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Brainstorming: More Themes for Serendipity
Posted: Mon Aug 15, 2011 9:14 pm
by laemmy
What can we do to get more available Themes (free premium) for Serendipity. Please post your ideas in this thread.
Maybe a theme contest can bring some new themes to the community?
Re: Brainstorming: More Themes for Serendipity
Posted: Mon Aug 15, 2011 11:30 pm
by yellowled
laemmy wrote:What can we do to get more available Themes (free premium) for Serendipity.
First of all, let's please not adapt bullshit buzzwords from the WP world like "free premium". A theme is either free or commercial, at least that's my point of view.
There's exactly one solution to get more available themes – get more people to
do themes, preferably for free. The most "productive" phase of s9y theme development was when more people had the time and energy to produce themes – back in the day when Carl and David were still rather active.
Anyone can become a skilled s9y theme developer. It's not rocket science. I'm happy to give pointers or answer questions here, but basically, all you need is out there – HTML, CSS, maybe JS and some Smarty, very possibly some PHP. You don't even need to be a designer, you can port free HTML themes or WP themes (although I'd recommend starting with adapting existing s9y themes).
If there's another (realistic) way to get more themes for s9y, I don't see it.
YL
Re: Brainstorming: More Themes for Serendipity
Posted: Tue Aug 16, 2011 9:18 am
by laemmy
Sorry, the slash was missing. I mean free and premium (or like you said commercial) themes.
yellowled wrote:There's exactly one solution to get more available themes – get more people to do themes, preferably for free. The most "productive" phase of s9y theme development was when more people had the time and energy to produce themes – back in the day when Carl and David were still rather active..
Right. But how can we reach that goal? What can we do today?
Re: Brainstorming: More Themes for Serendipity
Posted: Tue Aug 16, 2011 9:33 am
by yellowled
laemmy wrote:But how can we reach that goal? What can we do today?
With regards to what purpose? Get more themes? Just start creating some.
YL