The latest incarnation of Beccary is now live, as you can hopefully see.
I’d known for a while that I wanted to do a darker blue and green theme but didn’t really have any ideas beyond that. Then a few weeks ago JD of Weblogs.us (who as you may know sponsors and hosts my WP themes) sent me Steve Krug’s Don’t Make Me Think. What happened exactly is beyond me, but after reading it a little screenshot with all these page elements and colours sitting just as you see them popped into my head.
The tree is from IStockPhoto and all icons are either from or modified from FamFamFam’s Silk Icon set. I know that the sidebar displays funky in IE5, I’m still working on ironing that out. Additional bug reports are welcome.
Now I don’t usually release my current themes to the public (blame it on my inner narcissist) but depending on public response I am considering releasing this one (replacing the tree and icons of course).
On the plus side it could work at different widths and with a lot of colour schemes. In fact, I was thinking I could package it with a few schemes – not only would that make it more interesting, but it’d then be much easier for users to add their own colours.
On the downside, I have absolutely no idea how to make the sidebar sections alternate with widgets. Hmm…
What do you reckon?
Edit:It’s now 12:10am, April 1st. I obviously didn’t make it. Hopefully there’ll be time to finish fine-tuning things this week, but no promises since I tried that already and it just sucks when they fall through. Becca’s sorry, she really tried.
Edit #2: It’s still coming, I swear! I’ve been sick as a sick dog over the past week though, so this will have to receive a to-do list demotion until I’ve caught back up with studying and work.
Oh I love it, Becca! It’s pretty, and the tree is cool – and the root at the bottom is just perfect!
It looks great! I love the dark blue and bright green combination!
It’s gorgeous. I love the little details like the leafless tree at the bottom. A couple of concrit comments for you: the gradient at the top is not at all smooth, there’s clear differentiation between layers of colour whereas the page background gradient is fine. Then the smileys next to this comment box are nicely colour-coordinated but they all look a little ill! But overall, I love it and would definitely consider using it should you make a theme available.
exactly why I gave up on widgets they seem too… uncustomizeable as they’re mostly out of the box. I like the theme! I’d use it if I wasn’t so concious about screen resolutions
Wow, I love it. It’s like one of those ‘homey’ feel layouts, ones that aren’t too spaced nor too cluttered.
It’s gorgeous! You should definitely release it.
Oh, I absolutely love this look (especially the stars at the top)! Is simple and beautiful!
As usual, it’s lovely!
Hello Becca!I can speak only a little english, but I want to say:”it’s wonderful, and i am a fan of you!”Becca I made duplicate your beachy2 theme last two weeks, I really hope you will not be angry with this, and I will never release the duplicate theme to public.I expect your next and next pretty theme Becca replied,Thanks for at least informing me that you’re using my previous blog design.I’m not angry and I understand that it may have been a honest mistake, but I would appreciate it if you could promptly remove the design. The Beachy2 theme was not designed for public release, and simply taking and using the code and graphics is essentially pirating.I fully support learning from the works of others, but there’s a huge difference between learning and taking. We spend a lot of time and effort creating our designs and for someone to just copy them without permission can be pretty hurtful (not to mention illegal).
I love this theme. The dark is a really nice change. I love the tree too!
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Too bad about having to take out the tree, but otherwise a very nice theme.
I found out through Planet WordPress about your consideration.I say GO for it! All your other themes rock too! This one would be right on top! =)
Yes! Please release it as a theme! I love the navigation at the top as well…
I just LOVE this..and I have been looking for a long time! Please release it!
congrats for the new version, my friend!
Absolutely fantastic! If you will realease this theme it would be the best from your goodies-design
Please do!
I love this theme, please release it!
Like it and would consider it for my own blog. I would like to change the colors and add some images too!
Do you even need to ask It’s beautiful!!! Please do release it..
Beautiful! Absolutely beautiful. It draws you right in… it’s very comfortable and easy on the eyes. The smilies look great with this, by the way!I think there would be a lot of people using this theme, should you release it… even with a different color scheme. The layout itself is awesome! As for alternating with widgets, I don’t know of a way without compromising the point of using the widgets in the first place. I say release this for CODERS and don’t worry about widget compatibility.
Wow, this is very nice! It looks great and once again I appreciate it’s simplicity.
Looks pretty! I like the colours and the tree at the bottom too!
I love your theme! I agree with the others, many people would use it. I would definitely consider using it. Using another one of your themes right now.
