Client Wordpress in 10h

I have some customizations to do, but also I have some client work pending. Since this is paid I need to finish it before photoshopping Palm Trees in your Rainbow Feather theme and so on. See below screen caps if you are curious how an ugly looking 1995’s Frontpage Website can be transformed and spiced up to Wordpress 2.2.2

What did I do today? – I worked for Tarcus, a small Public Relations company located nearby my hometown. Their old site needs a hard revamp, check it out at www.tarcus.com if you care (it is not that pretty and not well coded at all. I reckon it was some intern using frontpage. Compared to the first version, which I did, the current one is more like a ’step back’ than a ’step forward’. That is why I am doing the next version again instead of some guy without a clue).

Some screen caps of their old site (and current until my work gets transfered over):

plain logo

old navigation (images,yiks- Google hates you)

Padding and margin might have sounded like Sitcome characters to the old website creator…

NEW layout by me (yes, I used parts of the ‘Water’ theme by the undersigned. It’s licensed under GPL, so no need to re-invent the wheel)

Spiced up header

Accessibility: increase/decrease font-size and a live search with suggest feature

Curly corners, not as lame as the original logo

Some dictionary like typeface for the frontpage and random images for the left sidebar

Royal free images from sxc.hu and some gradient to render a nice footer

Once all my work is done and the client accepted my work I will be releasing an open-source version of this. I am sure one or two of you will find it handy.