twe4ked web design studios

Sinistral is a simple left aligned free WordPress theme designed and coded by me, Odin Dutton. This is my first free theme release and I would love some feedback. Any suggestions or modifications that you would like to see in future versions as well as bug fixes please use the comments below to discuss them. Check out the live demo here.

Screenshots

Sinistral

Sinistral Options

Installation

1. Download Sinistral

2. Use an FTP client to access your host web server, and upload the
Sinistral theme folder to /wp-content/themes.

3. Log in to the WordPress Administration Panel.

4. Select the Appearance panel, then Themes.

5. From the Available Themes section, click on the Sinistral title.

6. A preview of the theme will be shown. To activate the theme click the
Activate “Sinistral” link in the top right.

7. The settings page is located in under the Themes menu. For more info on
editing the settings page please go to the Sinistral theme homepage.

More info

Changelog

• Before v0.8a: Development and testing
• v.0.8a: Sinistral Released

The Name

Sinistral (adjective)
of or on the left side or the left hand (the opposite of dextral), in particular:
- left-handed.
- Geology relating to or denoting a strike-slip fault in which the motion of the block on the opposite side of the fault from an observer is toward the left.
- Zoology (of a spiral mollusk shell) with whorls rising to the left and coiling in a clockwise direction.

For any other help you need with this theme, feel free to ask in the comments or send me an @reply on twitter, my account is @twe4ked.

Icons:
Social Network Icon Pack by Rogie King

Licence:
All WordPress code is released under the same licence as WordPress itself, the GPL licence. The rest of the code including all html and css is free for personal and commercial use although my links must remain in the footer. If you wish to remove these links please contact me first.

Demo: Sinistral

Download: Sinistral (150)

The era of the Yodeling Yak is upon you all, welcome to my redesigned blog. The redesign of this site has been underway for a few months now, but in the last week(ish) I have put in some proper time and effort to bring this design to life.

I started out with a basic list of things I wanted to change, this included; a dedicated homepage with a separate page for my blog, a white design, a useful footer and a wider 960px layout. Just about all of the designs of this site have been black, back since before I used wordpress and I’ve wanted to make it lighter for a while mainly because I am so comfortable with dark designs I needed to get out of the ordinary for myself. I did however make the footer dark grey (very dark grey #111) so as not to step to far out of my comfort zone. The wider layout is something I have needed for a long time, for some reason the site was still stuck in the 760px width and there was just way to much wasted space, even 960px is fairly small these days but it seems to be a nice standard to work with.

There are still a few things that need updating, such as old posts and the Archives page isn’t finished yet also my portfolio only has a handful of my work in it. If you see anything that doesn’t look quite right, I have probably overlooked it so please let me know in the comments. I would also love to hear your comments and criticisms in the comments (that are now finally threaded) so tell me what you think! If you’re new here and want to see what this site looked like before tonight check out my old design and tell me what you think of the change.

Yeasterday, I was playing around with PHP and for the sake of making somthing I made a simple ‘Is it yet” application with a countdown of days until the selected event. If you don’t understand what this does I have included a screenshot.

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What is this twe4kcss thing anyway?

twe4kcss is my personal css file that I use whenever creating a website, it has been in the making for the past year and I thought I would give it out so others could possibly get some ideas to use in their own code. You can take this code and use it as you wish, its yours for ever! If you do use it a tweet or link would be greatly appreciated.

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The download includes the basefile.css, index.html to test the file and 8 selected icons from FamFamFam.
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