I really like it. It’s simply yet interesting which I find a hard time finding in themes. If you decide to share I would love a copy.
more crazy (Demais). I’m from Brasil, the look your jobs more time. very good.
I loooove it! Release! Release!!
wow this looks awesome. i really love it. i’d totally use it as a template. very cool.
oh yea, are you still with e.webscapes?Becca replied,Yep, still there.
It’s a very pretty theme and while I’m not sure I’d use it myself I can only assume that a great deal of people would. You’d be doing the WordPress community a huge favor by releasing this theme into the wilds. We need more polished looking works of art to play with. My two cents at least.
I would definitely use this as my theme should you make it available to the public. I love it.
Just beautiful, Becca! I really like this theme – - excellent work!
I reckon that this = beautiful.
OH YES PLEASE I always love your themes Release! release! *thumps desk*Thank you
Oh please release it with the trees, by the way – it’s what makes this theme extra special Becca replied,As much as I like the tree as well, I simply don’t own the illustration. You can check out IStock’s license agreement to read more.
Yes plz plz plz release it. All your themes are amazing and widely used. I would love to use this one if you release plz.Thanks for all your works.
Oh my.. I was going to ask whether you’d be interested to design a turtle-site, but I wasn’t sure whether you’d have the time to do so.. Would you still be interested? May I write you?Becca repliedHey Pelf, of course you can write to me! And there’s always time for turtles. I’m thinking maybe my e-mail last week didn’t get through to you, I’ll resend it in a min.
cool layout! I actually downloaded a couple of your WP themes and I am using the dusk layout now on my site. thank you so much!
I love your new theme. It’s simple but yet captivating.Just wondering when you will be releasing this theme… Becca replied,Hi Amos Most of it’s just in my head at this point, I’ve started figuring out the colour schemes but that’s about it. Hopefully the final version will allow users to customise the page width as well. I’ll set the end of this month as a tentative release date, that should give plenty of times to get things just right.
wow… becca, you never cease to amaze me!! Loving the new theme!
This is a stunning theme. I love your work, Becca
Would be great if this theme was released!
Very nice!!! Wanna leach it
Aw, I love it. I love the vectors @ istockphoto. Some of them are so creative – and very convenient to use The colour scheme is great. I love the shade of blue you picked, it’s so nice on the eyes.
hi dear, do you know that i really love your work. especially your previous theme, its so beautiful. these one is nice too!! are you going to release your previous theme for us to use?
Blue and green combination is something I am in love lately. Simplicity is another thing I am big fan of. Last thing I love are graphics over at istockphoto(vector mostly).Your style on this one perfectly matches my taste. You can see one example of my design at avivadirectory.com to see what I mean.Great job, two thumbs up.
WOW!! very cool TEMPLATE! very nice
Gorgeous theme! I love it
Very nice designs, and I really think it’s cool from you that you reply to some of the users comments, that shows that you care Thanks for your designs, if you ever reply to this, please tell me if I can contact you about a wordpress (theme) question.Guess that’s it, again thanks for the templates. – We appreciate it.
Oh, Becca! I love this new redesign. I think the blue/green combo is gorgeous together.I totally understand how you feel about releasing themes you’re currently using, I’m not sure if I’d be comfortable with that either.I can’t stand widgets myself, it seems like it’s too limiting.
This is the best wordpress theme I’ve seen in ages. You never cease to amaze me. Never.
Great theme! I would definitely use it if it were released. Great work!
Fantastic design Becca. It’s beautifully enchanting. I might have to steal a variation on your color scheme It just works so well. For my new blog “CrunchyMustard.com” (I was going for something clearly strange here) I’m working with a lot of lime greens and aquas. I’d love to incorporate the dark contrast how you did however. Again, beautiful. You’re a lovely artist and one of the premiere blog designers out there. You should go freelance!
Your layout is so beautiful!
Hi Becca,This is lovely, and I’m sure many people (as shown by the comments!) would be thrilled to have it as a theme. Did you love the Steven Krug book as much as I did? I thought it was highly practical and down to earth Becca replied,I did love it! It was easy to read and understand with some fantastic points and advice. So well written.
love your blog!xoxox
I love the new design. I can’t get over your color choices. Simply amazing.I’ll probably use some of your themes (dusk and thirteen) for the core of a personal custom theme, swapping out images etc. You do such a great job with layout, element spacing, and font sizes.It would be great to have this theme to play with as well.I was wondering how you got the sidebar to work… but if you’re not using widgets… that explains it.
