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Italic Smile at WordCamp NYC
You can (and should) download the Italic Smile theme at WordPress.org » The Italic Smile theme was publicly submitted for the WordCamp New York City 2009 Plugin/Theme Competition… and won!
Continue reading...Theme – version 2
The second version of the Italic Smile theme came in the form of a travel site for a couple moving to France. BManAndHtown.com is a clean website with gallery capabilities along with contact forms and a ShoutBox to allow friends and family to leave quick messages. This site shows the most recent post in full, [...]
Continue reading...Example Gallery from PuerTour.com
Below is an example gallery from PuerTour.com. This helps to show how simple it is to navigate through an image gallery by either clicking on the images or using the ← → arrow keys from your keyboard. Also notice how each image is sized to the browser screen size even if the native image size [...]
Continue reading...Theme – version 1, PuerTour.com
The first version of the Italic Smile theme was built to showcase a Puer Tea Tour through Southern China. This trip took place over two weeks and we needed a good way for viewers to easily navigate through each day. A post was created for each day along with a gallery of photos. Below you [...]
Continue reading...Italic Smile origin
The name Italic Smile came from a Google Talk conversation between Tim Bowen and Brian Gunzenhauser in late August, 2005. In August, 2005, Tim and Brian were trying out the then new Google Talk program while working remotely. In experimenting with the ways to make italic text with underscores, Brian commented on the idea of [...]
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