Eli Gundry

WordPress is by far my favorite blogging/CMS platform out there. From the thousands of plugins, the excellent backend, and millions of themes available, it would be foolish to ignore it when approaching a project. So, a couple of years ago, when I started using WordPress, I found the Blank WordPress Themes by Refueled extremely helpful. But since then, my needs have evolved and I need more than that when it comes to theme development.

Enter the Blank HTML5 WordPress Theme by Eli Gundry

This theme is intended for web designers that don’t have the knowledge or time to learn WordPress theme development from scratch. It’s also a great fit for experienced Wordpress developers, because honestly, who wants to build WordPress themes from scratch?

Like the name infers, this theme was coded in HTML5 and thus uses as much of the new elements as possible. The only <div> you’ll see are the ones inserted by WordPress. I used as many <section>, <header>, <nav>, <aside>, and <footer> tags as possible. Also, your SEO will bolster with the introduction of the <time> tag, with corresponding datetime attributes, wrapping your post and comment times. And, finally, I included the Modernizr Javascript library to insert these new tags in older browsers and allow you to really control fallbacks for HTML5 elements and CSS3 attributes.

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Welcome to the newly launched Think 256 Designs. My name is Eli Gundry and I will be chaperoning you though this mystical adventure of design and code and I hope you will enjoy being my guest.

Some quick facts about the new site:

• It was designed by Jayson Shenk and coded by myself, Eli Gundry
• It was coded in HTML5 and CSS3
• It is built on top of the WordPress blogging platform

Be sure to check back often. I will be updating this blog often and hope to have lots of interesting content coming soon.