Title: Simplastic theme
Last modified: August 20, 2016

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# Simplastic theme

 *  [Keep2theCode](https://wordpress.org/support/users/2thepoint/)
 * (@2thepoint)
 * [13 years, 10 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/simplastic-theme/)
 * Hi, I would like opinions on this theme I made. I know I’m breaking the rule 
   about favicon and site logo, but other than that it seems to work pretty well
   on most browsers. The main idea was to put the typical header info (site title
   and description) as the first item in the sidebar rather than a header across
   the top. It also will adapt to a variety of browser window sizes.
 * [theme url](http://keep2thecode.fether.net)
 * This is running the default “navy” option; there are two others you can choose
   from if you download the theme and try them in your installation.

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 *  [PremiumWP](https://wordpress.org/support/users/premiumwp/)
 * (@premiumwp)
 * [13 years, 10 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/simplastic-theme/#post-2875466)
 * Good effort, but to be honest the design is rather dated. There are problems 
   with adaptive / responsive design of the theme as it doesn’t work properly on
   small windows sizes.
 *  Thread Starter [Keep2theCode](https://wordpress.org/support/users/2thepoint/)
 * (@2thepoint)
 * [13 years, 10 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/simplastic-theme/#post-2875467)
 * Thanks, premiumwp. But can you be more specific?
 * — What makes it ‘dated’? I indeed didn’t want it to look like every other theme
   out there, but neither did I use heavy graphical backgrounds for example.
    — 
   What size breaks it? I shrunk the window down pretty far and also tried it on
   a low-rez monitor running an old version of Windows, and it still held together.
 *  [PremiumWP](https://wordpress.org/support/users/premiumwp/)
 * (@premiumwp)
 * [13 years, 10 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/simplastic-theme/#post-2875500)
 * I guess good design is a subjective, personal thing. The textured background,
   thin widget headers, unstyled typography and rounded corners make it feel a bit
   dated for me. But that’s just my opinion.
 * Yes it scales down to about 800px but no smaller than that. So it doesn’t adapt
   to display properly on smartphones etc which is what’s needed in a true responsive
   layout.
 * All the best
 *  Thread Starter [Keep2theCode](https://wordpress.org/support/users/2thepoint/)
 * (@2thepoint)
 * [13 years, 10 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/simplastic-theme/#post-2875501)
 * Thanks again. Per smartphones, I don’t think there are many designs that shrink
   that far; they almost always use a separate theme. The wpTouch plugin is free
   and does a great job for that, but of course I’m not running any plugins to demo
   the site.
 * Not sure what “styled” type would be; I chose to use ordinary, generic fonts 
   as part of the simplicity, but if it doesn’t violate any WP rules I could try
   the Google fonts I suppose. I don’t think twentyeleven or a lot of the popular
   themes use them, but I’d have to check on that. Anyway, thanks for the feedback.
 *  Thread Starter [Keep2theCode](https://wordpress.org/support/users/2thepoint/)
 * (@2thepoint)
 * [13 years, 10 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/simplastic-theme/#post-2875502)
 * PS: Found a good article that has some especially helpful advice under the picture
   of the dandelion:
    [http://wp.smashingmagazine.com/smashing-special-wordpress-theme-trends-for-2012-design/](http://wp.smashingmagazine.com/smashing-special-wordpress-theme-trends-for-2012-design/)
 * For non-WP sites I have in fact made them so they present a completely different
   theme for mobile devices, without resorting to a subdomain such as mobile.mysite.
   com. The challenge would be to make that happen in WP.
 * Challenge accepted. ;-D
 *  [PremiumWP](https://wordpress.org/support/users/premiumwp/)
 * (@premiumwp)
 * [13 years, 10 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/simplastic-theme/#post-2875503)
 * There are lots of mobile responsive WordPress themes around already and most 
   will go that way in the future. See how the default Twenty Eleven theme works
   for example, and all the responsive themes here [http://www.premiumwp.com/best-responsive-wordpress-themes/](http://www.premiumwp.com/best-responsive-wordpress-themes/)
 *  [PremiumWP](https://wordpress.org/support/users/premiumwp/)
 * (@premiumwp)
 * [13 years, 10 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/simplastic-theme/#post-2875504)
 * As explained in that article “we’ll see responsive themes becoming the norm, 
   rather than a novelty”
    Responsive design is the future of web design, especially
   considering its now Googles recommended configuration for building smartphone
   optimised websites. [http://googlewebmastercentral.blogspot.com.au/2012/06/recommendations-for-building-smartphone.html](http://googlewebmastercentral.blogspot.com.au/2012/06/recommendations-for-building-smartphone.html)
 *  Thread Starter [Keep2theCode](https://wordpress.org/support/users/2thepoint/)
 * (@2thepoint)
 * [13 years, 10 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/simplastic-theme/#post-2875505)
 * Thanks for those, I’ll check them out.
 *  Thread Starter [Keep2theCode](https://wordpress.org/support/users/2thepoint/)
 * (@2thepoint)
 * [13 years, 10 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/simplastic-theme/#post-2875521)
 * Alrighty, premiumwp… I’ve revamped it to be ultra-flexible, which necessitated
   moving a few things around, and I dispensed with the alternate color options 
   for now. Even got some Google fonts. Is this a step in the right direction, do
   you think?
 *  [esmi](https://wordpress.org/support/users/esmi/)
 * (@esmi)
 * [13 years, 10 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/simplastic-theme/#post-2875525)
 * Theme license?
 *  Thread Starter [Keep2theCode](https://wordpress.org/support/users/2thepoint/)
 * (@2thepoint)
 * [13 years, 10 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/simplastic-theme/#post-2875541)
 * Standard GPL, esmi.
 * Also, I just added separate styling for mobile devices.
 *  [KajMagnus](https://wordpress.org/support/users/kajmagnus/)
 * (@kajmagnus)
 * [13 years, 10 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/simplastic-theme/#post-2875596)
 * Hi 2thePoint
 * On my 30” monitor, the theme actually seems a bit compact.
 * When I made the <div id=”wrapper”> wider (1100 to 1200 px wide), and added more
   margin around the widgets (for example) — and then the theme looked much nicer
   on my 30” monitor
 * Best wishes
    KajMagnus
 *  Thread Starter [Keep2theCode](https://wordpress.org/support/users/2thepoint/)
 * (@2thepoint)
 * [13 years, 10 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/simplastic-theme/#post-2875597)
 * Hi KajMagnus, thanks. 🙂
 * Yeah, that will depend on what people prefer and I tried to reach a compromise
   between super-wide and small low-res monitors.

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