypal or google checkout to list their product
- publisher can cashout their earning to paypal or bank account
- have jquery slide show of newest products listed
- have comments with commenter icons of the commenters
- have link to promote the product/service of expertiser to socio network sites
- glossy icons
- side bar with video of new tutorial
let me know if you can make it for me… :)
Calvyn Tng
April 21st, 2009 6:59 pmCreate a theme which can change templates according to the platforms its open on. e.g when browsed using a psp the site will change templates to allow better user experience.
Regards
Calvyn Tng
Http://epicprofit.com
Tessa
April 21st, 2009 7:33 pmI’d love to see a theme coherent with the current Smashing Mag site. It’s so easy to use and read! :D
Anthony Persaud
April 21st, 2009 7:49 pmI’d like to see a cool Hulu.com interface-like theme for when watching videos. This would be great for video blogging websites which would let users pick which episode to watch next. Maybe add some dynamic javascript magic, so that when they are done reading an article or select a video, it switches the same page to this hulu-like perspective to watch the related video. It should also detect whether it is a mobile device (iPhone) and adapt the viewing interface for it (nice to have).
Karen Kreps
April 21st, 2009 7:49 pmI’d like a fine arts porfolio theme with very neutral design elements that would showcase the work of a visual artist (3D or 2D). It would include a scrollable, zoomable portfolio of art images (with multiple views for 3D art); spaces for specifications about the art (e.g. date, dimensions, media, etc); pages for background info about the artist or the art genre, an ecommerce component so art could be sold online, an event calendar for art shows and classes, and a plugin for video or audio podcast so the artist could be seen talking about his art. The posts and galleries should be sortable by category (medium, artistic phase, date of creation). This could be used by non-artists, too. It would probably double as a website portfolio. Thanks for asking for our wish lists!
exitstencil
April 21st, 2009 8:38 pmi’d like to see a theme based on a personal CV, with links which pop out to show portfolio work done at each place of work. nice and colourful, interactive and fun for the employer. something which will be remembered.
Hector Garcia
April 21st, 2009 8:40 pmI’d love to see a theme that works well for a creative or design agency. Doesn’t necessarily have to be a portfolio theme, but a very clean design with a beefy home page allowing the promotion of different services offered, a featured project section, and large ad display that animates with JWgallery or something similar. Build so that the header is customizable with a lot of appearance options. thanks smashing.
Chris
April 21st, 2009 8:51 pmI would like to see a design with a cryptography theme. numbers, letters, runes, and such. somehow melding into a portfolio.
sirisha
April 21st, 2009 8:52 pmA simple but elegant robotic theme with silver , grey and light navy blue applet would look amazing.
myles
April 21st, 2009 8:57 pmi would like to see one targetted at one or both of the two least accomodated groups on the internet: elderly people and/or blind people. i think if you sat down and thought about what their requirements really are, and got creative to solve these – you would be surprised about what the theme would contain!
Ariyo
April 21st, 2009 9:22 pmI would love to see an e-commerce shopping cart theme. Also, It’ll be nice to have the PSD file in addition to the template files so we can change some colors around. (or you can release it is different color combination)
Thanks for all of your hard and beautiful works.
Cheers
Garrett
April 21st, 2009 9:28 pmI’d like to see a presentation style wordpress site for displaying full size web comps to clients. Something that uses the power of wordpress as a CMS to easily upload new image galleries into a click through presentation.
Jeff
April 21st, 2009 9:34 pmI am really interested in seeing a theme focused on video blogs or video podcasts.
Sugata Chaki
April 21st, 2009 9:37 pmI would like to have a army style that indicate to smash other’s site. there will be only smashingmagazine.The top of the site should be in army color and some army pictures that indicate to smash others site (indirectly).
Features:
Navigation:
home, about us, system, blog, meetings, testimonials, category, tools, chat, contacts
Body:
Main blog section, Search section, Blogroll, Archives, Categories, Popular entries, Tags, Themes, Meta (inside meta xhtml, wordpress, login, Comments)
Ravindranath
April 21st, 2009 9:57 pmI require a theme for a blog to illustrate the ongoing violence around the world with some bright dark colors.
Hope, it looks violent to make the people soft.
jpvaquez
April 21st, 2009 10:02 pmHi, i would actually like to see two themes. First a functional (really functional) shopping theme
that includes:
Store front, sidebar shopping cart, well structures product lists., and of course easy paypal integration.
2.- A one frame WP theme that handles all the links with a slider. something simple but unique (at least in a WP theme). So you could easily add sound.
Ejaz Siddiqui
April 21st, 2009 10:04 pmWe have lot of stunning wp themes having galleries and portfolio.
