Living Open Source

Thanks to Rena, who brought my attention to a problem with these two themes in Internet Explorer 6. The themes were prone to the famous text creep bug in IE6 when you have nested tags that have both a left border and bottom margin. I think Rena, after a late night or two found the [...]

Lots of sites have header images that rotate and link to content on or off site, like at the City Church. That site uses flash, but I came across an excellent AJAX slideshow script called SmoothGallery by Jonathan Schemoul. I couldn’t find anybody who had integrated it into WordPress, so here is a new theme [...]

I thought it was time I dusted off a WordPress theme that had been sat on the unfinished projects pile. I had a church application in mind with this theme, but it will probably find uses elsewhere too. I’ve tried to produce something a little fresher and used one of my own images as the [...]

Its been a while since I managed another theme. This one is designed with churches in mind and is the result of having helped a couple of churches online with WordPress. WordPress really is much more than a blogging tool. This theme is the next step along the WP-driven church evolution. I may even finally [...]

I wasn’t entirely happy with the BETA theme so, here is another attempt at a WordPress theme that is more readable. I hope you won’t be too dissapointed, but I won’t be releasing this one just yet. The problem with releasing your designs for free is that they get everywhere. Which means your own site [...]

No fuss, no sidebar – just a simple one-column theme. Probably best suited to a personal blog or news site. You can Download this and other themes from my projects page.

Just finished PSI, another WordPress theme designed with churches in mind. Well, it may interest others too, who are after a more CMS type theme. Smaller churches don’t have enough going on to post continually, so the emphasis with this theme is more towards static pages. Even so all the latest posts still appear down [...]