tag:www.majordojo.com,2010://3/tag:www.majordojo.com,2009://3.14250- 2010-02-26T09:25:36Z Comments for Teaser: Hybrid News Theme for Movable Type A blog about Movable Type, technology, geek-dom, science-fiction and yes, sometimes my personal life. Movable Type 4.261 tag:www.majordojo.com,2009://3.14250 2009-05-30T21:40:04Z 2009-06-05T18:24:41Z Teaser: Hybrid News Theme for Movable Type The most common request from people contacting me is for a redesign for their web site. While I am happy to work with them to completely redesign their website and engineering one exclusively for them, but rarely do people have... Byrne http://www.majordojo.com/ The most common request from people contacting me is for a redesign for their web site. While I am happy to work with them to completely redesign their website and engineering one exclusively for them, but rarely do people have a budget for a high-touch engagement like that. Most people just need a quick, easy and cheap way to get started.

Movable Type has a number of options out of the box, but lets be honest: they are dated and boring. Their is Mid-Century, one of my favorites, and Motion from Six Apart (available for free in MT Pro), but that is hardly much of a selection as great as they are.

So the mission I am taking on is to help change this. To help bring a greater variety of freely available themes to Movable Type. In pursuit of this, now when customers come to me with a small budget needing a redesign I encourage them to check out what open source themes are available on other platforms - and if they can find one they like, I will port it to Movable Type at a discount.

Most recently a client came to me asking for a "news theme." It didn't take long for us to find Hybrid News for WordPress. The theme is free and open source, which permits me to implement in Movable without worries about licensing.

Hybrid News Theme for Movable Type

I am not quite ready to release it, but I will soon. In the meantime you can check out a live demo.

The great news is that while developing the theme I added a number of features to the theme that are not available in WordPress - primarily because Movable Type allows me to add features easily without requiring a plugin. More on those when I am able to do all the documentation.

Stay tuned to this blog for the announcement when it is ready...

Update: official project homepage has been made available.

]]> tag:www.majordojo.com,2009://3.14250-comment:163236 Comment from Andy Wibbels on 2009-06-01 Andy Wibbels Can't wait to get my grubby hands on this! If you need beta testers, let me know. Great work!

]]> 2009-06-01T16:11:28Z 2009-06-01T16:11:28Z tag:www.majordojo.com,2009://3.14250-comment:163259 Comment from Gercek Karakus on 2009-06-04 Gercek Karakus hybrid theme framework is one of the best themes for wordpress. are you planning to create a base framework and put news on top of it as it is in wordpress?

]]> 2009-06-04T15:49:38Z 2009-06-04T15:49:38Z tag:www.majordojo.com,2009://3.14250-comment:163260 Comment from Byrne on 2009-06-04 Byrne In a manner of speaking, yes. This is the first Hybrid theme I have ported, so it is all encompassing if you will. As I port more, the plugin/theme will naturally permute into a framework as I abstract common elements out.

]]> 2009-06-04T16:26:59Z 2009-06-04T16:26:59Z tag:www.majordojo.com,2009://3.14250-comment:163789 Comment from Lily on 2009-08-09 Lily Is this Template Set ready for Beta or is it released yet? Where can I find it and where can I find other Template Sets by your self and others in the "Professional Website" style?

]]> 2009-08-10T04:17:07Z 2009-08-10T04:17:07Z tag:www.majordojo.com,2009://3.14250-comment:163790 Comment from Byrne on 2009-08-10 Byrne @Lily - Yes, the theme is available:

http://www.majordojo.com/projects/movable-type/hybrid-news/

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