Wordpress Theme Development Presents: Elements of SEO

April 22, 2008 // Drew Stauffer

Wordpress themes are an easy way to change the entire look of your website. Free wordpress themes are even better. Every time I develop a new theme for public use I end up using it myself. What can I say, I get too attached.

But as the saying goes, “If you love something, set it free.” So, I’ve decided to release my Elements of SEO theme.

Elements of SEO is a fully customizable (but why would you want to) wordpress theme developed by me, Drew Stauffer. Thinking mainly of heavily content driven sites that usually don’t have that many exciting elements, I designed Elements of SEO to provide a bit of pizzazz while still maintaining the contextual integrity. With a primary focus on typography, Elements of SEO is clean, white, and fresh.

As a bonus along with the regular theme files I have also included a zipped file of some recommended plugins that I use. All of the plugins have been tested on this theme and are ready to go.

You can download Elements of SEO right now and begin using it immediately or you can read a little more about it on my wordpress themes page.

** UPDATE 07/08/08:
There were a few bugs with the view of the theme in the users dashboard after the initial launch, but everything is running smoothly now.

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22 responses so far ↓

1 owponlinewebpromotion // Apr 22, 2008 at 12:50 pm

Online promotion is the method which we use in all aspects of internet marketing to generate response from your target market. Online marketing can reduce your pay on ROI.You would experience a drastic change at the internet marketing when compared to the previous work. It can even save your money and time.
2 runescape gp // Apr 27, 2008 at 2:42 am

why would you
3 Runescape Powerleveling // Apr 27, 2008 at 2:42 am

maintaining the contextual integrity. With a primary focus on typography, Elements of SEO is clean, white, and fresh.
4 Jaimee // May 5, 2008 at 6:36 pm

Very nice! Perfect for my upcoming project!
5 Drew Stauffer // May 6, 2008 at 1:09 am

@Jaimee

Thanks for the kind words. I’m glad you like it. Let me know if you have any questions about anything.
6 John King // Jun 18, 2008 at 4:30 am

nice drew! I love this blog template and am a sucker for good typography. this site is looking great as well.
I also liked the writers block blog.
I would love to read some sort of a rating system for new widgets & plug-ins or the latest rad plug-in.
7 Drew Stauffer // Jun 18, 2008 at 3:02 pm

@John

Thanks man. In my off time I’ve definitely been enjoying designing more Wordpress templates. I should hopefully have a few more coming out soon.
8 David Potter // Jun 27, 2008 at 4:40 pm

I really like the appearance of this theme. One problem I noticed is that when viewing Internet Explorer (v7), the text is butted up against the left border with no space. It displays fine on Firefox. Have you seen this? Could you check it out and provide a fix?

Thanks,
David
9 Drew Stauffer // Jun 27, 2008 at 5:56 pm

@David

I’d be glad to provide a fix for it but I’m not quite sure which part your referring to.

Any chance you could provide a screen shot. My IE7 and FF versions look the same on my monitors and I want to make sure I’m fixing the right thing. You can email the screen shot to me @ drew [at] alibiproductions.com

Here is the demo version if you need it:
http://elementsofseo.com/
10 David Potter // Jun 27, 2008 at 6:04 pm

Ah, I see what the problem is. When you set the width of the browser window to exactly the width required to eliminate the horizontal scroll bar, there is no space on either side. It turns out this happens on IE7 and Firefox. Sorry for the confusion. Let me know if you’d still like a screenshot.
11 Drew Stauffer // Jun 27, 2008 at 6:19 pm

@David

When I designed the theme, I was banking on the fact that users always adjust their browser windows to make them larger and smaller and I was thinking that users would always make their window large enough to fit all the content.

Once you adjust your browser window to display all the content (plus a little more space) then nothing sits right on the edge. Does that make sense?
12 David Potter // Jun 27, 2008 at 6:22 pm

Yes, I see that. The problem I ran into is that my browser window happened to be exactly at that width. I tend to prefer not to change my browser width from site to site. I think it would make it look a little more professional if there was always some space on each side to avoid the text looking like it runs right up against the border.

It’s probably an easy thing for me to change in the CSS, so if I end up deploying this theme, I’ll probably make that change. Thanks for discussing this with me, though. Your responsiveness is very refreshing
13 Drew Stauffer // Jun 27, 2008 at 6:25 pm

@David

Well keep me posted. If by chance you want to use the theme but can’t make the fix I’ll gladly adjust one custom for you
14 Andy Howard // Jun 27, 2008 at 10:55 pm

Very nice theme, perfect for text-focused blogs. Great work.
15 Drew Stauffer // Jun 28, 2008 at 12:36 am

@Andy

Thanks a lot Andy
16 Manu // Jul 1, 2008 at 4:51 pm

Thanks Drew for the nice theme. Only issue is that why is the Theme Preview page showing the entire CSS besides the screenshot of the theme, rather than just the author info as the case should be? See it here.
17 Drew Stauffer // Jul 1, 2008 at 7:10 pm

@Manu

Thank you for bringing this to my attention. I will begin troubleshooting it immediately.

I’ll let you know as soon as it’s ready again.
18 Manu // Jul 1, 2008 at 7:48 pm

Great! Looking forward to the update.

One more thing, I set a background color for left and right sidebar, but its only displaying only till the point the sidebar content is displaying. How do I make it appear for the entire length of the page?

I’m currently using the theme so you may have a look. Sorry not too good with CSS so don’t know what to change.
19 letrodectus // Jul 4, 2008 at 12:52 pm

this is a very nice theme! its exactly what I’ve been looking for in a past few weeks. Thanks a lot for developing the theme, and more over - making it free
20 Drew Stauffer // Jul 9, 2008 at 1:05 am

UPDATE

All theme bugs have been fixed and everything is working smoothly.