http://spectacu.la/forum/ A great WordPress community en Wed, 08 Feb 2012 19:32:43 +0000 http://spectacu.la/forum/topic/interesting-grassland-variations#post-49 Mon, 08 Dec 2008 18:54:13 +0000 clopinettes 49@http://spectacu.la/forum/ <p>Just been looking around and found some interesting customisations of the Grassland theme:</p> <p><a href="http://www.umlv.net/blog2/" rel="nofollow">http://www.umlv.net/blog2/</a> - totally unexpected look with oranges and blue<br /> <a href="http://lyon-sauvage.com/" rel="nofollow">http://lyon-sauvage.com/</a> - not really a massive development, but hey :o)<br /> <a href="http://www.unautrejour.fr/blog/" rel="nofollow">http://www.unautrejour.fr/blog/</a> - I believe this is in Mali, where these are popular colours - doesn't work well with Western eyes, but that's not the point<br /> <a href="http://les5roues2lamain.gazaniol.fr/" rel="nofollow">http://les5roues2lamain.gazaniol.fr/</a> - very interesting treatment of the header</p> <p>One thing you'll notice is that they're all French language sites. Similarly, Anvil was most popular in Russia. It shows how key nodes influence a theme's popularity... </p> http://spectacu.la/forum/topic/daves-personal-site#post-48 Tue, 02 Dec 2008 09:23:53 +0000 clopinettes 48@http://spectacu.la/forum/ <p>My own personal site at <a href="http://www.davesgonemental.com" rel="nofollow">http://www.davesgonemental.com</a> uses Caribou as its theme as of a week or so ago.</p> <p>I use the geo-mashup plugin for the mapping, and Akismet but otherwise am pretty light on plugins as I find they can slow down a site far too much.</p> <p>I didn't customise the theme at all, and decided that for my relatively simple needs the straightforward combination of red, black and grey were all I needed for colours when selecting them in the back-end. Turning off the menu bar seemed sensible because although I have quite a lot of content it could be quite easily categorised into just a few sections which fitted nicely along the tab bar. I used the footer for a subtle link to an About page.</p> <p>Of course, I'm a complete theme tart - so there's no guarantee that if you read this in 2009 I'll be on the same theme! Caribou is going to spawn a lot of children in the coming year or two... Similarly, our new blogging theme due out this week is a delight, especially with its support for WP2.7 and threaded comments. </p>