From a designers perspective
I was a long time Atahualpa hacker with basic CSS knowledge when I purchased Themeframe. A graphic designer by trade, Themeframe was exactly what I was looking for – the framework with which to create custom themes for WordPress. While Themeframe is still under development, and yes it still has a few annoying little bugs, I still love it to bits (with the occasional grrr) but we can now get there in the end, and my latest theme, I have to say I’m pretty damn proud of.
By creating custom page templates with a completely different colour schemes, you can create a very colourful and interesting website. The example demonstrated through link below was created with Themeframe 1.2.3.
In TF, I created the “look”, all in index.php, except for Menu 1, styled in TF/Menus.
Then I created home.php and page.php, copies of index.php (neither of these are probably required, but its easy enough to create them so I do just as a matter of habit these days).
Then I created single.php (copy of index.php, but use container of “Default Single Posts”)
Created archives.php (copy of index.php, but use container of “Default Multi Posts”)
And finally a custompage.php, again based on index.php but then changed colouring, links colours etc and specific elements of the Menu 1 for a completely new colour scheme for those pages only.
Only one CSS insert was required to give a different border-bottom colour to Menu1.
All templates included a widgetarea1 at the top, except single and archives (just because I wanted them to look different, and I may change my mind and include the widget area on all pages), and into that widget area I placed a Slideshow plugin (two copies).
By using a widget plugin, I inserted one slideshow into the default colour scheme, and another slideshow into the custompage template pages, so when a reader is on an orange/ochre page they only see the orange/ochre slides, and when on default purple pages, they only see the purple slides.
I used one of the supplied responsive layouts (TF/Global Settings/Layout Settings) with a full background layout template on all page templates.
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