PixoPoint

We’ve completed a large update today for the PixoPoint Template Generator. The changes include a huge number of bug fixes. Thank you very much to the dozens of you who have reported various bugs to us, without your help we wouldn’t have been able to improve the system. If you have any questions or bug reports, please leave them in the forum.

Some new features have been added for premium subscribers including the ability to add the date, RSS feed links and search boxes to the header, plus breadcrumb links and a dropdown sub-menu.

The Aqua Vaccinium template features a smooth blue and green design and has a prominent dropdown menu built in (no plugin needed). The template was originally released as a standalone theme, but has been incorporated as one of the standard templates in the PixoPoint Template Generator.

Download template as a WordPress theme

Download Aqua Vaccinium WordPress theme

The big blue bar

The blue section (below the main menu) is controlled via the ‘Main menu shadow’ section in the ‘Main Menu’ box in the template generator control panel.

If you require any (paid) customisations specific to your site, please get in touch via our contact form.

Naming

The word Aqua came from the mixture of the blue and green tones of the design. The name Vaccinium is the genus for a variety of berries including blue berries which we baked a pie for in honour of the new theme.

Hellish Simplicity is a minimilistic two column design with a distinctive red, black and white design. It was created as the blog theme for http://ryanhellyer.net/ and by request was made available to the public as a free download and has now been added as one of the default themes to the PixoPoint template generator.

Download template as a WordPress theme

Download Hellish Simplicity Version 2.0 (link coming soon)

Modifying sidebar widths

The grey border which runs down the sidebars in Hellish Simplicity are created via the sidebars graphical background. If you change the widths of these sidebars, you should modify/create a new graphic to match the new width.

Copyright

This theme was not originally released as a truly open source theme. However it is now available with a BSD license.

Basic blue is a minimilistic two column template which was designed as a simple base for more advanced designs to be created from.

Download template as a WordPress theme

Download Basic blue 1.0 (link coming soon)

Basic blue as a base

This design was used as the base to create the other templates for the PixoPoint template generator including ‘Hellish Simplicity’, ‘Aqua Vaccinium’ and ‘Yoghourt’. By simply editing the various options in the template generator, the Basic blue template was morphed into the other drastically different creations. With minimal work, you too can develop your own entirely new designs.

Creating your own templates

If you modify one of the core templates in such a way that you think it would be suitable as one of the core templates, then please post your saved XML file in our support forum. If we think it is up to scratch, then we’ll consider adding it as one of the build in designs along with credit back to you as the author.

The PixoPoint template generator has been designed to allow you to design your own website without having to touch a single line of code. Unlike other template creation devices, ours allows you to export your design as a WordPress theme. By modifying the various options in the control panel on the left hand side of the screen, you can make huge changes to the design of the site.

Activate template generator

To activate or deactivate the template generator, use the following links:
Generator on
Generator off

Please note that is a very early beta release and there are likely to be bugs in the system which we need to iron out. If you encounter any problems, please post a link to your XML file (which you can download by going to ‘upload/save’ in the menu) in our forum. We can’t track any problems without the file.

Features

• No coding knowledge necessary
• Semantic markup
• No tables used for layout
• XHTML/CSS output
• Lean, non-bloated code base

Screenshot of the PixoPoint template generator

Testing out your design

Visit our example page to test out a range of different styles which you may have in your posts/pages. Or use the preview feature to see your theme without the editing bar in the way.

Saving your design

All users have the ability to save their designs, simply choose ‘Save’ in the ‘Upload/Save’ menu and you will be prompted to download an XML file containing all of the data used in your design. If you find any bugs or issues with your design, this file should be linked to in our support forum for our techs to look at. However, we need to make a living somehow and so we have limited the ability to re-upload your designs to our premium membership subscribers. As a premium member, you will be upload your design and edit as many times as you like. Everybody can still make the same designs, but only our premium members will be able to go back and edit theirs at a later date.

If you would like to make your design available to others to work from, please post it in our forum.

Export to WordPress

For detailed information please visit the Export to WordPress blog post.

Uploading images

There is currently no image uploader built into the template generator; this functionality will be added at a later date. In the mean time, you may link to any URL you like, the template generator will copy the image and place it inside the zip file with your theme. A handy tool to upload images is the WordPress admin panel, simply upload an image, copy the URL and enter it into the template generator. And also something about images, if you are looking for an image hosting service then web hosting companies recommended are listed in web hosting search. You can select the one which suits your requirement.

Future changes

A fleet of changes are intended in future releases of the template generator. These include integration of a variety of Ajax techniques, direct uploading of images to the template generator and support for other CMS’s as well as WordPress.

Support

If you require help with using the template generator, or would like to file a bug report then please visit our support forum. Note: We do not provide free support via email.

This theme has been used for the past year by our client Fresh Edge Hockey. The theme is designed for use with our Simple CMS WordPress Plugin. It is designed purely for use on static websites and is not suitable for blogs or sites which require sidebars.

Demo

Ice Edge Theme Demo

Download

Ice Edge WordPress Theme

Features

As with the Simple CMS theme, “Ice Edge” does not display comments, tags or categories. This theme is only designed to display WordPress Pages as part of a static website.

Support

Support for this theme is available in our themes support board.