What I think what WP missing is corporate themes with smaller height (let say 1000px). WP usually has tall webpages which is not very appropriate for corporate.
WP should be raised to a level where it can be easily adopted for corporate sites as it has one of the easiest management system.
Rodrigo Penalba
April 21st, 2009 10:14 pmI would like to see a theme made for video posts, but thinking for a local tv channel that produces interviews, news, talk shows, and that the WP makes all the content flow in a beautiful cover page and each category page will be a line of shows (or subcategories) being listed. Also, a sidebar for advertising and widget stuff.
Saludos =D
Gerard
April 21st, 2009 10:43 pmA Shop theme! With control of the pieces, with a control of the stock per model and his variants like sizes, colors…
Payment systems and alarms to advice if the product is out of stock, etc…
Ernest
April 21st, 2009 10:46 pmAdmin interface would be awsome!
Thanks You guys, You make great job here.
Fábio ZC
April 21st, 2009 10:52 pmMake a portfolio-design with a lot of jQuerys! =)
Kilian
April 21st, 2009 10:55 pmSimple, clean should be nice !
Develover
April 21st, 2009 10:56 pmWordPress 2.7′s admin panel is awesome. But still I think there should be a design using jquery and CSS 3.0. And theme should be cool for eyes when visitors comes to view and also give some freshness to mind. So user wants to stay and comes often to visits more…. ;)
16volt
April 21st, 2009 10:56 pmthe world really NEEDS a good band theme for a music group. that’s my vote. a good band/music theme.
Mohammed
April 21st, 2009 11:00 pmI had been using wordpress as a hobby and for some local kindergartens & primary schools as an easy CMS that even non-computer teachers can manage.
Something I found missing in those free wordpress themes are Themes suited for schools. So my suggestion is to have a Free WordPress theme that schools can use.
The basic idea is simple. A simple, attractive, colorful interface. With beautiful & a bit elegant typrography (not the comic sans style). Should be css compliant and should work with buggy IE 5.5 also. jQuery Sliders for sliding school snaps would be nice.
Ideal pages should be withing 640px width.
It would be a great help for a lot of schools who looks for simple cms solutions for thier schools..
BTW…Thanks for such innovative ideas..
Way to go! Smashers
EcHoJanZ
April 21st, 2009 11:01 pmA MUSIC THEME!!!
i think web needs a quality music theme for a band, including an audio player.
Wannes
April 21st, 2009 11:05 pmI really like those themes who’s properties can be changed in the backend easily.
And with proprties, I don’t only mean the header image: it should be possible to have one theme which can be altered in such ways that it is possible to make it look different everyday if you want.
Just because people want to see a lot of differentiation in one website.
Sylwia
April 21st, 2009 11:09 pmPHOTO BLOG THEME
Smth suitable for Photo-blogs would be great! There are not many of them unfortunately…
devpkj
April 21st, 2009 11:09 pmtheme to manage projects for college going students …. which contains blog!
design should be full of students stuff like books, pens, all stationary materials randomly placed all over the screen with transparent images. Also it should convey the meaning of beginning of school days till completion of college days.
thanks a lot (SM)!!!
Mat
April 21st, 2009 11:10 pmI am teaching my students the benefits of using a utilitarian and flexible CMS such as WordPress for designing and maintaining sites and how tools such as Artisteer can help to get a better feel for the layout. They are coming up with some really great designs but a site whose layout really just has that polish would be mixing the simplicity of instabox.com with the cleanly-but-polished look of procaster.com. Yes, very 2.0ish but still a lot of draw and appeal and good flexing of CSS while still being color oriented.
wching
April 21st, 2009 11:10 pmSimple n minimal design by goin green and natural with all the colours of nature, green, blue and brown…
MWR
April 21st, 2009 11:13 pmA theme that has jQuery tools and a new interface design tool in admin that allow for drag and drop modification – like Blogger has but (obviously) much better. Icons would have to be layered.
Foread
April 21st, 2009 11:19 pmI like a portfolio theme, pastel color and simple usage.
with a beautiful js photo-gallery!
and that is all, folks
Timbo
April 21st, 2009 11:21 pmA photo blog please.
I’d like something I could post a daily or weekly photo to. The blog would show off the photo at a good size with room for details and maybe Exif info. A nice area for a link to Google maps or similar for geo-tagging.
Obviously lost of areas for widgets/plug-ins maybe a 2 or 3 column option? Plus customisable header and background. I like the idea of the background being able to change to reflect the overall colour of the feature image.
Lots more ideas, when I get into the final 3 (he he he) we’ll talk :)
Smashing Mag is absolutely Smashing, keep it up!
