Why thesis pays for itself after one job...

[kye172]

I just went from a guy not even knowing what business name he wanted, let alone how he wants it to look, to a functional working website in under 2 days work

Welcome to Calgary Lodge — Calgary Lodge

Spent approx 3 hours sat down discussing what he wanted out of a site, analysing the competition and brainstorming ideas, showing him wordpress etc

Spent approx 3 hours Hand Drawing / in Photoshop doing a few logos and a couple of layout ideas

Then approx 5 hours on XHTML/CSS/PHP adding to Thesis (the bitchy part was getting the menu to center align and adapting some code to get the content to auto split into 2 columns, although I was getting sleepy by then and made a stupid mistake)

If I didn't have Thesis I imagine it would easily be at LEAST another 5-6 hours on top again coding a theme from scratch, let alone having the Thesis admin panel to work with too

The site won't be full / complete till my client actually emmigrates and chooses a property, but its 95% done in under 2 days work

[phoenixreguy]

Very nicely done!

[gdpmumin]

Holy cow! That's Thesis? The stylesheet says it is, but I would never have known it otherwise. Excellent work.

[rumblepup]

Fantastic work sir!

[kllycat]

That site is absolutely beautiful! I never would have guessed that it was Thesis, but that's what I love about this theme. It's just so darned adaptable!

Is this the first thesis theme site you've adapted like this?

[kye172]

Thankyou, and no it's not the first site -

Piaggio Scooters is the first operational one I've adapted - that one uses more of the original Thesis styling and layout, but does some nifty stuff like have single posts automatically pull the latest image attachment and place it in the mediabox, and auto generate a list of other pictures to show through LiteBox, as I'm using the posts as a product listing for the bikes

Sym Scooters is the other one, although this is still very early in development. It currently just has the sub-menu listing modification inplemented (under Offers page), and was the first to change the layout a fair bit, but I've still got a few problems with it, plus need to add a second column again. I'll probably scrap most of it and re-do the code from what I used to Calgary lodge I reckon.


I've got further plans for the bike sites when I finish my current jobs (look out for an Engineering Site powered by Thesis soon!), I'm going to be putting the sub-menu code in the scooter shop site and having a play at adding a lot of accessories and so forth, as well as trying to scrap LightBox to show the pictures and making it use AJAX to rotate the images inside the standard MediaBox section, although my JavaScript is crap at best and I haven't the foggyest how I'm going to do it yet, any ideas anyone?

[rumblepup]

The functionality you have on Piaggio Scooters is awesome. PM'd you on it. Did you code that yourself, cause I would love to use it for a project I have.

[kye172]

Hi sorry for not getting back to you sooner, read it and forgot...oops

All the bike listings are just the content functions stripped out of the archive.php (or achieves, i cant remember which it was) so it just lists the title for each post

Then the actual bike pages are using a custom function which checks if a load of custom fields exist, and list them if they do. If the custom field doesn't exist, it simply won't list it at all then so you don't end up with empty bits

When I get some free time I'll post the code up as it'll take me a while to sift through and figure out which bits I've changed

[rumblepup]

Thank you so much on this. I can really use it!

[cricket66]

Kye 172

WOW! Your customized image background, header, and navigation is truly a work of art. Kudos!