Portfolio: Grunge Style Web Design & Blog design for WordPress-Designers.com
We’ve been working closely with www.wordpress-designers.com to build up some new and exciting themes for them which will be ready for release in the near future. We soon realised that we needed a more convenient way of displaying the themes and their features, so it was decided that we create a new style for the website, which included us making and designing the homepage and store pages, as well as a blog section.
Goals for the design
Our main goal was to have an open clean design that could easily display the various features and functions of the WordPress Themes. As always the design had to be as easy to navigate as possible, and we wanted their to be a focus on the featured theme.
The Details
The Icons
We used icons where we felt it was needed, we used some icons from the beautiful Crystal Project Icon set, which has some of the best icons I’ve ever seen, & the fact they are free is amazing.
The Grunge touch
As you can probably see there are hints of grunge in the design, with the use of watercolour brushes and some other grunge brushes which we applied lightly onto the design. We will be sharing some of our favourite Grunge brushes etc in a post we will be publishing when we fully launch the blog next week, so you can get some similar brushes there.
The Fonts
We’ve used quite large fonts in a lot of places also. The big font style is something which is quite popular in 2008. It is easy to see why, the large font size is a great way to show off a great typeface you have. We felt the roundness of the font helped add some real class and style to the design, so overall a nice blend between corporate & the slightly grungey look.
Use of Colours
The colours work really well in my opinion, I think there is a nice contrast between dark and light which helps draw your eye down to the main content once you’ve had a read of the featured theme. There’s a woody & papery feel to it I think which helps build some faint texture. Overall we were happy with the design and hope that it can help add to the success of WordPress-Designers which will soon feature some of our own themes for sale. (More Updates on this soon)
Hire us for your Next Project
If you liked what you’ve seen above, you can take a look at some other entries in our portfolio. Or you can get in touch now and talk over your ideas for your next project. We’re at an exciting time in our company and are hoping to take on some fresh new clients. We’re currently offering some special prices during our launch period, so now is a great time to get in touch, contact liam@wefunction.com for a chat.
Written by liam on June 28, 2008
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Looks great as always, Liam! I’ll have to start using that icon set.
@ David, yeah that set is really useful, especially the Larger Icons they’re so well polished.
@Fath & Adelle, Thank you both, glad you liked the hints of grunge in there!
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Glad everyone thinks the design is as awesome as I do!
Hey Liam,
I’m in the midst of purchasing a premium WordPress theme from Magnus Jepson. But I’m sort of like your design, I’m not too sure if I should ask you to quote me something similar like your design.
What do you say?
Yan
@ Blog for Beginners, To be completely honest if you feel you’re capable of modifying and changing the design yourself the there is nothing wrong with WordPress Themes. And it can work out cheaper. You may want to wait for us as we have a few Premium WordPress themes on the way soon you can see previews of these here:
http://flickr.com/photos/liamuk7/2536690735/
http://flickr.com/photos/liamuk7/2516022406/
http://flickr.com/photos/liamuk7/2631476298/
http://flickr.com/photos/liamuk7/2630656827/
If you feel you’d like a completely custom and unique design that will set your blog apart from everyone else then I’d definitely recommend letting us work on a design for you. If you wish to send me the details via the contact page or just email liam@wefunction.com I’ll be able to give you an estimate.
I agree with you but I’d rather buy a premium theme and do a little bit modification.
Yes I love the Sketch’d theme as I have said, if you remember, I’m partial to anything with the Grunge touch.
Email me the details, will you?
Yan
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You have some great themes there. I don’t know how you guys do it. I hate implementing custom design in wordpress. Great system far too complicated theming.
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I agree with you but I’d rather buy a premium theme and do a little bit modification.
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Email me the details, will you?
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