Filip Salindrija
April 21st, 2009 11:21 pmwhite and nerdy one.
Marko
April 21st, 2009 11:21 pmI think there are a lot of themes for blogs or magazines… so what I’m looking for is a theme for a small business (with product highlights, details, catalogues), hotel, something like apple.com
thanks
marko
Rafie
April 21st, 2009 11:31 pmPortfolio theme
- With clear indication of profile, services and product.
- Minimalist with a deep thought.
- Colour option
- Widget-ready
- Admin control
I’m sure that isn’t too much. If jQuery is to be used, this will really SMASH. Banggg!!!
Chris
April 21st, 2009 11:34 pmI would totally love to see a video game word press theme specifically for Warhammer Online: Age of Reckoning, that is guild-based.
This would allow guilds to go further as a unified group.
It should have:
a neat warhammer logo and replaceable if the group wants to
forums
an event type system (a calendar of sorts or perhaps a page strictly for events0
news system strictly for administrators
a media page for them to upload their videos/photos
and lastly integration of the Warhammer API (http://www.gamerdna.com/helix/warhammer) so members can look themselves, items, or missions up through a large database.
Man, that sounds fun and challenging!
Christoph Hochstrasser
April 21st, 2009 11:35 pmA clean magazine/newspaper inspired wp theme, with strong focus on simplicity and typography, subtle colors with a few highlights. A Portfolio would be a nice addition. The Front Page should also get on with large pictures for main articles.
greetings from Austria
ChH
nahnu
April 21st, 2009 11:49 pmi wish inbuild category based css styling in single posts.
Mahina
April 22nd, 2009 12:09 amIntranet suitable theme
While WP is a excellent platform perfectly suited to power a small to mid-sized company intranet, there are virtually no themes designed with this in mind.
Would love to see one, finally. :)
Daniel
April 22nd, 2009 12:31 amI’d love to see a nice handcrafted magazine WordPress theme.
John Wilson
April 22nd, 2009 12:38 amA travel blog!
I know a few people who are going off on travels around the world (me included hopefully) and want to blog to keep people up to date with their trip but all the free ones on the internet are old and pretty pants.
Including twitter & flickr feeds are a must! Also, following the pretty generic magazine theme structure, the category drop down menu could be countries and the sub categories can be cities & destinations in that country.
Nelson
April 22nd, 2009 12:45 amI would like a new black and white magazine theme..
tomas
April 22nd, 2009 12:53 amsport club web
there are a lot amatuer sport clubs that need to be presented on web.
* intro page with logo, big picture, latest article, commming events, SPONZORS,
* blog with all posts
* calendar, picture stream, RANKINGS + results,
Risa
April 22nd, 2009 1:06 amI see all the portfolio and designer and mag requests…feels like preaching to the choir to me so…I’d prefer to use the power of SM to help designers connect better to ‘regular and non-expert’ wp users, rather than designing for themselves which I can find in a dozen spots. Set a new bar for what a more typical user would use, make them lust for something they didn’t even know they could have…by creating a model for all here to aspire to provide to their ‘regular’ people/clients.
I’d love to see a wp theme in which wp is really used as a platform for an entire website approach that compels an ‘ahhhhh’ when seen. Static pages easy to generate. Blog space but doesn’t take over with recent/popular/roll/etc junk. audio/video easy to integrate. Text-content friendly to include and to read without strain. Clean, light, fantastic typography, rich color choices in select touches, lots of white space.
olybop
April 22nd, 2009 1:15 amHi, I’d like a simple portfolio theme with widjet ready, sociable connection, and special graphisme.
enjoy !
Linus
April 22nd, 2009 1:17 amHTML/CSS and no Flash. Box design which is horizontally centered and vertically centered. 960 (use of 960 grid system) or 1024 px wide.
Headline
Horizontal css drop down menu
Large main content window (with “Coda scrolling”)
Two columns of smaller content windows
Footer
benoit
April 22nd, 2009 1:46 amSport ! Sport ! Sport ! I would like to see a theme for “sport blog” (volley-ball) ! and I will move to WP ;o)
Rainbow
April 22nd, 2009 1:49 amHello everybody,
I’d like an awesome wordpress theme which regroups a kind of portfolio, magazine and corporate design. Only HTML/CSS/PHP/Jquery/Ajax but no Flash.
980px wide
Big Header
Homepage different other pages
Original Footer
Thanks !
