Details
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Bug
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Status: Closed
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Resolution: Fixed
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Description
Good Afternoon,
This morning Brian Chan asked me to go through the existing 5.2x themes and create a list of themes I didn't think should be included for the 6.0 release. The idea is to clean up the selection of themes in order to end up with fewer, well-designed, usable, and practical themes. Brian also said that it might be a good idea to do a bunch of fresh themes to release with version 6. So today, Jon Neal and I came up with some basic requirements to judge the themes by, in order to make deleting themes an easy and consistent process.
These are the Requirements:
1. website width should fit within 1024px
2. banner should fit within 160px of height
3. navigation should fit at least 8 navigation items
4. visual design should not distract from content
5. industry specific design elements should still be relevant and appealing in 2010
The Keepers (Most of which still need some amount of redesign)
1. Gulona - good colors, decent nav, salvagable
2. Beautiful Day - good colors, good nav
3. Bitter Sweet - Decent color scheme, good nav, usable
4. Bright Pixel - Nice portliest, simple nav, good color scheme
5. Brochure - good header, decent nav (needs work), decent portliest
6. Brownie - nice nav, good size header, rework colors
7. Chit Chat - Simple, good colors, needs some life, but salvageable
8. Cimus - good colors, good nav, good header
9. Cleap - clean, simple, good color, usable
10. Coffee N Cream - This is just overall nicely done.
11. Dirtylicious - simple, good colors, good nav, clean
12. Envision- decent layout and nav, salvagable
13. Kort - good colors, nav and header
14. Murali - very unique, still general, portliest need work, still usable
15. Organica - good nav, decent colors, fonts, usable, simple header
16. Speedy - aaron wants to keep it and its fast
17. Transparenthia - Clean, simple, good colors, left nav is nice
18. Zen-Like: cool blog style theme, decent colors, needs some work
19. Wordpress - simple, clean, good colors, not sure about right nav
see a pattern here?
To Be Deleted (using above requirements, or they did not meet asthetic standards):
1. Blue Pigment
2. Casino
3. City Blues*
4. Colorus
5. Crystal X
6. Dejem
7. Ecogreen
8. Facebook
9. Foliage
10. Geekray 3D
11. Giclee
12. Glassica
13. Glowstick
14. Highlighter
15. Highway
16. Indigo
17. My Office
18. Natural Essence
19. Night Out
20. Panelo
21. Portfolio
22. Prime Time
23. Pure
24. Rock Blog
25. Salome Art
26. Section 508
27. Social Office
28. Spirit of Nature
29. Spurt*
30. Street Style
31. Summer Breeze
32. SupaStar
33. Super Mario 1 + 2 (these are fun but not practical or functional at all and break above rules, thats why i put them on this list)
34. Techie
35. Tuxedo
36. University
37. WebSynergy
38. Webcorp
39. iGoogle
Moving forward, Jon is going to be deleting themes from the repository and Aaron, myself, Brad, and Yoshi are going to be working on fresh themes for 6.0. I have already begun working on a few themes that have Aaron's approval thus far.
Thanks Everyone,
Matt
