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Design News

02.03.2010 – Big Update

• Extensive admin panel
• Color options feature removed (the source for all the problems)
• No more external plugins – all is built in
• CSS bugs resolved
• The majority of the code rewritten
• Custom menu options (You can to list pages, categories, custom links)
• Posibillity to change the orientation of the sidebar (left or right)
• Pagination options
• Post options
• A lot of small features

You can also check Designer’s Pit Community Theme

Community theme is an easy to use, configurable theme with features oriented on community blogs, where posts are published by multiple authors.

New features

• Featured posts
• CSS bugs resolved
• Logo upload bugs fixed
• Miscellaneous code improvements

All features can be modified from the Community theme options admin page and also from the widgets.

• Chosoe how the theme is displayed, one column or two column, the default is to have a left column that holds the template and a sidebar with widgets. For your convenience the theme contains a one column page template that you can choose for different pages enabling you to mix and match display styles to meet your needs. Also you can switch the orientation of the sidebar (left or right)
• Javascript animated category menu that degrades gracefully if javascript is not available. You can choose from 32 animation effects and adjust the overall speed of the animation. If you don’t like the animations you can disable them giving you a classic menu.
• The theme allows you to add widgets to three areas: a right sidebar that becomes the right column of the blog (this will be hidden if you activate one column mode), a post footer that is displayed only on the post pages and a general footer sidebar that is always displayed.
• Each post can have an image attached to it and it will be displayed by the widgets as a thumbnail and inserted in the post text. You can upload the post image directly from the post page. The theme options page also has settings allowing you to change the size of the image inserted in the posts and the size of the thumbnail displayed by the widgets. The original image will be automatically scaled and resampled before being displayed.
• Collapsible sidebar widgets. You can disable this behaviour from the theme admin page (the Ads widget cannot be collapsed, for obvious reasons).
• Authors can set their Twitter screen name on the profile page and a “Follow this author on Twitter” link will be displayed in the “About the author” section.
• Sifr font replacement that gives you nice headings and post titles. If you don’t like this feature you can easily disable it from the admin page.
• Feedback button that goes to one of your pages. You can choose wich one.
• You can easily upload a custom logo.
• The theme integrates nicely with Twitter so you can have your own account for the blog community. If you set your screen name in the admin page, the last tweet from your account will be displayed on the front page along with your twitter avatar and a “Retweet” button.
• Customizable footer text (eg. for copyright notice, terms of service…).
• Integrates with FeedBurner .
• You can insert custom HTML code in the theme footer. This enables you to easily add tracking code to your site (eg. GoogleAnalitics).

Fonts used:

• Arial—system font
• MgOpen Modata – free font—http://www.zvr.gr/typo/mgopen/index

Icons used:

• For social – http://www.chazzuka.com/blog/?p=186
• For user in comments – http://www.webappers.com/2008/02/12/webappers-released-free-web-application-icons-set/

Thank you!