Wordpress themes
I'm looking for a suitable wordpress theme for Transition Bristol and Montpelier - does anyone have any suggestions? Ideally, it would include drop down navigation (to represent news in different categories)...
Hi Ed,
I'm a web geek, and been using Wordpress for a few community projects in recent years.
How about "Titan" theme, used for Transition Stourbridge. I changed to this theme a few months ago, and found it quite nice (you can set the top navigation, to use Pages or Category's)
Also, I know wordpress.com have been busy bringing out new themes lately, which take advantage of new features. So choosing a 'recently added' theme is best.
And...a 'Custom Menus' feature has just come online, which gives you lots of flexibility over your navigation.
Jon
good reply - ta - I'd bookmarked titan as it looked clean and calm, with dropdown options (going to use them for specific news categories by theme) - and good point about the custom menus
:)
Using Arras - further to much discussion and tinkering we're using the Arras Theme as seen here on our site in Montepelier... very handy...
Hi Ed & Jon
I am currently helping a local TT group get off the ground here in Clevedon and before I encourage them to think about what they want their site to look like I'm asking them to focus on what they want the site to do. They are an intelligent group of people but overall their ICT experience is a bit thin and as a newly formed group they are unsure just how they use or even rely on a website. So my question to you guys is has anyone tried to put together a (in)formal list of functionality that a TT movement might want straight out of the gate? Or to put it another way does the uber-masters of the TT network have any expectations regarding such things? I know this is loose & flexible network movement but it seems to me that with so many local site popping up and hopefully many more to come this might save a few folks from reinventing the wheel?
re- "transition site in a box"
Hi Michael (and Ed and Jon),
Sorry to continue this off-thread topic, but seems important:
So my question to you guys is has anyone tried to put together a (in)formal list of functionality that a TT movement might want straight out of the gate?
It seems like a lot of us are thinking on the same page at the same time. I started asking this question about the same time as several other folks, and it seems that there's a coalition forming around the need for a "transition website in a box", as Ed here likes to put it. So, I've been using Wordpress, and we're moving to Drupal now because that's where the group direction seems to be. You can find out more about this at the Drupal Transition Towns forums, (http://groups.drupal.org/transition-towns) where there's a lively discussion, and a very focused "strategy team" who's working hard to put just such a thing together. The project team is centering at http://transitiondrupal.org/. I think if they do it as successfully as it looks promising to be, we're all going to reap great benefit from this work.
good point, anonymous, and I'm a big fan of the transition drupal project (yet to have a clear name) as much as possible. It's looking great as you say. I think that it is likely we'll see a range of paths for initiatives to take, from their own sites using whatever they want, the community microsites on this platform, drupal configs on 'transition drupal', Ning sites and more...
Bugger. We were tossing up betweeen Joomla and Drupal, and we went for Joomla. What made the transition group choose Drupal over Joomla, out of interest? Seems to have worked well - it's a nice site.
'Transition Drupal' chose drupal as they are a bunch of people using drupal who want to put an open source project together in their preferred language - it began when Andre appeared out of drupalconSF and thought 'hmm, this could be useful to TIs'. They would never have used anything else, being from a drupal bunch.
The Web Project (that is this site) chose drupal as it's flexible, extendable, has a good range of reasonable developers, is easier to learn and manage than Plone, requires less cusomisation (so we're not dependent on one developer with a massive beard and incomprehensible code), and has the rights, roles, permissions etc. we'd need going forward. Also the other national hubs (NZ, US and more) were using drupal. Joomla was discussed in the consultation phase (2009) but not chosen.
For my local initiative in Montpelier Bristol, we use Wordpress as it's really easy to use, simple to configure, has loads of cool themes, big buttons, easy to train people on, and is free.
So I guess it's horses for courses, really - I'd say that the choice of software mostly depends on your local access to developer skills and platform preference...
Headway is an excellent theme. Look around the web for a coupon code. I got mine for $60. It is a no brainer...and VERY flexible. Good luck.
I got the Headway for 20 USD.Many sites promote free templates wordpress but as we say if you want something good you have to pay for it.
Free templates have enormous feature to customize our site,In terms make it professional it has to be resynchronized very well.