Flexi is my first WordPress theme release and with all new project there are some issues. This latest release hopes to resolve most of those issues.

Here are the latest updates:-

• Removal of H1 tag for site title
• Cross browser CSS3 improvements
• Sidebar widget bug fix
• WordPress page menu fix

Download the free theme here

Sometimes I stare at the work I have created and think ‘well that’s crap’; then other times I look at work that I thought was good a day or week ago and think ‘why did I think that was good?’. Now this might seem quite self-deprecating but without this I just don’t think I would have ever improved, or keep improving.

There is not a day that goes by that I don’t look at my industrial peers and glow green with incredible jealously at the amazing work they produce; combine this with my self-deprecation and you may think that I am heading for career meltdown, but I feel this is my greatest power as a growing designer.

In my line of work I meet many people who clearly feel they can do no wrong, everything they produce is amazing and they are always right. When these people are designers, every piece of work they create is amazing in their minds and they are the best at what they do, even if in other’s opinions they are not! For years these guys keep rolling out the same formulaic work with the same inherent flaws and mistakes; and seem completely oblivious to the fact they as people never stop growing and learning.

So my striving to be better, to take inspiration from those who I may never be as talented as are my strengths, every project I create I aim to be unique, every mistake I learn from and I keep moving forward to try and make myself the best designer that I can be. If I ever stop and say to myself  ‘that piece of work is amazing’ then I have failed, my learning curve will have ended, and I will have not achieved all I am capable of – So ‘I am a crap designer’; and that is the way I will stay.

Flexi is a responsively designed theme based on the well loved Sandox canvas theme. With basic styling and structural CSS, this is my attempt at a project base-theme to save time and effort in the early stages of any new project.

There are many great stripped back themes available but very few that offer the flexibility and easy to use base structure of Sandbox, which I have used religiously now for the last three years. The sad truth is that in that time Sandbox has missed out on some of the great updates that WordPress has rolled out, such as, custom menus and footer widgets meaning that with every new project Sandbox needed to be brought into line with the current technology.

This is what inspired me to create Flexi, as well as the recent changes in the way we all use the web, including the explosion in mobile and tablet Internet usage. So along with the WordPress function updates I have also added some basic structure to save time as well as making the overall framework respond to whatever device the user prefers; not to mention a little CSS3 easing to make the whole theme feel a little slicker!

You can view and download the live theme here

This project is a little trial-and-error for me, so if you spot something that isn’t right, or you have a suggestion please feel free to contact me here and I will see what I can do.