Ned
April 22nd, 2009 1:49 amHello SM! I’ve recently had a client who wanted a Wordress shopping cart website for his Timber Company. I didn’t think WordPress was the right choice of platform for his website because he has a fairly large inventory and he wants to be able to update products on a daily basis. Personally I’m not sure if WordPress can cope with all that load and if it will work well as an e-commerce platform, but if it is possible then it would be magic! ;)
I’ve been considering about using Magento Platform, but I’m not very familiar with it. Even though it looks like a very promising e-commerce solution, I’d still prefer to stick to WordPress if possible because I’m very comfortable in working with that platform. Plus my client is going to be blogging a fair bit, so WordPress would be the perfect choice.
I’ve had a shot at using the wp e-Commerce plugin, but I’ve hit a lot of hurdles with that. If someone could design me a good WordPress e-commerce theme, then I think you would give me back a lot of my sleepless nights ;)
Besides I don’t think there are enough WordPress e-commerce themes out there. Hopefully someone would make a really awesome one soon. Colors for the Timber Company are Black, Yellow, and Marone. I use the 960.gs in a lot of my designs, so if that could be incorporated then it would be a bonus.
Thanx, and good luck!
Alex Sinov
April 22nd, 2009 1:52 amI was thinking about the “Thesis” theme and the integration of video on the first page, as a featured item. What I didn’t see in any theme is the possibility to customize the W and H of the div in question, according to the video’s W&H. You always have to get into the CSS code for that.
Michael
April 22nd, 2009 2:04 amA clean business theme with Magazine-like features.
Kristian
April 22nd, 2009 2:06 amHi!
I miss a traditional, standard corporate theme which is neither news nor image oriented – just content:
- Horizontal menu
- Left side menu from level 2
- Possibilities for right side menu/content
–> Easy to use, easy to update, easy to “sell” to many customers
Similar to:
http://www.hhs.se
http://www.statoilhydro.com
Maneesh
April 22nd, 2009 2:07 amWordPress = Blogging = Content
The Smashing Magazine WP themes have always been eye catchy, but perhaps given that they are free themes, disruptive innovation in terms of features haven’t been as smashing as the designs though they have been good in that front too..but not smashing.
With this community theme I’d like the following options:
Insert subscription option within a post:
Insert related post links as a box in between a post
Make archives more sexier than just a list of links
More power to the content – the design be limited to Font and Font color (links, blockquotes)
Right aligned site like inspirationbits.com
A scrolling twitter stream at the bottom or top of the site..running like a newsfeed..
A comment now option somewhere in between the post – basically if it is a long article and the reader wants to comment on a para then and there.. he clicks the button and is taken straight to the comment box..
Ok wait this is a free theme maybe I should cut down my demands :)
I am looking at an interactive blog that doesn’t compromise on reading – the visuals should emerge from the words.. an essay type blog
And lastly this is a wonderful idea.. makes me eager to know what you guys will conjure up..
tom hermans
April 22nd, 2009 2:18 amnice, colorful portfolio theme with some fancy jquery stuff and typography options (sifr, cufer..)
Tom
April 22nd, 2009 2:22 am1950s style with Polka dots theme would be nice including news, gallery, some info pages, poll and nice typography.
I would love that!
Rachel
April 22nd, 2009 2:27 amA sleek, smooth – not web 2.0 – and stylish typography-based (in the design, not a typography portfolio) portfolio design. It would not include a sidebar and instead all information that could be on the sidebar would be in the footer. It should include space for an image gallery, also with the ability to have a video/animation space to the portfolio, where video and/or animation can be viewed. The layout should include a horizontal menu, with hover drop-down menus. The footer would be large, with the ability for the footer to be widgetized. That’d be brilliant. :)
Lucijan
April 22nd, 2009 2:36 amSince today is the earth day, design something earthly :) Perhaps green/brown/blue colors combination, ecology and stuff :)
Kiki
April 22nd, 2009 2:38 amHey, what a great idea! :)
The worpress theme I’m looking for? Well, I’d like a simple blog -design, with some useful features. I would like to have some different typography, maybe in the title and in the lateral columns, with a live streaming in the top. Maybe a horizontal menu, a simple footer; something elegant but absolutely new.
Rawan
April 22nd, 2009 2:46 amI love WP and I am currently looking for a good quality portfolio theme for my website!
So I think it should be a portfolio theme with clean and simple design, bold colors, and the ability to personalize and customize it.
It can include a home page that links to the other pages if needed. it can be 2 columns, with a menu bar, simple footer, and a blog page.
Amer Aidi
April 22nd, 2009 2:49 amGreen Earth – theme that demonstrate a dutiful scenes from our earth that represent a deferent zones of the nature (e.g. oceans, forests, deserts etc..)
The theme will contains all these parts on one artistic scene.
Dragos
April 22nd, 2009 2:55 amhi. I’d like a simple and clean photography theme. Please use a black color scheme.
thank you.