WordPress Starting Points
With the currently progressing update to the Dra Studio and some recent client projects, I have been trying to find a decent WordPress theme or framework that I could start from and build each future project on. After trying out quite a few nice and fully-featured ones, including Thematic, Hybrid, Starkers, The Buffet Framework, and Emptiness, I found myself more encumbered than enabled ... having to match up with their structure and layouts, working within their rigid (or at least overly-complex) CSS style frameworks, etc.
I ended up utilizing the clean and simple 1024px theme as a staring point and building out my own parent theme. I'll probably continue to tweak it as I move forward with projects (e.g. just this weekend I added some baseline CSS typography styles, using insight from the Blueprint framework), but it has already aided me immensely in my WordPress deployments. So has MAMP ... which, if you haven't already switched to locally developing WP installs, you should.
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