Archive for tag 'templates'

May 24 2011

Basic Presentation as a Drupal theme

The Basic Presentation CSS template has been ported into a theme for Drupal. The first release is made for Drupal 6.x, but a Drupal 7 version will follow. The theme demo reminded me that the position for the background image in the original template is set to ‘fixed’, which is not very good for pages with a lot of content. In order to improve the visual impression of the design, I will update the template tomorrow to replace the fixed background with one that follows along with the content no matter how long the page is. Drupal theme developer Jason “sk33lz” Moore (who made the Basic Presentation theme) has promised to update the theme with the new background position, so I will wait with adding the theme to the Drupal themes page until the template and theme have both been updated. Until then, you can get it from the official Drupal theme directory.

By Andreas • Build • 1 Tags: , , ,

May 18 2011

New forum launched!

After testing several forum solutions that were integrated with WordPress and the andreasviklund.com user database, I have come to the conclusion that none of the integrated forums worked as well as I hoped for. For that reason, I have moved the forum out of the main andreasviklund.com website and set up an external forum (based on Simple Machines Forum) on its own subdomain. By running an external forum, I can keep andreasviklund.com fast and efficient, while offering a much better user experience for all of you who are interested in discussing web design topics. I can also offer better support for template and theme users, and open up the forum for more topics than just support and discussions about the material on this site.

Go to the new forum »

One of the main cons is that previous users on andreasviklund.com will need to re-register to join the discussions and post own threads. Users on andreasviklund.com will get an e-mail with an invitation to join this forum, and suggestions for specific boards and features are very welcome. Let me know what you would want to see here, and I will be happy to add it.

Just like before, the forum is open for everyone to read but posting is restricted to registered users. To register, use this link: http://forum.andreasviklund.com/index.php?action=register. To login once registered, go to http://forum.andreasviklund.com/index.php?action=login.

I would like to wish you all welcome to the new forum, and I I hope that you will find it to be a useful resource for discussing templates, themes and web design in general!

By Andreas • Featured, Share • 3 Tags: , , ,

May 10 2011

Website templates and jQuery enhancements

I am currently writing on a how-to that I promised to do when I released the Basic Contact template, explaining how to insert a working contact form script into the template. The positive feedback from the Gallery template and the “How to add an image gallery” tutorial has inspired me to learn more about how jQuery can be used to enhance the features and usability of templates and simple HTML-based websites. Since I am a complete jQuery beginner myself, I am simply experimenting and trying different things. Whenever I manage to do something useful I write about how I did it, hoping that my experiences can be useful for someone else.

But I am much more of a designer than a coder, and I can not really present any learning material for jQuery itself. While it may be both interesting and educating to read about a beginner who is experimenting, it would of course be a lot more interesting to read tutorials written by developers who works with jQuery on a daily basis. I have previously encouraged both template and theme designers to join in and share their work and experiences here on andreasviklund.com, and it has led to some exciting co-operations and current projects which I will write more about later. But I would also like to extend my invitation to developers and backend coders. If there are any jQuery wizards out there who have worked with the andreasviklund.com website templates and enhanced them with different kinds of scripts, I would be happy to publish guest blog posts if you want to share your experiences or contribute with a tutorial or some other kind of material that could be useful for template users. Send me an e-mail if interested!

By Andreas • General • 1 Tags: , ,

May 8 2011

The 5 most downloaded templates


I was asked about statistics for the free templates, and which ones that were the most popular. After taking a look at the download counter logs, I can present a top-5 list for the last 30 days:

1. Basic Presentation (click to download)

2. Variant Stream (click to download)

3. Gallery (click to download)

4. Variant Creative (click to download)

5. Multi Options (click to download)

From this list, it is difficult to see that any special kind of design or feature is more popular than another. The most downloaded template in total is still andreas01 (click to download), the template with the least number of downloads is the green version of andreas07 (click to download).

By Andreas • Share • 6 Tags: ,

May 5 2011

Commercial templates and premium WordPress themes

A lot of website visitors are asking about commercial website templates and premium WordPress themes, two things that are currently not available on andreasviklund.com. At the moment, there are no plans to add any premium content to the site, but I have sent out e-mails to webmasters of some really good template and theme provider websites and offered them banner space for 125px buttons at a reduced price. In an effort to help template and theme users find good commercial resources, I will be making a number of reviews of commercial template websites – as well as testing premium WordPress themes. Look out for these tests in future posts, they will appear in a new category called “Reviews”.

If you have a commercial template/theme website and would want to place a banner to promote your products on andreasviklund.com, you can use this link to see the 125px banner offer on BuySellAds.com. If you choose to advertise on this site, I would be happy to review your products as well.

By Andreas • General • 0 Tags: , ,

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