Textpattern Support Forum

Gaia is a Textpattern template with a clear focus on content and simplicity beside beauty and elegance. It is carefully crafted, thoroughly tested and provides wide customization capabilities.

Demo: http://www.textplates.com/browser/22/
Download: http://www.textplates.com/file_download/77

A quick overview of features

From the users perspective:

• Flexible design that looks beautiful on any resolution (and with any font size)
• Rich formatting of content, designed on a subtle grid
• Content-focused, no redundant functionality (less is more)
• Thoroughly tested and works great in myriads of browsers (handheld devices included)
  • Tested in FF 2, Safari 2/3b, IE 5/5.5/6/7, Opera 9 and even Opera Mini 4b

From the developers perspective:

• Carefully crafted code architecture
  • All pages have valid XHTML 1.0 Strict and CSS code
  • Unobtrusive JS for minor decorations (degrades gracefully)
• Provides great deal of customization out of the box
  • Separation of type/layout and colors/decorations in CSS
  • Vector graphics provided in the distribution
  • Try this while viewing the demo: disable the ‘autumn.css’ stylesheet on the page (with Firebug, Web Developer or something similar). Enjoy.
• Microformats everywhere:
  • hAtom feeds for article list and comments
  • utilizes abbr datetime pattern
  • hCard for article/comment authors
  • rel-bookmark, rel-tag (thanks TXP)

Plugins used: an7_comments (John Einselen), cbs_navigation_menu (Christophe Beyls) and jnm_categories (Juanjo Navarro).

Last edited by mourner (2007-07-13 07:00:52)