FastSite Move

Wordpress has a lot of great options and features. Instead of pretending that they don’t exist, we try to take advantage of all of them. Things like: widgets, sidebars, categories (with descriptions!), authors (we’re multi-authors ourselves), tags, page templates (including archives and links – and even a few more), a simple options panel and some common templates.

There are even more little options to customize the theme. PressBox comes with at least four – Simple, Constrasty, Dark, and Professional. They all have a little personality and represent a great starting point for customization.

Wordpress has a lot of great options and features. Instead of pretending that they don’t exist, we try to take advantage of all of them. Things like: widgets, sidebars, categories (with descriptions!), authors (we’re multi-authors ourselves), tags, page templates (including archives and links – and even a few more), a simple options panel and some common templates.

Our goal here is not to create some fancy hand tooled look. For two reasons. One is that those designs become dated fast, the other is that it isn’t as easy to edit someone’s photoshop files. PressBox is strikingly simple, it includes few design elements, imagery or the like. Still, it somehow possesses a unique presence and pinash all its own. From its unique header – which actually looks nice, even without a header image – to its double sidebar – there is an amazing amount going on, even when it looks like there isn’t.

We consider this a ‘premium theme’, but it isn’t a magazine. It looks like a blog and (if it could) would walk and talk like one too. It does look a little different then a normal blog, and has a few more options, but it doesn’t forget about its past growing up in the blogosphere.

Microformats are coming, and we love to play around with what works. There is out of the box support for author microformat (great for multiple author blogs) and we’d like to work more in as they come along. We try to do intelligent semantic things, however we do make things pretty generic. We refer to entries as ‘things’ – not posts. We have sections like ‘thing-meta’. These are semantically meaningful only in a very generic way. We hope you extend them to be more specifically semantic where appropriate.