So what is amalga•muse? It is my first attempt to create a magazine-style Wordpress template. Ryan of Theme Playground notes in a review of magazine-style themes that such themes are a necessary response to the changes in the way blogs are utilized: “Now that blogs are being used by groups of people (be it businesses, organizations, even schools) just as much as they are individuals, WordPress theme designers have felt that need and have created a number of quality magazine–style themes in response.”
I think this trend towards magazine-style sites is part of the evolution of self-publishing. People are no longer setting up blogs to post online journal entries. More and more bloggers are really generating the equivalent of a magazine, creating entries on a variety of topics. Thus, the homepage should do more than list the most recent posts in descending order. It should “feature” recent content by arranging it into categories and by displaying excerpts of articles and thumbnails of images in order to draw the reader deeper into the blog.
As I state on its masthead, amalga•muse is a WORDPRESS THEME blending an amalgam of features from several design muses | i.e. Subtraction + Grid Focus + The Morning After. The amalga•muse web site is merely a test site at this point — a prototype. Eventually, I will fine tune it, write up documentation for it, and distribute it as a public Wordpress theme. The key will be documenting how to alter the code to work with the categories on one’s particular blog.
In the meantime, I plan to use this template as a base for creating custom Wordpress sites for clients. This theme’s code really unlocks Wordpress as a Content Management System, so it is useful when developing a web site that is not blog-like in presentation, yet the client desires the ease of maintenance and self-publishing that blog engines like Wordpress facilitate.
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thank good theme im site template to
May 7th, 2008
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