WordPress & The Gantry Framework
Recently, I’ve been playing with a few frameworks to help build websites simply and effectively.
A framework is a system usually point and click interface where you can choose options and the website will be developed accordingly. A few that I’ve used are xtreme-one, carrington, starkers, and gantry. A couple of those are not really frameworks, but customizable themes. They are similar, but the power of a framework in my opinion is it’s point and click options. Here’s what I mean…
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Gantry is a widget based framework. This means that a “gantry based” theme puts widget areas in many places around the site and the way you customize the site quickly is to insert widgets, html, etc. into those widgets areas. This makes the theme really customizable and easy to use.
Here’s a quick look at my introduction to gantry. I appologize because this video is raw.
Aloha,
Arlen
Apr 08, 2011 @ 17:48:38
I very much enjoyed your video. I’ve also been playing around/testing the Rockettheme Quantive Theme 1.0 with Gantry Framework for WordPress 1.12. I’ve run into problems with the changing the background style to number 9 or 10. It then loses all the background colors and images; or it doesn’t load them? Have you experienced any such problems?
Thanks for making the video and I like what you’ve done with Quantive.
Oct 13, 2011 @ 10:50:26
How has your experience been with Rocket Themes and Gantry? Just wondering how it’s been 6 months down the road.