Genericons is a 100% GPL icon font by Automattic. It's in use with twenty thirteen, and I'm excited about it. It looks like a great option for most themes that need fairly few, simple icons. I'll be bundling this with…
Sidebar navigation is back
Brian Krogsgard
DesignWordPress News
As WP Lift proves with this list of themes, sidebar navigation is back. Some of these are beautiful, but it makes me kind of sad to see there are a few leaders taking risks with their themes, but many, many followers.
Quartz makes the argument that every page is the home page, because more and more sites are accessed first from within. I'm pretty sure I disagree. I get the point that interior pages need to be better focused for users first…
First look at the twentythirteen default theme
Brian Krogsgard
DesignWordPress News
A first look at the twentythirteen theme has been posted on the Make WordPress Core blog. The theme's goal is to get back to blogging and to highlight post formats, a feature that will get some love in 3.6. The…
WPLift got a big facelift
Brian Krogsgard
DesignWordPress News
WPLift is a popular blog about WordPress. Oli Dale launched their second design iteration this morning. It's a whole new scheme, and they've included new plugin and theme repositories that will be interesting to see how they're used. It's very…
Avoid the pains of pagination
Brian Krogsgard
Design
UX Movement explores various painpoints of pagination. A good reminder for those of us creating pagination in WordPress themes and client sites. Are we giving it enough thought?
Five questions with theme developer Mike McAlister
Brian Krogsgard
DesignWordPress News
Erik Ford has a nice Q&A with Mike McAlister on his blog. Both Erik and Mike are valuable members of the commercial theme community. This is a great opportunity to hear how Mike got into making WordPress themes, and how…
You know you want a WordPress theme for your IRC client
Brian Krogsgard
Design
And Ryan Duff is here to oblige your every whim. He presents to us a WordPress themed Colloquy theme.
The WordPress design and development process
Brian Krogsgard
Design
Tammy Hart, a designer and developer with 10up, shares her process with us. Everyone's varies a little bit. How does it stack up to yours?
SlabText – a jQuery plugin for equalizing line measure in headlines
Brian Krogsgard
Design
This is a slick jQuery script to make big, fancy, responsive headlines where each line has equal line measure. So it makes it like those posters we all love where the font size varies per line to make the measure…
I thought I knew about responsive design
Brian Krogsgard
Design
I thought I knew a lot about responsive design, but I learned a ton in this post by Paul Stamatiou. He recently redesigned his blog, and he goes into great length into how he did it, and what he learned.…
It’s the information, stupid
Brian Krogsgard
Design
That's why people go to websites. My colleague, David Hickox, hits the nail on the head. Sliders are the latest craze, but, "they’re just the latest in a long line of misguided client fixations aimed at producing excitement and engagement…
Nevermind
Brian Krogsgard
Design
"Nevermind". A human, friendly example of nice messaging in a web interface. I love stuff like this. Also, I started reading this blog tonight because Tina Roth Eisenberg, the site's owner, did an interview with Jeffrey Zeldman on the Big Web…
Test your kerning skills with the Kern Type game
Brian Krogsgard
Design
This is just for fun. My coworker introduced it to me yesterday. A great practice for anyone that toys with the frontend, and a good opportunity to showoff for experienced typography nerds. Move the letters left and right to properly…
Underscores meets Sass with sassy_s
Brian Krogsgard
DesignWordPress News
Amy Hendrix has released a nice integration of Sass for the Underscores theme by Automattic. Underscores, or _s, has gotten a lot of traction as an easy to fork base theme, and it's maintained by some truly great theme wranglers…
