A DIFFERENT TYPE OF AGENCY

As a collective, The Factory Interactive is fueled by a passion for developing enduring messages conceived through a marriage of design and technology. At the core, we are explorers of possibility and architects of memory. We create rich immersive experiences that increase message retention and reward the audience. Our mission: give personality to products, resulting in a stronger, more effective brand.

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Inspiration: WordPress Customization Examples _{By jason}

The explosive growth of WordPress has spawned a number of homogeneous sites all utilizing the same boring, header, footer layouts.  However as more developers discover the power of WordPress, the platform is being adapted and customized in new and inspiring directions. Here are a few I’ve stumbled upon, (special thanks to freelancefolder for the original inspiration for this post).

Many of the themes below utilize a number of the WordPress plug-ins (there are over 4,100) to achieve their customization goals.

Carolina Jesus

This is the portfolio site of Video Game Environment Artist, Carolina Jesus. It is by far my favorite custom WP theme.

Alamo Basement

The Alamo Basement is the portfolio site of Illustrator, Kelly K. The header graphic is a creative flash animation, with thumbnail graphics of Kelly’s illustrations below.

fabrikade

Fabrikade (pronounced as fab-ri-kayd), is an ecommerce site conceived with the aim to showcase Singapore and foreign indie design labels via the World Wide Web. The site utilizes the WordPress Ecommece plugin and paypal for transactions.

Thomas Haemmerli

Thomas Haemmerli is a Swiss Author whose (non-English) web site features an incredibly crisp, clean and bright design. There is a nice CSS design to the comment form fields, but otherwise you wouldn’t specifically know that the web site is primarily a blog (other than the dated posts).

The Rubicon

The Rubicon is global portal for people engaged with the mission of The Salvation Army. According to the site “theRubicon provides a gathering place where opinion and discussion, education and disagreement, community and common cause, news and calls to action can find a venue for expression.”

Conclusion: The sites above rpresent the tip of the iceberg and we can look forward to seeing even more creative ideas in the future. As you can tell we here at TFI have been building, and customizing WordPress powered sites for some time now and think that it’s the Cat’s pajamas. So if you’re looking to implement WordPress into your next project give us a ring, and we’ll show you just how far you can take this amazing platform.

Filed under: Design — Tags: CMS, CSS, custom, Design, wordpress — @ 7:46 pm

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