New template: Basic Minimal

A new free website template has been published: Basic Minimal. It is a simple and, as the name implies, minimalistic design which makes use of a custom @font-face and some CSS3 text-shadows. The layout uses two columns, with a third column left empty to display the background image. This allows for some creative design experiments…

For the love of details…

During the last couple of days I have made a number of minor updates to the site. Mostly small changes that are invisible to visitors of the site, but which contribute to making the site a bit better. The site is now running WordPress 3.1, an update which will allow me to re-organize the template…

Try the new TemplateBuilder tool!

Today I am launching a new feature on andreasviklund.com, an online tool for building (and within a near future, publishing) complete websites out of the templates found here. It is called the TemplateBuilder, and it is free to use. It can be considered a beta launch since some features are not yet in place. But…

Inverting the colors of a template

When I published the Variant Artist template some days ago, I thought it would be a good example for showing how to change the light-on-dark colors into the opposite, with dark text on light background. It can be done in several ways, and this is how I prefer to do it. This is what the…

Themes for WordPress and Drupal

The WordPress themes page has been updated, all themes can now be downloaded either directly from this site or from the official WordPress theme directory. I have tested all themes with WordPress 3.0, made minor adjustments and added a new theme based on the default twentyten theme but with some added styles and colors from…

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