PowerUp!

Let’s face it, login forms are boring. They have a critical purpose, but are often times at the end of a designer’s punch list. This is why I created the FancyLogin jQuery plugin. Out of the box, it adds a level of customization that your users will find useful and eye catching.

FancyLogin uses the jQuery Javascript Framework to stylize form inputs based on whether or not they contain content. If the form input is empty, it adds a “blank” class; if it contains content, it removes the “blank” class. This allows you to stylize the inputs with only CSS, requiring no inline javascript.

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Recent Wordpress Theme Releases

A couple of our designers have recently released some themes for Wordpress, an open-source blogging platform.

• Effercio Blue - A two-column theme for Wordpress. Support Wordpress tags, dynamic sidebar and widgets, and includes custom link and archive page styles. Future plans for this theme include adding additional color variations. (Demo)
• fu Punk – A punk rock, bad attitude WordPress theme. The primary colors are red and gray with some white mixed in for good measure. The template uses a right sidebar to display your feed, categories, pages, and links. The layout incorporates numerous odd curves and shapes that give the template a weird yet organized feel. fu Punk screams defiance and has attitude to spare.
• Grape Mint – A clean two column theme with a right sidebar. The primary colors used are Purple and Green.The sidebar displays the search bar, index of pages and has a separate area for post categories.
• Gray Day – A two column theme with a right sidebar. The primary colors utilized are Gray and Blue. The top area is prepared for you to show off a few social sites and is prepared for you to use the WP Audioscrobbler plugin for last.fm stats.
• Push Pin – A clean and classy WordPress Theme. It has a right sidebar with a top header bar. The green header bar contains your site’s name, your page links, plus an email link. The splash image area contains your website slogan. The primary colors are green and blue with green representing the links and blue representing the headers.

Work is underway on several additional themes as well. As they become available, we’ll announce them here on the site.