Beyond Random

April 23, 2009 in Wordpress by Clay/Admin

This weeks theme was brought to my attention by Angger Atmawarin and since I really enjoy minimalistic themes, this one is great! Its called Modern Clix by Rodrigo Galindez at Rodrigogalindez.com and is a great theme if you are a fan of minimalistic themes like me. Enough chit chat…on to the theme!

Enjoy!

Oh, and don’t forget the previous installments of Theme Thursday!

FEATURES:

• A strong focus in typography. The combination of leading, weights and type families is essential in any published media. Modern Clix displays texts and images beautifully and includes a set of nice ampersands, by-lines and other type goodies for you to enjoy. Check out the header of this blog for an example.
• A strong grid. Texts and images are perfectly aligned to a 960px grid; uncomment a line in the CSS file to show up the underlieing grid.
• An elastic design. Flexible layout? Fixed Layout? Elastic! Modern Clix is coded using EMs, so its layout is automagically stretched when you adjust the font size in your browser. Wowers!
• Golden rectangle. Artists like Leonardo da Vinci proportioned their works to approximate to this rectangle, which has been considered universally aesthetically pleasing. The theme was designed following this principle.
• Full width images and captions. Display images as large as 596px of width, with their proper captions or descriptions. The theme also include classes to align images to the left, center or right.
• Twitter and Flickr integration was never easy. Just change the sample usernames for your own ones and you are ready to go.
• Extensible and modular. Modern Clix is minimal, but it’s extensible to suit your needs. Uncomment certain parts of the code to unlock gravatars, tags and widgets. Google Adsense is also supported.
• Standards compliant. Modern Clix validates as XHTML 1.0 Strict and it’s cross browser compatible. This means that it works well in every browser in the planet.
• Easy installation. You don’t need extra plugins to install the theme, just unpack and activate to enjoy it.
• Professionally designed and coded. This design was featured in Smashing Magazine, Vandelay Website Design, Design By Grid, CSS Gallery and others, as an example of beautiful, minimal web site design. Now you can download it for free.

DESIGNERS QUOTE:

Modern Clix is a minimal blog theme inspired in the Swiss Style of Design: It features Arial/Helvetica, grids, a generous use of whitespace for better readability and a strong focus in typography.

Download It Here!