Recently I have been doing allot of clones jobs, that is, creating WordPress themes that try and visually emulate existing sites. In these cases I have been creating these new WordPress themes for the owners of the existing sites so there are no ethical issues…
Most of the time the original sites are done with old school tables so I don’t have the option of using the original html files. The existing css files vary greatly in their usefulness. So, what I generally do is recreate the most important parts of the site in Photoshop so that I have all uncompressed graphics for the main areas and cut that up for the headers, repeaters, footers, etc. and make a basic xhtml document form that.
My philosophy is that I am not trying to recreate the original site exactly, I am trying to make it 90% similar and bloggify it with the other 10%. Here’s an example:
Original Site . My Blogified, Cloned WordPress Theme
This WordPress Theme is about 90% done as I post this…
Why not put this theme for download. I think that is a very good work
April 24th, 2007 at 1:54 am
Hey Pablo, Well, it was created for a paying client so it wouldn’t be very cool to post it as a free download
But I have been thinking about creating a dead simple theme for download so stay tuned.
April 24th, 2007 at 12:20 pm