WordPress NoticeBoard theme
NoticeBoard is a free simple light theme for WordPress self-hosted.
Features:
- Three fluid columns that adjust accordingly as the window is resized.
- Scalable font-size that adjusts on the browser zoom.
- Widget based theme.
- Available in black, blue, green, pink, red, white.
- Custom Style Sheets.
- Google Custom Search Engine integrated.
- Google Website Translate integrated.
- Fully satisfies the guidelines and requirements of WordPress Theme Development Checklist.
- Tested with Internet Explorer, Firefox, Opera, Safari, Chrome.
- Current version.
Customizations:
- If you plan to customize NoticeBoard, then consider to use Widgets and Custom Styles to make future upgrades of this theme easier.
- Widgets and Custom Styles allow you to customize NoticeBoard, superseding the settings defined by default, without actually touching them.
- Because Widgets and Custom Styles are kept separate from the theme files, your customization will not get overwritten each time NoticeBoard is upgraded.
To customize, go to “WordPress Site Admin » Appearance”:
- Click on “Widgets” menu to add and manage your extra features.
Widgets help | Widgets list | XHTML help - Click on “Custom Styles” menu to add and manage your custom CSS code.
CSS help
Install this theme in .zip format:
- Download NoticeBoard.zip (released under the CC-GNU GPL version 2.0 or later).
- Go to “WordPress Site Admin » Appearance » Add New Themes » Upload”.
- More detailed installation instructions are available at WordPress Adding New Themes.
Links:
Suggested Plugins:
- Akismet Anti Spam (shipped with WordPress, needs to be activated)
- WordPress Health Check (this plugin will perform a number of checks on your WordPress install to detect common configuration errors and known issues)
- Contact Form 7 by Takayuki Miyoshi
- Really Simple Captcha by Takayuki Miyoshi (for Contact Form 7)
- Fast and Secure Contact Form by Mike Challis
- SI Captcha Anti-Spam by Mike Challis (for comment, registration and login form)
- Subscribe to Comments by Mark Jaquith
- PHP Code Widget by Otto
- Print This Section by Scott Hair
- NextGEN Gallery by Alex Rabe
- FancyBox by Jose Pardilla
Who uses NoticeBoard theme for WordPress:
Wed 2 Dec 2009 @ 12:23
Interesting,
Keep up the good work.
Thanks for writing about it.
Sat 20 Feb 2010 @ 12:28
Hi! This is one of the finest themes ever. I’m more of a WordPress user than an administrator, but if I ran a WordPress, I’d use this theme.
Those first two listed features…
“Three fluid columns that adjust accordingly as the window is resized.”
and
“Scalable font-size that adjusts on the browser zoom.”
…are just wonderful, and true. This theme flows beautifully, and is certainly ready for the geriatric crews that I work-with… with their failing eyesight. I encourage the aged to adjust their default browser font-sizes to whatever they like, or use control-mousewheel to size things up. This theme and the CSS behind it… is perfectly suited for that. It uses percentages instead of any hard-coded pixel sizes, and that’s just wise, future-ready thinking. Its ready for screen resolutions from cellphone sized… all the way up to the 5000 pixel-widths of Norad screens (see WarGames, the movie).
I stole a “save entire webpage” of THIS very webpage… just so I could have a handy example of a properly-fluid webpage to show to locals who I try to teach the importance of such… to. I didn’t fill out the form or download it in any classic sense… sorry. But, I suggest others do as I did, and run this webpage both online and offline… and do some browser window drag-resizing and see how nicely this webpage re-flows and always tries to keep all three columns in full view. Try your control-mousewheel font-resizing on it… see how it STILL tries to keep all the content in view? Take notice!!! That’s just FINE FINE webwork! Show it off… tell the MANY MANY WordPress pilots of it, and teach them about flow.
My congrats to the author(s) of this theme. Its just gorgeous and it is maybe… the best theme I have ever seen. Its maybe not the prettiest, your color/font preferences may vary. Its easy to change its “look” later… because this theme even uses the “cascading” part of cascading style sheets (CSS). What a rarity, and how perfectly applied. WELL DONE, ZIALINGUA!!
Larry “Wingnut” Wendlandt
Bessemer MI USA
Mon 22 Feb 2010 @ 23:25
@Wingnut
Thank you for your very flattering comment, you got the point of what i wanted to achieve with this very simple theme, that can be used as a sandbox for more featured themes.