Before I was introduced to Wikidot, I was quite ignorant when it came to how the Internet worked. I knew that HTML played a huge part in it, but other than that, I had little to no knowledge on how websites were made or caused to look how they looked. After I met Wikidot, my eyes became opened, and I slowly discovered the realm of Cascading Style Sheets (CSS), a programming language in of itself. CSS is what gives web pages their feel and looks; HTML simply puts things where they ought to be. After playing around a couple of years with the language, I've since developed some website themes which you might like using for your own site.
These themes below only work for Wikidot, or any page with similar page structure. Also, the list doesn't include all the themes I've made; it only has ones I've officially released for public use. Alongside the below, I've also made the theme for this blog (my personal favorite), the theme at Life's Handbook, and the theme at The Latin Dictionary.
Articles n' More
Articles n' More is a general informational type theme meant mainly for displaying text for articles or more. This was the first theme that I remember ever building, which was for a website that is now practically abandoned and dead. To make the theme ready for a theme contest being held by Wikidot, I had tweaked it a little into what is shown here, and it ended up winning (hence, I have the privilege of saying this theme is Award-Winning).
The theme allows for the use of a custom logo in the top left corner, and it is rather easy to customize, be it that it only uses one image (the logo) and only a few different colors. Articles n' More is probably my most clean and browser-compatible theme.
Folder
Folder is a theme that I originally made for my school which wound up not being used in light of a different vendor for websites. In my personal opinion, the theme isn't the most professional thing in the world, and while the colors are nice, the pencil image and sticky note image are low quality. However, it is a nifty little theme with a definite educational feel, and it surprised me how many sites I found using Folder.
A Corner Game
A Corner Game features a graphic top-left corner meant to add edge to a website. I experimented more with image gradients, as you may see, and it turned out quite well. While this doesn't support a top navigation bar, the theme presents content very neatly and has the side bar on the right side as opposed to the left. I don't remember why I developed this theme other than I simply wanted to. In a way, the corner seems to add a futuristic feel.
The Developer Series
My most expansive theme, The Developer Series is actually a set of themes made for clean simplicity, working as a general all-around web design. After acquiring all my knowledge about cross-compatibility, how CSS works, and how to incorporate images, I combined everything into one to make a nice series meant to work for educational sites, corporations, and even personal blogs.
Since the theme incorporates a lot of images, it is not very easy to customize. So, I made many color variations based on rare earth minerals and stones so that a user may simply select which color he/she likes best. These colors are below:
- Amethyst Developer — Go to
- Diamond Developer — Go to
- Emerald Developer — Go to
- Garnet Developer — Go to
- Malachite Developer — Go to
- Obsidian Developer — Go to
- Onyx Developer — Go to
- Peridot Developer — Go to
- Quartz Developer — Go to
- Ruby Developer — Go to
- Sapphire Developer — Go to
- Tanzanite Developer — Go to
- Topaz Developer — Go to
The WebBrand Series
Ever since the advent of CSS3, I've been working to adapt my web design abilities to include all of the new properties into my mental library. CSS3 is considerably more powerful than what I've been using up to the above set of themes and allows for round corners, animations, shadow effects, and more. The WebBrand Series showcases what I have learned and practiced over the past year, manifesting itself into an elegant, soft theme meant for blogs, corporations, and educational sites. Furthermore, I worked hard to ensure that the themes were compatible in most older browsers so that more people can view them with ease.
Like in the Developer Series above, I made colored variations for this theme so that potential users have options as to which color suits their fancy. Feel free to look at any of these. Who knows? Maybe they'll inspire you to start up a site of your own!
- WebBrand — Install
- MagmaBrand — Install
- FireBrand — Install
- ThunderBrand — Install
- WindBrand — Install
- IceBrand — Install
- WaterBrand — Install
- AetherBrand — Install
- EarthBrand — Install
- MetalBrand — Install
- DarkBrand — Install
- LightBrand — Install
Fix the IE bug.
