Julian Klewes

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Feather

This Wordpress theme is the third version of the all-time famous and beautiful Rainbow Feather theme.
Rainbow Feather is a fluid one-column wordpress theme. As the name suggests the colours in this theme are rainbow-ish. From blue, baby blue, to yellow, orange, white, blue gradient and pink, barbie pink to evil pink. Cool features include: Fancy web2.0 like headings (wet graphics), custom badges â€œread onâ€ and â€œcontinue readingâ€, matching color scheme/palette, Login area that shows logged in users (well it shows you and gives you options).

This version includes many bug fixes and modifications, specifically it can now boast with unmatched cross-browser compatibility in regard to such a complex design and piece of Wordpress code: Firefox, Internet Explorer 7, Internet Explorer 6 and Safari render the site identically. Another great feature is the added widget-support. This version of Rainbow Feather is now 100% widget-ready. This means you can drag & drop most widgets into the pink footer.

Improving the usability of this theme was a major goal that is why in addition to the changes described above, I have contacted many people to help me out with the localization of the theme. As by the time of writing this manual the Rainbow Feather v3 theme is available in German, English, Portuguese (Brazilian), French, Turkish and Romanian. Plans to release Dutch, Italian and Danish localized versions are in progress. I need to thank everyone involved and the 100+ mails I have received to date as well as the 70+ comments on the theme itself. It is you, the people, who have motivated me to put extraordinary amounts of time and love into this project and to love â€˜designing and programmingâ€™ again.
Thanks everyone!

Demo (use drop-down theme switcher on bottom of page) at themes.h4×3d.com

Download Rainbow Feather V3

Are there resouces, Photoshop files (PSD), etc? YES!

Here is a quick teaser video (Windows Media File) that shows how beautifully the widget-support is built-in, as well as the native Lightbox/Slimbox support, but also the cross-browser compatibility. Rainbow Feather is now looking all the same in every modern browser (Firefox, Internet Explorer 7, Internet Explorer 6, Safari). Also, I added more php-fanciness to auto-cut long titles, a (currently) four pages manual and even more… please stay tuned and don’t hesitate to bug me/leave a comment.

Overall Preview (21MB WMV) | Show video online (new window)
Cross-browser compatibility (16MB Flash) (new window)

Remark concerning the “possible” XHTML Invalidness: Rainbow Feather is XHTML Valid if it wasn’t for the fancy widgets. Don’t worry – it displays all fine in all major browsers, see screenshots blow (click to enlarge).

The theme page of the initial release is here (this page’s old content so to speak)

RESOURCES I decided to put them on a separate page to not increase the clutter on this page (even more)

* Icon credits on this page: nato-kino

From the latest Rainbow Feather manual

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1 year ago
July 16th, 2008 8:12 am

Ã‡ok GÃ¼zel Hareketler Bunlar

You are really great.Here i saw the turkish version of theme and i’m so glad .Thanks again

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1 year ago
July 17th, 2008 7:16 pm

Alban

Hey there, loved the theme. Still in the midst of making some changes and thanks for the advice on SlideShowPro… Will look at other alternatives before making a decision. Thanks again!

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1 year ago
July 26th, 2008 8:02 pm

Astris

Hi there, LOVELY THEME! Congratulations, I’d like to know one thing, can I change the pink color at the bottom please? Im not a pink fan…and can I add a link to your page, an exchange to the favor of creating such nice theme?
Thank you!

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1 year ago
July 26th, 2008 8:44 pm

jez

@Astris: hello astris, thanks for the kudos! if you dont dig the pink (and I can understand you), you can get the photoshop files and change it yourself, its really a matter of minutes.

in regards to the link: as the CC 3.0 states the link has to stay anyway, but if you want to feature me in addition to that, you are more than welcome. keep in touch, jez

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1 year ago
July 27th, 2008 1:19 am

Again!

Hi again, that photo gallery which plugin did you use? Flickr? Or is the gallery of images from the blog itself? Thanks! Which ones do you recomend please?

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1 year ago
July 27th, 2008 11:22 am

jez

@Again!: hello mate, I think I mentioned the gallery aspect (not sure what you mean by that – the lightbox (popping up thing) or in the footer the widgets?) in the readme.pdf – it is a four pages document that gives plentiful advice on these topics. feel free to address any other questions here, thanks!

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1 year ago
November 12th, 2008 4:31 am

cenzi

okay, so i tried your layout… but although I love it, and think its so great, the cons outweighed the pros. This email is not to shit on you, but quite the contrary, I thought I would offer my insight to why this theme DIDNT work out, as fantastic as it is.

I just found that it wasn’t good to my readers that you had to click so much to read things. For example, the first post is cut off, so “continue reading”…. and then you had a show of the last 5 posts (one of them being also in incomplete form under the latest entry). I managed to bastardize this whole theme as much as possible… until I realized that it was just better to take a screen shot, cry for the loss of a beautiful theme, and continue on.

I can see this being an awesome theme for different audiences….

I imagine that you will probably read this comment within the next 48 hours, so I’ll leave the theme running for a couple more days.. I might hack the shit out of it enough to make it what I want it to be, and keep it!

alright man, be well!

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1 year ago
November 12th, 2008 10:31 am

jez

hello cenzi,
thanks for offering your feedback, both kudos and critic is welcome-
I looked at your site, but it seems to have changed.
My intention to offer free themes is not to piss people off or develop crap that sits on the net – rather to bring free joy and exicitement to people looking for a free theme.

Did you get the latest v3 theme and did you follow the faq readme.pdf?
I would be glad to help you sort matters out, because even though one point is valid that you state (you have to click around a lot), I think it is still a clear and fancy theme ;)

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1 year ago
November 14th, 2008 6:43 am

cHaiNa

hi jez, i am using a slightly edited form of your feather theme on my website neopattaya.com! great job and also very easy to use for a newbie like me! thanks alot and keep up the good work! also thanks for the simpson episodes! ;) cheers and greetings from thailand – cHaiNa :)

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9 months ago
May 27th, 2009 11:38 am

Nguyen Duy Anh

I’m trying this template online. I think this theme is good. I found that the theme looks bad when all the text with link is underlined. I’ve tried to remove this but haven’t found the solution. Can anyon help me?