Here’s a sketch that I put together when I needed a bit of creative out time with no consequences. It is 1000 x 150 which means that it shouldn’t take up too much room and should work well on a 1024 x 768 format screen (which is currently the majority of the world apparently). It’s nice and generic and comes in four different colours for your header viewing pleasure. The style is a little bit grunge mixed with the slightest amount of web2.0. If you want to download the zip file with all four different colours it is in the downloads section.
I’ve been running a lightly modified version of Higherground which has suited my purposes thus far. At some stage in the near future I’ll hopefully get enough time to sort out a fully customised theme. But until then, I’ve created a downloads page and periodically I plan to host anything that seems it might be useful for the future. Below is the process I went through to set it up:
I searched for the type of plugin I would need and trialled a couple including drain hole.
I decided on Download Monitor because it suited my purposes and was extremely user friendly.
I downloaded and installed it via Fire FTP, and uploaded the InfoFoundry Higherground theme available for all.
Drain hole would be handy if you were using SVN, but as far as a simple app to manage downloading through the Wordpress admin panel - my pick would have to be Download Monitor.
I am involved with Victoria University at the moment working on a project in conjunction with industry corporates predicting the future of technology. Anyways, I’m going to keep the word count down, as I don’t want to violate the NDA. Below is a sketch of some of the current ideas floating around.
I’ve been putting together a webpage check-list to try and cover a lot of the common elements that a site template could possibly include. This is the first draft:
Webpage checklist v0.1
Standard Functions
Home button
Page Heading
Page Intro text
Page Title Anchors
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I'm an Information Architect working in Wellington New Zealand who deals a lot with web standards, conventions and best practice every day. This is the place where I place findings, musings and facts as a repository for myself and anyone else who might benefit.
I'm an Information Architect working in Wellington New Zealand who deals a lot with web standards, conventions and best practice every day. This is the place where I place findings, musings and facts as a repository for myself and anyone else who might benefit. 
