76 Digital Remix Theme

Date: 25th April 2008 at 5:02 pm | Filed under: blog, development, themes, wordpress | Author: Sam Burdge

I have updated my site with my new 76 digital remix theme for WordPress.

The new theme is built on a model I have created for a highly configurable, versatile set of premium themes which I will be releasing this summer. The premium themes will each come in three different versions – Editorial, Media and Ultimate (which combines the features of both editorial and media versions). The themes features will include:

Editorial Version

  • Dynamic site header
  • Rotating news on homepage
  • Feed aggregator to display news from other sites
  • Dropdown navigation for sub-pages
  • Sliding sidebar navigation
  • Sliding comments
  • Lightbox integration
  • Dynamic banner / google advertising integration
  • Gravatar support for authors and commenters
  • Widget ready
  • Plugin ready
  • Author profiles
  • Various post layout options
  • Multiple language support
  • Image gallery layouts
  • Easy to use setup page
  • Feed syndication
  • Various page layouts
  • Full Instructions
Media Version

  • Dynamic site header
  • Slideshow on homepage
  • Dropdown navigation for sub-pages
  • Sliding sidebar navigation
  • Sliding comments
  • Lightbox integration
  • Dynamic banner / google advertising integration
  • Gravatar support for authors and commenters
  • Widget ready
  • Plugin ready
  • Author profiles
  • Various post layout options
  • Multiple language support
  • Image gallery
  • Easy to use setup page
  • mp3 and video support
  • Feed syndication
  • Various page layouts
  • Full Instructions

I will also release a free 'light' version of the theme set, so watch this space!

1 Response to “76 Digital Remix Theme”

  • Comment by Premium WP Theme News Links | WP-Premiums
    Date: April 25th, 2008 at 8:54 pm

    [...] Burdge is currently working on his 76 digital remix theme, which he is using on his blog at the moment and plans to release in the summer. The theme will be [...]

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Classic film & animation - Len Lye

Date: 19th December 2007 at 1:35 am | Filed under: blog, video | Author: Sam Burdge

Here are a few of my favourite animations by Len Lye made for the G.P.O in the 1930's. His style of hand colouring and printing onto the actual film itself is still mimicked (digitaly) in adverts today. Remember these films were made before colour film existed.

TRADE TATTOO (1937)


A COLOUR BOX (1935)


RAINBOW DANCE (1936)


About Len Lye: Wikipedia, IMDB

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WP Digi Clock Plugin (1.0) - New Version!

Date: 4th December 2007 at 10:18 pm | Filed under: development, flash, plugins, wordpress | Author: Sam Burdge

This easy to use plugin will embed a flash digital clock into your wordpress blog, either in a post or page, or within your blog's template (in the sidebar / header / footer etc.). The background and font colours are managed via the options menu. The clock can display the time as set on the user's local machine or as set by your web server with an optional offset. It also has options for 12hr and 24hr clock.

Installation:

  1. Download the plugin file here: WP Digi Clock Plugin (1.0)
  2. Upload the wp-digi-clock folder to your wp-content/plugins folder
  3. Activate the plugin from the plugins page
  4. Go to Options -> WP Digi Clock to choose your colour scheme and time format options

Usage:

To embed in a post or page:

type in [ wp_digi_clock ] (removing the spaces) anywhere in a post or page.

to embed in your page template (header, footer, sidebar):

use the function wp_digital_clock($x), with $x being a number or identifier for example:

<h2>TIME</h2>
<li><?php wp_digital_clock('1'); ?></li>

1 Response to “WP Digi Clock Plugin (1.0) - New Version!”

  • Comment by Mat
    Date: June 2nd, 2008 at 7:28 pm

    thanks for making a great clock.

    is there a way to change the font size?
    thanks again!

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76 Digital Wordpress Themes

Date: 25th October 2007 at 8:01 pm | Filed under: development, themes, wordpress | Author: Sam Burdge

The 76 Digital WordPress theme-set by 76 Creative is now available for download. The 76 Digital theme comes in four colour schemes: blue, green, orange and pink. It features a Flash header, which displays your blog title and tagline. It is also set up to work with many useful plugins.

76 Digital Blue - Screen76 Digital Green - Screen76 Digital Orange - Screen76 Digital Pink - Screen

Please read the readme file before installing the themes.

FEATURES:

  1. Comes in four colour schemes.
  2. Flash header displaying blog title and tagline.
  3. Compatible with many plugins, as listed below...

INSTRUCTIONS:

  1. Choose the colour scheme you want.
  2. Upload the theme to your wp-conent/themes folder.
  3. Select the them from the 'Presentation' page in your WordPress.

