May.21.2007
Orange Sky WordPress Theme
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Author Information
Orange Sky was designed and coded by Naoko McCracken.
Description
A beautiful two column, widget-ready, right sidebar theme with a cool color scheme and warm banner.
Comments by Small Potato
Stepping into WordPress theme development, Orange Sky wasn’t one of the themes that I learned from. No, it was THE theme that I learned from. I tore it apart and tried to digest bit by bit. Not only did Orange Sky taught me WordPress techniques, it introduced me to the Sliding Doors of CSS (horizontal navigation with background image tabs).
Although I don’t usually recommend learning from old WordPress themes because you need to stay up-to-date with the new WordPress versions, Orange Sky is an exception.
IMHO there are too many colors.
The orange header doesn’t fit well with the surrounding colors.
Anyway I like very much the sidebar and the color of its links and backgound.
How did you learn from this? Just curious what you dissected and learned from as far as WP techniques.
it’s so old.
Brian - I wanted to learn from a theme that mirrored the WordPress Default Theme. Orange Sky was it.
Orange Sky modifications were most useful, like calling for RSS and Trackback links and sliding doors technique. Getting familiar with wordpress functions will help you save lots of time.
Also, Orange Sky’s author area isn’t hidden like it is in Kubrick. I learned that you can create a full theme without displaying everything.
Overall, it’s a good theme to learn from.
Orange Sky is a very interesting theme, I used this to improve my sites. It’s a good theme to learn the basic functions of web’s programming. It has wonderful colors and I advise them to everybody.
[…] with me as I continue to change my crazy theme on here. I really loved the last one, Orange Sky, but it wasn’t widgetized. Then I tried to add the widgets myself, but I am clearly not smart […]
i use this thema on WebSite.
very intrstng work.
Orange is good, but i not like colors!
[…] OrangeSky If you like orange color, then i think its really good theme for you. Functionality […]
Not badly. But also it is not so good)
I love this theme. And I widgetized it. Finally.
[…] so steht es zwar nicht in der Bibel, aber ich bin dennoch wieder zum alten Layout “Orange Sky” gewechselt und nach etwas Mühen habe ich auch die Sache mit den kleinen dynamischen Anzeigen am […]