Frank Schulte-Ladbeck

Variations on the Voyager theme in red and blue

I mentioned in my post discussing the Voyager theme, that I was inspired by the idea of a red background that would fade to a lighter color. I created that theme in blue, because of looking at other factors, I thought that it might work well. However, I wanted to play with different colors to see how the theme’s feel would change.

I decided to experiment with a red toned background, and then a green toned background. For the most part, I am happy, but I do see one issue with these themes. Grading a color through its spectrum may produce lighter tones that you do not like. Red going to pink, and green fading to that light green tinged with yellow. Still, I felt that the themes worked, so I decided to release them. I think that I will set-up a site using one version of this theme for photographs taken around Houston.

To read about the features of this theme, you can read the original post, but I did fail to mention one feature. Most people do not make effective use of their 404 pages. For the Voyager themes, I have changed the page from the simple message of “Error- Page not Found” to something more useful to your visitor. Now they will encounter a page that guides them to search the site through a search box or through a tag cloud. If you are unfamiliar with tag clouds, think of a list of words that can be clicked to lead with posts and articles that have been tagged with that word or phrase. I might suggest that you take this editing further with a personal message or photo to create a unique page. On my yourhoustonhomeinspector.com site, I have a picture of a garage that collapsed with the message “how did you break that?”, then search options.

Download Voyager 2 (red toned).

Download Voyager 3 (green toned).

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