Seems like I am not the only one who really loves this new theme! It is so classy and elegant! And I love the colours, you are just a pro becca, and it shows in everything you design!
It’s gorgeous, Becca! Like 049685094586 other people have echoed, the pallette is glorious – I love this blue. V xx
this is really lovely, if a tree version were available, I would switch in a heatbeat.
New theme looks great, though I really liked your last one too.BTW, I used to use your Ocadia theme before I finally got moving on making my own. It’s always nice to know when people appreciate your work.
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The redesign is beautiful! Great job.
The new theme is beyond georgous! If there were a download link i would have clicked as we speak! eerrrrr type I mean. You know what I mean. And the tree is really sweet. I really love the little line at the bottom too “You’ve dug your hole, now sleep in it.” GRIN. cute. Love your work. Can’t wait to see what you do in the future.
Very pleasing to the eyes and the layout is perfect imo. I say release it and then MAYBE Billy Bullock will port it over to Coppermin Photo Gallery as he has already port two of your wonderful themes
This is a really gorgeous theme, blue and lime are one of my favorite color schemes. The tree and little extra things are so beautiful.I use changing sidebars on my site without widgets (I hate widgets..), it only takes two lines of php, plus some text or whatever in the middle…
Yes, please, release this. I accidentally came by this site, saw the theme and said: WOW!It looks wonderfull!
Hey. When are you ready to release your new theme Sweetdreams? I love it. Very nice design. I’m planning a new web site based on your code…. please release it.
Question: When you start designing a theme, do you start from a common base each time? Like a photoshop file with common elements you use all the time. I’m curious how other web designers go about picking font sizes, colors, and spacing.
Very nice and sweet theme. Would like to see it released!
I’m a bit late to comment (my darned workload) but this is a great theme – simple and attractive, with a great mix of well chosen colours. I think it would prove quite popular released as a free theme!
Becca, so now that you know everyone loves it…where’s our link?
I really love this theme as well. You are truly talented Becca and have a way of finding colours that combine. I really liked your Beachy theme as well.
Please release your theme, I really like it. Great work
Incredible demand for a WP theme and still no sign of release, does the author realise what sort of a pot of gold she is sitting on?
Can’t wait! err.. Of course I will.
I would love to use your theme for my new site, I have been searching for weeks now and always come back to yours! Great job.
I love all your themes. I have two blogs and I have one of your themes on each. (Almost Spring and Ocadia) Your current theme is lovely and I’d appreciate it very much if you released it, too.Thank you so much for your time and effort,Carol
The layout is awesome! I love the stars and the background color; creates a “starry starry night” feeling!
This is a great theme. Clean and inviting and very cool trees. I like it!
Very nice design Excellent use of colors.
Becca,This theme is probably the most gorgeous theme I have ever seen on WordPress! Please, please let me use it for my personal blog. I love to switch my blog themes as seasons progress, and this would be a perfect summer theme. You have my utmost respect for designing such an aesthetically pleasing combination of colors and graphics. Homage to Becca!!
So you’re not gonna release the theme? Aww
I gave a little *squee* when I saw the new theme and instantly thought, “I want this layout!” Beautiful and funcational (&perfect in Firefox)
Forgot to add (whoops). Please release this theme and I’d love widget support
Is this theme still going to be released?
Hi there. Just wanted to say I really love the theme of your site. The tree looks super nice. Your Itsby Bitsy smilies are also just right for my little webcomic site. I was looking for something cute and small and they’re just perfect
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Oooh, got that second update — I hope you’re feeling better!! If not yet, then very soon!
Wow! It’s been a while since I’ve been here and now you have the best WP theme I’ve ever seen on display. I _love_ it! Please do release it as a theme. It’s just fantastic!
Oh I like it! The night sky, the tree… If I had to describe it in one word I’d say… Enchanting
The best design I have even seen on your blog, but it doesn’t have your beloved turtles. Haha. I really love the sky and the trees. Will you use another image to replace the trees? I’m eager to see it released!
Hi becca,Would you mind if I ask, what plugin did you use for the reply function. The one that started with “Becca replied,.. blablabla” every time you replied to someone comment? Btw, this theme is amazingly beautiful. Can’t wait to try it out. Becca replied in a loud and ominous voice,I’m actually just adding these in manually by editing comments, so no plugin.
Hi there. Just wanted to say I really love the theme of your site
So you’re not gonna release the theme?
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please release it!
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