Free Theme: Evolution

Evolution

On May 7th 2008, BloggingTips published another fine theme as part of your WordPress collection, namely Evolution. It has distinguish look, neat layout, relaxing color combinations, and easy to adapt layout. The theme is available in blue, red and green and you can easily change the color scheme by simply by changing the CSS stylesheet which it uses. Personally, I prefer green theme compare to the rest.

After inspecting it quite sometime, I found the annoyance. It was the subscription form which is located at the very top of the page. The location is a bit odd considering the fact that you are encouraging visitors to subscribe yet they have to scroll all the way up to enter their email address. I’d prefer if it is located at the sidebar instead.

The CSS files, however, failed to validate according to W3C standards. I made a random check on the file namely default-blue.css. From the results, it highlighted 3 errors which are described as follows:

  1. Line 1637: Value Error : margin-top only 0 can be a length. You must put an unit after your number : -10
  2. Line 1651: Parse Error margin-bottom::1px;
  3. Line 1661: Parse error - Unrecognized }

If you can rectify these errors, please do so. Nonetheless, it is a great theme and I like it very much.

Features

  • Customised color scheme
  • Plugins ready - Similar Post, Post-Plugin Library, Subscribe to Comments and WP Limit Post
  • Available space for widget at the bottom of the page.
  • Compatible with Wordpress 2.5+
  • Asides category ready.
  • Highlighting the author comments - differentiate them from visitors’ comments

Platform: WordPress
Add-ons: 3-columns, widgets & plug-ins ready
License: Free to use

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Posted on: June 5, 2008 | Under Themes Review 
 

3 Responses to “Free Theme: Evolution”

  1. Kevin on June 5th, 2008 1:59 am

    Glad you like the theme. Its a fair point about the subscription box. I usually have the rss feed link at the top of the sidebar however we tried something different with this theme. It would be very easy to add a subscription sidebox and place a banner in the rss area at the top of the site :)

    It’s worth pointing out that the vast majority of wordpress themes have some validation errors. It can just be difficult getting a theme to not only work on several browsers which were designed years ago and also getting the code to validate.

    That being said, I checked the demo at http://validator.w3.org/ and it said the demo page is valid with no errors. This page isnt valid and has 5 errors. This isn’t a criticism of your blog - my main blog http://www.bloggingtips.com has got a lot of errors and I’m currently looking into resolving it :):)

    Thanks again for the mention and glad you like the theme.

  2. Assad on June 5th, 2008 7:23 pm

    Thanks for the feedback, Kevin. I do like your theme a lot. I believe design simplicity is crucial in presenting information to the readers.

    Please don’t get me wrong. I did a validation via css validator of your css file (http://jigsaw.w3.org/css-validator/), not html validator. In fact, this page alone has 11 errors (and counting) due to comments. :)

    I agree with your point that to have a fully validated theme is difficult. However, I emphasize on having a valid css files as it is one of the main culprit of inconsistent appearance when viewed via Firefox or Internet Explorer.

    Waiting for more themes from you. :)

  3. Kevin on June 5th, 2008 7:29 pm

    Thanks Assad. I appreciate the feedback :)

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