Celebrate Autumn. Revel in harvest. Decorate with pumpkins. Dress up your blog for Halloween.
This fall blogger template is just the right balance of cute and all grown up, conjuring crisp weather, rich autumn colors and the smell of pumpkin pie. It would be a perfect choice for Halloween if spooky isn’t your thing, or you’d like something to enjoy for the whole fall season.
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Adventure Tykes was one of the biggest projects we’ve worked on in a while and crossed over into many applications. We started out with a Magento online store. We supplemented that with a community powered by phpBB with a Coppermine photo gallery bridge, and a Resources section with articles and a blog powered by WordPress. The goal was to give a seamless look and make the experience as easy for the user as possible.
The site and community were built to offer a resource and store for outdoor enthusiasts who don’t want to become shut-ins just because they had a kid. It was a lot of fun to work on and they were a great pair to work with. It was particularly interesting for us to work on this project because, being parents who like to camp and hike, we were also part of the target audience for the site.
Erin composed a welcoming design that used the earthy color palette from their logo suitable for a website for kids’ stuff and outdoor-types. I became a code monkey for a couple of months, immersing myself in the various platforms and making sure the transition from one to the next was as natural as possible. We are confident that when it launches officially, Adventure Tykes will not only be a great place to find outdoor equipment for you and your little ones, but also an engaging and active community and resource for ideas to go on adventures with them, too.
The kidsblog is a site we did a long time ago and recently realized that it wasn’t in our portfolio. kidsblog is mostly a photo and updates blog for our two kids. As such, the only clients we had to really please were ourselves, our families, and the kids themselves. Having previously used a pretty basic, out-of-the-box, Kubrick-based theme for the previous platform we were using, sblog. When we decided to change the platform, we wanted to redesign the site to show off our personality a bit more, and the personality of the kids starring in the blog.
The biggest success story about the kidsblog theme is that when we finished and showed it to Gavin, our oldest, he was excited by the design and fascinated by the colors and shapes, the hands and the sun. For us, that meant: mission accomplished!
We really tried to create a design that was fun to look at, brightly colored, but also not distracting from the content. We designed it for large resolutions in mind, but made it compatible for 1024 x 768 resolution for relatives with older computers (and provided a helpful walkthrough for changing your resolution for visitors who may come and not know what a 1024 x 768 resolution is).
Since its’ launch, we’ve updated various things to add functionality or keep the design fresh, most recently by adding IntenseDebate for commenting, and updating the design to be more of a widescreen theme. Even though we don’t show it off as much anymore, this is still one of our favorite WordPress themes, with a unique blend of grunge and flair creating a feeling of something that is really dirty but also really fun — just like our kids!
WordPress plugins used: IntenseDebate, PagerFix, Shutter Reloaded, FeedBurner
Do not hire a man who does your work for money, but him who does it for love of it.
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