Update! I’m finally done, Whew!
Here is Color-Cart Green ( I know, I couldn’t think of a good name.All my brain cells went toward making the thing).
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Also, there is Color-Cart Black but it costs 10 whole dollars! Please take the test drive and hopefully you will like it enough to buy it. If this new venture goes well I plan to release more free themes. In fact I think I will release one free theme for every paid one. That’s a tentative promise!
Hi Everybody. For the last few days I have been working on a new theme for WordPress specifically a theme centered around using the WP ECommerce plugin. Right now there is only one other free Premium quality WP theme I know of that is centered around the shopping cart plugin .
I’m not competing with King Cart’s design, which is super cute especially that smiling apple in the little banner. Perhaps the trend of the mega banner has run its course? It makes sense to reduce the size of the banner:it frees up valuable real estate on the site above the fold. The navigation menu is positioned extremely well so that the hover dropdown lists don’t fall down over the page content- a tendency of crowded web sites and kind of why I don’t like to use them. The graphics are first class and my overall impression of the layout is one of clear, clean, well thought out presentation. In short, it is awesome. And free! I want to join in one the effort to create and release for free, well crafted WordPress themes meant to be used along with the WordPress E Commerce plugin.
The project has stalled somewhat because I was flooded with work. I’m not complaining. But I hope to get it packaged and set for free download very soon. The drawbacks of releasing a one size fits all WordPress theme are the inevitable support requests and how to field them all without draining my most valuable resource: my time. Also one wants to take care not to overly design the theme to make it simpler for people to customize it. It is very hard to create a simple theme! It is even harder to design for 2 sexes. I may just end up releasing 2 versions:one theme that is a bit more feminine and a masculine leaning theme. You know: blue is for boys and pink is for girls. Though I don’t think I will be that literal about the color choices.
So stay tuned, people. It’s coming soon.