PLUGINS:

The theme is set up to work with the following plugins if they are installed:

  1. Dagon Design Sitemap Generator — Create a sitemap page.
  2. Get Recent Comments — Display recent comments in the sidebar.
  3. Jerome's Keywords — Attach tags to posts and have them display in your sidebar.
  4. Theme Switcher — Switch between the different themes you have installed.
  5. WP Navigation Tool (NAVT) — Create custom links for the tabbed navigation across the top of the page. Just create a group called 'tabs', then add links to it. This plugin is highly recommended!!

FLASH HEADER:

For all you WordPress wannabes out there wondering how the Flash header thing is done, stay tuned, as I will be posting tutorials about WordPress and Flash on my site in the near future, along with lots of other Flash based widgets and plugins for WP.

DOWNLOAD:


3 Responses to “76 Digital Wordpress Themes”

  • Comment by Graham
    Date: May 4th, 2008 at 9:20 am

    Hello Sam ! Great site and content !!! I’m very impressed in the page nav with the + & - action to bring the subpages in view . Is this a plugin or something you’ve developed ?

  • Comment by Sam Burdge
    Date: May 4th, 2008 at 10:56 am

    Hi Graham
    Glad you like it!! The sliding nav is something I developed using jquery. I will release a theme that features it some time soon…more info here
    Sam

  • Comment by Nuno
    Date: July 11th, 2008 at 9:57 am

    Hello

    I like very much you theme (all features), the seach results shows thumbmais it´s fantastic. I intent use it, but unfortunately I’m inesperiente future blogger and I can´t put the theme work, I unable to customize the sidebar, indeed can upload a photo.
    If you put theme work without request knowledge HTML was really wonderful.

    A hug

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WP Digi Clock Plugin (0.1BETA)

Date: 19th October 2007 at 10:48 pm | Filed under: development, flash, plugins, wordpress | Author: Sam Burdge

A NEW VERSION OF THE PLUGIN HAS BEEN RELEASED!! Please follow this link: WP Digi Clock Version 1.0

[wp_digi_clock]This easy to use plugin will embed a flash digital clock into your wordpress blog, either in a post or page, or within your blog's template (in the sidebar / header / footer etc.). The background and font colours are managed via the options menu. The clock displays the time as set on the user's local machine. Server time and timezone offsets will be a feature of version 1 when it is released. For now please try it out and let me know of any issues etc. by commenting on this page.

Installation:

  1. Download the plugin file here: Follow the link at the top of this page to get the new version!!
  2. Upload the wp-digi-clock folder to your wp-content/plugins folder
  3. Activate the plugin from the plugins page
  4. Go to Options -> WP Digi Clock to choose your colour scheme

Usage:

To embed in a post or page:

type in [ wp_digi_clock ] (removing the spaces) anywhere in a post or page.

to embed in your page template (header, footer, sidebar):

use the function wp_digital_clock() for example:

 
<li>
<h2>TIME</h2>
</li>
<li><?php wp_digital_clock(); ?></li>
 

7 Responses to “WP Digi Clock Plugin (0.1BETA)”

  • Comment by chris
    Date: November 2nd, 2007 at 11:16 pm

    when trying to change the color, what numbers correspond with what color? is there any info on this?

  • Comment by Sam Burdge
    Date: November 2nd, 2007 at 11:23 pm

    Hi, as this is the very first release I haven’t had a chance to integrate the colour picker. Basically it works by hex codes e.g: #ffffff = white, #000000 = black. For a full list of colour codes you can visit: webmonkey

  • Comment by Hien
    Date: November 3rd, 2007 at 5:14 am

    Hi Sam:

    Just tried out you Digi Clock plugin (0.1BETA). Its a snap to use. I know that you probably have plans for other features so I won’t make any unreasonably unbearable requests. There is only one thing I’d like to bring to light… non-military time. The plugin, works great with my site color scheme right out of the box. I didn’t even have to change a thing. Thanks!

  • Comment by Shawn
    Date: November 5th, 2007 at 8:30 pm

    Hi Sam.. looks good.
    I would love, however, a “countdown” feature…
    allowing us to put a clock widget on the sidebar with a configurable title to provide countdown clocks .. ie.. “Time until election day”, “Time until vacation”, etc

  • Comment by Sam Burdge
    Date: November 5th, 2007 at 9:01 pm

    Hi Shawn, the closest thing I could find is this plugin: Countdown

  • Comment by Afzal Javed
    Date: November 6th, 2007 at 7:32 pm

    I still don’t know how to change the back ground color. Please let me know in which line of plugin-code should I change the code.

  • Comment by Sam Burdge
    Date: November 6th, 2007 at 9:42 pm

    Hi Afzal,
    In the options menu in wordpress you should see the tab for WP Digi Clock. Go to the WP Digi Clock options page and enter hex color codes for the background and text colours. If you dont see the colours change at first, try emptying your browser’s cache. Hope this helps…

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