Comments on: Switch Themes

By: Nicole

Nicole — Mon, 16 Feb 2009 06:49:32 +0000

I’m going to have to take a look at those themes… although I have given up almost entirely on IE’s rendering capabilities. It’s becoming to a point where I am pondering whether to make a separate set of pages once it is detected IE is being used, or keep up with whatever CSS hacks I may be able to find to keep it all within the same pages… but I’m almost on my way to going live with a WordPress installation on my site, even though I very much enjoy programming everything from grounds up.

By: Jeff Starr

Jeff Starr — Sun, 15 Feb 2009 17:22:22 +0000

@Vrbo: Thanks, Victor! Looking forward to seeing it if you decide to go that way :)

@Matthew: Yes, one of these days I will be releasing all of my themes to the public. Unfortunately, it won’t be any time soon because I am overloaded on paid gigs for the duration of the foreseeable future. One of these days, though! ;)

By: Matthew

Matthew — Fri, 13 Feb 2009 04:38:40 +0000

You are an amazing guy! I love your posts, they are so helpful to web designers and your themes are beautiful. Do you have any plans to make the Quintessential theme available for download? I look forward to trying out some of your themes on my future websites.

By: Vrbo

Vrbo — Thu, 12 Feb 2009 20:44:08 +0000

Jeff,

Was looking for a theme and stumbled upon your page, sweet themes! I am putting a wp-blog on my site and wanted to have a different layout then my home page to make my users feel like its a personal blog as apposed to someone that is writing from within the company. I am considering using your Apathy theme…. will keep you updated if I use it.

Thanks
-Victor

By: Jeff Starr

Jeff Starr — Mon, 19 Jan 2009 17:17:55 +0000

Thank you Ben — it is great to hear that you enjoy the new design. Cheers! :)

By: Ben C

Ben C — Mon, 19 Jan 2009 17:07:04 +0000

I love the new theme, though I have always liked very simple and uncluttered designs. It may inspire me to redo my own sites CSS.

By: Jeff Starr

Jeff Starr — Thu, 08 Jan 2009 02:14:31 +0000

@zubfatal: Yes indeed, the Quintessential theme is image-intensive and makes use of transparent PNGs and backgrounds, rounded corners, and much more. Unfortunately, displaying such graphical complexity requires a significant amount of processing power, something which is not always available on all machines. No reason to panic, however, as I currently offer 22 alternate themes from which to choose. Personally, I am quite fond of the "Perishable" theme and also the "minimalist" theme, both of which are easy on the imagery and work well even on the slowest of machines (such as my trusty, 7-year-old Sony Vaio laptop!). I hope this helps; please let me know if I may be of any further assisitance :)

By: zubfatal

zubfatal — Tue, 06 Jan 2009 01:05:16 +0000

The Quintessential theme looks great to me, however when scrolling up or down on the page, it makes my laptop work harder than it should do – it seems to “resume normal speed” once i’ve scrolled past the right column, or even faster still, when disabling background images using the web developer extension in firefox, this however leaves the site rather naked :)