Refined — Portfolio / Business xHTML Template

It depends on html sales, don’t have a clear date yet but I will update you once I do

in _admin/function-shortcodes.php search for the words using search.

Sorry, I had mistaken the theme you where asking support for.

For this theme you must extend the validity form validation script. You can find the documentation here: http://validity.thatscaptaintoyou.com/Demos/index.htm#LanguagePackages . You need to add this jquery code in plugins.js somwhere.

If you need help setting it up then contact me using the contact form on my user page and I’ll help you further.

Yes.

Since the design doesn’t have any overly complicated graphics I usually find it enough to draw the first page to set the feel of the theme and the rest I do in the browser directly.

I’m sorry that it is not enough fro you workflow.

go in style.css and find this line

#slideshow-index ul li .slidetext{ position:absolute; bottom:0; right:0; width:430px; height:159px; padding:20px 0; overflow:hidden; z-index:20; }

and reduce width by 20px.

I can’t help only based on what you pasted here. Can you contact me please trough the form on my user page and offer a link to your website?

Yes, the contact form has field validation and sends emails. All you have to do to it is replace the default email with your own in send.php

I work on a PC and have FF. The font looks fine. It used to looked a little bad when I didn’t have ClearType enabled and configured ( XP ). Is that the case with you? If you don’t like it you can change it to a different font from google fonts or use a default system font like Arial.

The validation script needs to be extended to do this:

Here is the documentation: http://validity.thatscaptaintoyou.com/Demos/index.htm#LanguagePackages

so basically in plugins.js you need to add:

$.extend($.validity.messages, { require:”#{field} your message .”, match:”#{field} your message.” });

Go in _admin/functions-shortcodes.php and use search to find these words and translate them.

When creating templates you have got to keep a balance between the ease of editing it and the overall speed.

So some of the things you consider errors are actual like that to make editing the theme easier for beginner – for example i could have easily combined and minified all javascript and moved it to the bottom of the page but then it would be a lot of hard work to see update scripts / modify extend things.

I will go through the list of “problems” and offer quick solutions. Most of these should be done just before the site is launched and can be done with online tools and services.

1. Optimizing images – easy to do with yahoo’s image optimizer service http://www.smushit.com/ysmush.it/

2. Creating sprites out of background images – http://spritegen.website-performance.org/

3. Moving javascript to the bottom of the page is easi to do with cut and paste and minifying it can be done with this online service – http://jscompress.com/

4. Minimize css – http://www.cssdrive.com/index.php/main/csscompressor

Also i would like to point out that fixing all errors as you ask is not possible before the site is done.

An example of this is the case with the “Serve resources from a consistent URL ” error – it is basically telling me that there are files with different locations but the same content.

This happens because for example if I have a 3 column portfolio I don’t use just 1 dummy picture I make 1 for each portfolio item so when a customers edits the website he can easily just open the image up in their graphic editor and it’s faster then having to create several pictures and link to them as you also do not need to edit the link in the html.

Also note that the preview has some added files ( for example the files for the background changer) that lower the overall score and aren’t in the download.

I am confident enough that it is so easy to do this and that it only can take 30 minutes max and that I can get a score over 90 point, that I’m willing to optimize the website for you ( after finishing it and sending it to me ) just to prove a point to other people following this topic.

It depends on your skills. you could try to make the width of the wrap and of the column classes be in percentage to make the layout fluid, but then you have to look and fix other things like the sliders for example.

It is a html template, so anything can easily be changeable provided you know html.

It is in your Downloads area. just click the Download button next to it.