I’ve just updated the theme for the Adelaides website, to bring it up to date and give it a more contemporary feel.
The new home page layout directs visitors to the area of the business they are most interested in, and each area of the business has a slightly separate visual identity (different colours, logos and headers). We’re also working on improving the content and making the site more useful to guests, nursery parents and events co-ordinators.
The key design and technical features of the redesigned site are
- Child theme of Twenty Ten. The theme folder only contains five files plus two CSS files, and uses a lot of the features of TwentyTen including header images and menus.
- Featured images are used to drive the different header images for the different business areas.
- All menus (including those in the sidebar for the different business areas) are controlled by the WordPress 3.0 menu system
- Gravity Forms has proved invaluable to develop simple, usable contact forms for the different business areas
- Introduced some more interesting fonts using font-face declarations (I will one day update to use Google Fonts but I couldn’t find the font I was looking for in their limited list).
I’d be interested in your comments on the design. Fire away!