Press Box Premium Wordpress Theme

Premium Blog We consider this a ‘premium theme’, but it isn’t a magazine. It looks like a blog and (if it could) would walk and talk like one too. It does look a little different then a normal blog, and has a few more options, but it doesn’t forget about its past growing up in the blogosphere.

Strikingly Simple PressBox is strikingly simple, it includes few design elements. It somehow possesses a unique presence and lets your content do the talking. From its unique header to its double sidebar - there is an amazing amount going on, even when it looks like there isn’t.

Lots of views Out of the box, PressBox can be quite a few different things. We prefer to use it with short article previews highlighting some striking imagery. You can just as easily configure it to be a portfolio, a magazine or even make it look just like a normal blog (but a little better).

Options - Plenty of Em. Getting PressBox is like getting 864 themes in one, at least that's the number of combinations for the major customization options. From views, to themes, to highlighting there are a lot of ways to configure. And the themes all have a little personality and represent a great starting point for customization.

Not Wordpress Agnostic Wordpress has a lot of great options and features. Instead of pretending that they don’t exist, we try to take advantage of all of them. Things like: widgets, sidebars, categories (with descriptions), authors (we’re multi-authors ourselves), tags, page templates (including archives, links and more) - all from a simple options panel.

Side, Doubleside PressBox makes use of two distinct sidebars. A main sidebar to display on your blog index and a mini bar that shows up everywhere else. The idea here is simple - you want to be more expressive with the kind of extra information you display on the home page. Everywhere else - keep things simple and focus on your content. There are some other places to use widgets as well.

Screen and System Tested The theme was designed to look great on modern screens and systems. We’ve tested everything in all the popular browsers. Things look great in Firefox 2&3, Safari, Opera, and IE. Things scale well in modern browsers too, so no worries about accessibility on that front. There’s even a stylesheet to keep things clean on the printed page.

Typographic Choices We care about typography - We use Helvetica for most headers and for special emphasis. Georgia is used generally for reading text. We use Verdana in a few offset regions of generally smaller type. Courier is for code and stuff like that. We even use correct quotes and dashes.

Semantically Microformatty Microformats are coming, and we love to play around with what works. There is out of the box support for author microformat (great for multiple author blogs) and we’d like to work more in as they come along. We try to do intelligent semantic things.