Wordpress Skinning

Apr 01

Tutorials, Web Design

Something I enjoy doing and would like to be doing more of is creating custom Wordpress themes. I wouldn’t consider myself an expert, but I have managed to create a few themes so far for a few people. The theme you’re looking at now for the Go Mediazine was my very first theme I did in 2006.

We hardly ever get requests for this type of work, so we don’t have a chance to really build up our portfolio and we’re looking for clients who need a new Wordpress theme designed and implemented. The most recent theme I designed was for mine and Kim’s wedding website. Yes the Kim that works here and answers all your Arsenal questions!

Wordpress Theme for Jeff and Kim's Wedding Website

http://www.jeffandkimwedding.com

If you’re interested in hiring us to design a theme, let me know. We might be willing to cut you a deal to get more of this type of work in our portfolio.

Go Media is a creative agency based in Cleveland, Ohio. Besides the GoMediaZine, we also work for clients and sell stock artwork and design files on the Arsenal.

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Jeff Finley - who has written 202 posts on GoMediaZine.

I'm one of three owners of Go Media and admin of the GoMediaZine. I've been designing professionally since 2004 and I also play drums. Follow me on twitter!

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  • David
    Nice theme you got there bro...
    Check out http://www.designbizz.com also, These guys can help you out if you need some custom wordpress themes tho :)
  • Awesome stuff!!! I love this theme and you have almost convinced me to go buy fresh news so I can copy your layout for some of my blogs :)

    I have been playing around with my theme here and there, designed a header (first attempt at using a wacom tablet) and generally making it look better one tweak at a time, still got a way to go though!

    I cam from print design so still trying to transition fully over to web and interactive stuff.

    GoMedia kicks ass and is definitely shaping my idea of modern design....
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  • Thank you for your site :-)
    I made with photoshop backgrounds for myspace,youtube and even more
    my backgrounds:http://tinyurl.com/6rbxmr
    have a great day and thank you again!
  • Good Wedding Website.
  • Really cool theme :)
  • zealograf
    Yes I agree with someone above could you please give us a tutorial on skinning a wordpress theme. Would be greatly appreciated.
  • I am looking for a wordpress re-skinning. I am a graphic design student at the University of Utah and I just finished a wordpress site for a school project on green design and I would love to make it look great but I have no idea what I'm doing with wordpress! You can check it out a www.thegreenbox.wordpress.com. Let me know what you think you could do.
  • Last Pariah
    I would love to talk about having my upcoming Musician/microblogging (wp 2.5 based) site designed by GoMedia. it would be a true honor if this were made possible. What would you need from me to get started on a quote?
  • Sundeep Malladi
    I second the tutorial suggestion. I know the coding is probably pretty standard, as was pointed out, but I'm curious about the process.
  • Very Cool stuff. gotta love the wordpress! You guys are really a talented and diverse group. I love the web / multimedia stuff you guys do, keep it up!
  • Thanks Jeff,

    We have slowly been filling in all the dates of our past events. I have the new posts section at the bottom displaying posts by id rather than date, since we are kind of doing things backwards for a blog. We plan to have this site up for a very long time.

    I really like your countdown timer at the top. I've wanted to add something just like that, but I wasn't sure how to go about doing so. php? javascript? Suggestions please.
  • Ben,

    I like your theme! I also dig the way you encourage your friends/family to comment and all the info you have on your RSVP page.

    And I also like how you went back and posted significant dates you had like movie dates and stuff. Neat!
  • Wow! Congratulations you two. Great looking theme Jeff. I'm in the same boat with a wordpress wedding site: www.thetenthofmay.com. I merely modified an existing theme, but it has been a hit. Everyone (including myself) loves the online RSVP. I specifically designed our invites to try and build a small community of family & friends (incentives for leaving comments etc.). Well I wish you two the best of luck. Feel free to sign our guestbook if you like. I've only got 5 weeks left!
  • tutorial pleassseeeee!
  • Tao - it's just like any other XHTML page you'd make. Once it's finished as a static XHTML page, you just plugin the Wordpress snippets where they need to be. It's not all the hard unless you are really overhauling what a WP site can do. I'm not that far yet. But I can make a rad looking blog site!
  • I might be interested in a theme or maybe two for each of my websites. The other being the newly acquired www.kentuckyhiker.com.
  • Tao
    That's a great WP theme!

    I would be interested in knowing the design/slice/coding process you go through when doing WP sites.
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