Double-J Design » Theme

Free Giveaway: 5 Awesome WordPress Themes

Double-J Design — Thu, 22 Sep 2011 18:08:17 +0000

Here we are very pleased to run this free giveaway contest. We’ve partnered with Themify to give away 5 awesome WordPress which are worth more than $200. Here is your chance to win them for free. To enter the contest, all you have to do is enter a comment in this blog post. Anyone is welcome to enter this contest. No purchase is necessary. If you could follow us (@doublejdesign) or tweet about this giveaway, it would be appreciated.

Contest ends on Oct 24, 2011. Good luck!

How to Enter

Write a comment in this blog post and tell us which icon set of Double-J Design is your favourite (You can view all icon sets here)
One comment per person.
The winner will be selected randomly.

Themes for The Winner

Here you can find the details and live demo about the themes we are giving away. We will send all theme files to the email you used in the comments.

Folo

Wumblr

Tisa

Elemin

Blogfolio

Great Thanks to Themify

We really appreciate Themify for sponsoring this giveaway. They produced a large number of WordPress themes with great design and usability. The customize and setting functions in the Admin panel are truly amazing.

Update

The winner is izwanyusof. Congratulations!

Double-J Design Theme V3

Double-J Design — Sun, 22 Nov 2009 23:17:09 +0000

It’s has been only around a few months since the last update of the WordPress theme here for Double-J Design. In my opinion, it has been not quite successful. I actually have got plenty of feedback and comments from lots of sources (e.g. comments on Double-J Design, replies on wordpress.org.cn, etc) Most of them are positive and a number of great designers pointed out some critical issues or bugs or problems in the last version of Double-J Design theme (Version 2). For example, browser compatibility problems (mainly about the support of IE6), HTML and CSS mistakes, etc. I didn’t really have time to modify a lot about the old version and I though the design wasn’t too nice as well.

These days, I spent some spare time to redesign and refine an updated version (V3) of Double-J Design WordPress theme. Today, after some initial tests, I am happy to officially change the V2 theme into this new V3 theme.

Here I would like to introduce further more about some of the changes in this version of the WordPress theme design.

New Logo

Firstly, I would like to introduce the new logo of Double-J Design. As Double-J Design is aiming for designing better Icon and GUIs for our clients. So in this logo, a square and a circle are simply being used for representing icon and GUI. Here I use the logo in a dark background then the typographic is in white. There are some variations i.e. simple color version and greyscale version which can be used in different situation like printing or distribution.

Homepage and Individual Blog Page

In this version, the homepage is pretty simple as only the last entry is shown in detail. The most recent five entries are shown in title list. Another section which is called Recent Featured Work has been introduced to show the most recently designed custom project. In the way, space has been saved and the recent featured work has been emphasised.

A full screenshot of the homepage is attached here.

However, I have to reorganise all the recent design projects and produce some preview images for the recent featured work section. Therefore, this feature is temporarily not available at the moment.

Since only one entry is shown on homepage, I therefore produced a individual blog page for showing more the recent blog articles. Big thanks to Nick from N.Design Studio and Icondock to teach me some of the tricks in WordPress template settings.

Other Features and Effects

Sliding Navigation Menu

Someone suggested me to insert some dynamic or animated element in my blog theme to give it some nice feature. Here I have included one of the popular animated elements sliding navigation menu. This technique is taken from jMar’s blog using jQuery to implement an animated sliding navigation.

Rounded Corner

Rounded corner is a new feature in CSS3. However currently, some browsers have already implemented this technique. For example, Safari 4.0, Google Chrome. Simply insert the following lines in the CSS style sheet. There will be nice and crisp rounder corners.

img.thumbnail, img.left {
background-color: #EFEFEF;
border: 1px solid #bdbdbd;
border-radius: 5px;
-moz-border-radius: 5px;
-khtml-border-radius: 5px;
-webkit-border-radius: 5px;
float: left;
padding: 10px;
}

I haven’t tested in more browsers. But unfortunately, it’s not working in IE (even IE8). And also, this feature is still a new feature which is only implemented in CSS level 3. Therefore the CSS validation on the bottom of this page is taken without this rounded corner feature.

Latest Tweets

I started to use Twitter about half year ago, and now there are around 100 people following Double-J Design (@doublejdesign) on Twitter. So I put a section to show the latest tweets on the footer of our website. Thanks to the WordPress plugin Twitter for WordPress by Ricardo González. It’s really simple and useful. Here is the final look of this section.

Conclusion

Last time, I actually got a number of complaints that the previous old theme didn’t work in IE6 perfectly. This time, I particularly paid some attention on this. And now, it should be OK in IE6. However, I will be testing this themes for a couple of days and make it into a proper general WordPress theme later on if all the main issued within this version are solved. Therefore your opinion and suggestions once again become very important. Please feel free to write comments on this. I will much appreciate for your advices.

Double-J Design Blog Redesigned

Double-J Design — Thu, 27 Aug 2009 13:58:46 +0000

It’s been quite a long time since I was planning to redesign the theme of my website Double-J Design. And now it is ready and here it is the first release! This time I used more bright colours than the old theme which was in dark blue. As Double-J Design is focusing on design ICONS and GUIs for web or desktop applications as well as print projects, on the home page I put a target line “Looking for Icons?” in order to how the primary services of Double-J Design.

However, there are still some problems or bugs with this theme and I will try my best to improve it. For example, I found that the layout will be slightly different in Internet Explorer and Safira, the positioning of some texts are different. I also found that in Internet Explorer 8, using compatiable view will be better. I will be trying to minimise the mistake in the template files and CSS style sheet. Therefore I desperately need your comments or suggestions or solutions to those bugs or porblems which will be all greatly helpful in the improvment of my site in the future. Also after a few of days and after a few tweaks, I would like to contribute this theme to public as a WordPress theme. Thanks again for your visit to Double-J Design and hopefully everyone can find useful resources here.