fahad19

Hey, I am not a designer

Since I can't design super awesome backgrounds or logos with ultra cool text effects, I decided to design something simple yet elegant by making the most out of my CSS skills. As you can see, I have used two OpenType fonts (thanks to CSS @font-face) for titles, navigation bar, anchors, and form labels.

I didn't think much about typography when I started working on the theme, but after experimenting with a few OpenType fonts I understood how quickly they can change the entire look of a design. I think I will soon become a typography geek if I keep designing a few more themes like this focusing on typography ;)

Fonts

Just in case you are wondering what fonts I used, here they are:

• Delicious (for logo)
• Anivers
• Chunk

Will be released as a package soon

I will be releasing this theme as a package for other Croogo users soon.

Lots of new features have been introduced after the release of Croogo 1.1, including multilingual content and theme uploads right from the admin panel. Keep yourself updated by watching the project on github: http://github.com/fahad19/croogo.

Download

Here is the download link: http://code.google.com/p/croogo/downloads/list.

For installation instructions, read this wiki page.

What's new?

• Web based installer
• Content filtering in admin panel
• RSS feeds
• Improved Settings
• Bug fixes (including an important one for ACL plugin - by @finjonkiang)

For a complete list of commits, click here.

What's next?

There are a number of things I want to add to this CMS. Here is a short list:

• i18n: Internationalization
• Extensions: for uploading themes, plugins, language packs right from the admin panel
• Theme editor
• Users: this requires more work
• OpenID
• Forum plugin
• Cache: for better performance

Hopefully next version will include unit tests.

Feedback is always welcome.

Hey guys, a new release of Croogo will be available for download this month. A lot of improvements have been made in the repository, but I still noticed people downloading the old 'zip' file.

The official repository is on Github. But I will maintain the svn repository on Google Code too (updated weekly).

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