Magazine EE Theme: Magnetic
Themes have never caught on in our community (even WooThemes ditched selling them) and that’s most likely because most people use EE in a different way than they would use WordPress. I don’t think there are a lot of website flippers (kind of like house flippers before the housing bust in the US) using ExpressionEngine.
But I am still intrigued by themes in ExpressionEngine. I wish more people were exploring building them and how it might help us improve how we develop sites with ExpressionEngine.
Doug Green announced in the EE Forums that he created a new ExpressionEngine theme called Magnetic. It’s a magazine theme with a simple design.
You can read more about Doug’s theme in his blog post or in the announcement forum thread.
Posted on Aug 23, 2011 by Ryan Irelan
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Doug Green — 16:54 on 08.26.2011
Hi Ryan. Many thanks for the post and links!
I think themes for EE can come in handy when used as a starting point for a project. I’m sure most designers and developers have common techniques that they use for many of their projects. Creating a theme that takes care of some of those things during the installation would help speed up the development process, and reduce the repetitious work.
Since EE is a custom platform, some assumptions need to be made when creating a theme, which won’t be right for everyone. But for those that might want a starting point, a theme could be useful.
Ultimately, it would be nice if it were easier to export a theme, so developers could more easily create their own basic installation.