So I recently took a look at some of the great work at the website of designer/developer Chris Coyier CSS Tricks and I noticed he was working with a theme called Starkers. After doing a little bit of Google work and visiting the website I found that it was another naked wordpress theme. All it really has applied is some basic layout information and a reset file. It has all the base files already created like, page.php, single.php, category.php, 404.php and others.
I had recently finished developing this website with Thematic, which at some points were arguably easier then some other frameworks. But what I really noticed after I started working with Starkers was that I really liked the control that it gave me. To really understand thematic, I had to go to the thematic forums to understand how it was built to solve certain problems. It’s definitely a great framework but I really enjoyed working with Starkers for that control.
Well recently I decided that I wanted to start making the move to HTML5 and started looking for a wordpress theme using HTML5 to get started. This eventually lead me to Starkers HTML5 which is basically the same as Starkers, except that its markup is using HTML5 elements and already has the files necessary to get it functional in other browsers.
Divs have been replaced with section, article, footer, header, hgroup and more. It was a really nice find and so far its been a lot of help getting into the groove of developing wordpress themes in HTML5.
You can find the link for info on, and for the download of Starkers by Elliot Jay Starks here
and for the HTML5 version by Nathan Staines here
Starkers and Starkers HTML5 WP Themes
So I recently took a look at some of the great work at the website of designer/developer Chris Coyier CSS Tricks and I noticed he was working with a theme called Starkers. After doing a little bit of Google work and visiting the website I found that it was another naked wordpress theme. All it really has applied is some basic layout information and a reset file. It has all the base files already created like, page.php, single.php, category.php, 404.php and others.
I had recently finished developing this website with Thematic, which at some points were arguably easier then some other frameworks. But what I really noticed after I started working with Starkers was that I really liked the control that it gave me. To really understand thematic, I had to go to the thematic forums to understand how it was built to solve certain problems. It’s definitely a great framework but I really enjoyed working with Starkers for that control.
Well recently I decided that I wanted to start making the move to HTML5 and started looking for a wordpress theme using HTML5 to get started. This eventually lead me to Starkers HTML5 which is basically the same as Starkers, except that its markup is using HTML5 elements and already has the files necessary to get it functional in other browsers.
Divs have been replaced with section, article, footer, header, hgroup and more. It was a really nice find and so far its been a lot of help getting into the groove of developing wordpress themes in HTML5.
You can find the link for info on, and for the download of Starkers by Elliot Jay Starks here
and for the HTML5 version by Nathan Staines here