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Yupp, all the rumors are true, I’ve launched a new project called Quommunication with its first product called News, a whole new kind of WordPress theme to help one-man news sites and blogs with little or no budget to present their content with more appeal.
At the end of last year, I did a long redesign project for GigaOM with the uber-talented guys from silverorange, and that made me think of the current state of online newspapers. I’ve done a fairly deep research about where print and screen news differs, how differently people use them and what could be done to move screen news presentation forward.
The most surprising part of this research was finding out that there are hundreds of blogs and news sites out there with really high-value content, but not with the right presentation they would deserve. And the idea of News was instantly born: a highly customizable out of the box design solution for independent news sites and blogs.
Over the Holidays I found some time to think about the idea and how I could make it happen. I decided to use WordPress as the platform for the project, as it is one of the best blog/cms systems out there, and already widely adopted, plus it has a great theme management system.
With News I want to help those independent one-man news sites and blogs with little or no budget to display the great content they have in a more usable way, and want to inspire them too, to continue their great work! The prices reflect that too: News is already starting at $75!
(You are a non-profit organization, or is even $75 to much for you? Drop a mail with the subject “Too Much”, and we’ll figure something out!)
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Wow is the only word I could utter at the moment. Seriously, You have the eye for it. Most importantly, Instead of stuffing all the features in the theme, you thought about the real needs of the common user and did it. The design, colors, typography and everything out there sits perfectly.
Congratulations. I definitely see you as one of the upcoming big guy in this area. Keep it up!
@ dy: I’ve tested it trough in Safari too, and worked perfect (Version 3.0.4 - 523.12.2). What version of Safari do you use? Could you maybe send a screenshot of the problem, many thanks!
@ Jordan: Thanks for the feedback and typo too, I’ll never write the copy at night again…
@ R.Bhavesh: Thanks-thanks, appreciate!
First-off Perhaps it’s best to respect this as a personal blog and deal with discussion around the product on the forum - it’s a top-notch theme at a give-away price.
Bence your design style is a breed apart and I wish you the best of luck with Q, not that you’ll need it. I’m sure everybody commends you for releasing themes like this at prices like this, and I’m sure you’ll reap the rewards from doing so in the future. I am eager to leave you alone so you can produce more of the same!
@ jojo, I kinda like the idea of jumping onto google so easily from a news site (less so in a pure blog). Commercially it perhaps makes less sense, but that’s not the design’s intention I think.
I don’t like the fact that you leave the site once you start searching external content, some piece of the site remaining static would have been great. But that’s for others to figure out in my view.
A good site needs 3 things BEFORE one should even think about the content.
1 - Visual Appeal
2 - High Usability (speed and user interaction)
3 - Clean non bloated code
I have to say that your NEWS theme rates FIVE STARS on all accounts. You have developed an awesome product with code that is a pleasure to work with (and I can say that because I am not that good at code, I have a designer and usability mind, your commenting is excellent).
This is a highly recommended product that is easy to customise with great support via its forum. If you are considering NEWS for your blog and would like to tweak it, have a look at these two tweaked sites.
http://www.emersive.info (mine, a work in progress)
http://www.agenturblog.de
Hi, I just wanted to let you know I’ve added the News theme to my collection of the coolest Wordpress themes going around, http://www.bestwpthemes.com. Nice work.
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