Comments on: Changes At ThemeShaper

By: Ian Stewart

Ian Stewart — Thu, 24 Apr 2008 17:07:45 +0000

Cool. Thanks, Adam. One small point: Thematic will be both more complicated and less complicated than The Sandbox at the same time. CSS is more my thing than PHP so one of my goals is too at least make that a little easier. Mainly by providing some fixed-width examples and throwing in a sample grid, a CSS reset, and some basic typography and element styling.

By: Adam W. Warner

Adam W. Warner — Thu, 24 Apr 2008 16:31:50 +0000

Hi Ian,

I just learned of your thematic project. I’m thrilled! As a WP evangelist and amateur themer, I am looking forward to using thematic as a base. I started with Small Potato’s theme making tutorial, then worked my way toward Sandbox and found it to be more than I needed for my skill level.

I find you, and the group of designers around you ( Adii and Justin), to be taking the direction with WP themes that I aspire to.

Thanks for thematic and thanks for sharing your knowledge.

By: Ian Stewart

Ian Stewart — Tue, 22 Apr 2008 21:13:48 +0000

You can browse the code on the project page (look in trunk). If you see something ugly feel free to leave a comment here or contact me. It’d be appreciated.

As far as a preview: eventually. That’ll come with the hullabaloo. But I’m a little conflicted about how to do it. I’ll probably do screenshots for Thematic and full demos for the templates. Again, eventually, with hullabaloo.

By: Nathan Bowers

Nathan Bowers — Tue, 22 Apr 2008 20:56:25 +0000

Is there a theme preview somewhere? Mostly I’m interested in how clean the markup is.

By: Ian Stewart

Ian Stewart — Mon, 21 Apr 2008 20:11:47 +0000

Thanks, Adii. I’m really liking their re-skinned cpanel too. Very cool.

Engtech: It was like providence. Fused contacted me—days before my hosting ended at the last host. They sponsor Open Source projects and lately they’ve been liking the WordPress.

Also cool: it’s a Canadian company.

… And if you want some help with those 7000 hits a day, I mean, like, you know, you could redirect to my site, right? I’m cool with that. I won’t make any promises about learning Ruby though. :)

By: engtech

engtech — Mon, 21 Apr 2008 19:48:39 +0000

Nice, how’d you end up on Fused? They contact you?

I’m looking on moving away from WordPress.com, and I would love a host that didn’t mind my 7000 hits a day.

By: Adii

Adii — Mon, 21 Apr 2008 17:50:45 +0000

Awesome to have you on Fused as well! They’ve been sponsoring / handling my hosting since late last year and I’ve never been happier or felt “safer” online.