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Turkish Carpet Web 2.0 Wordpress Theme

Here is the final release of the theme I have been working on. I hope you find the design attractive since its a bit unusual, but I believe that it shows what you can do with CSS styling. The Turkish Carpet Wordpress Theme has that warm Turkish hospitality with design elements like patterns and textures of a traditional Turkish Carpet.

Turkish Carpet Web 2.0 Wordpress Theme

I was very lucky to find the background pattern in one of Jon Waraas ’s web sites. Thats how I got the inspiration to design this theme. As you can see the pages are listed above the blog title and underneath the Blog Title, you have three link boxes. I find a lot of probloggers placing these boxes at the top of their themes nowadays. However you need to configure Top Posts and Recent Comments yourself. You will need “Top Posts by Category” & “Recent Comments” plugins.

Turkish Carpet Web 2.0 Wordpress Theme

Single post pages feature numbered comments and stylish Comment Input Boxes. Eventhough the page is loaded with images, they are optimized gifs with transparency. The total size of all the images and icons on this theme is 29 Kbs. John Chow’s Zonda image is alone 18Kbs. And I have to say some of the jpeg files on that theme looks awful because of the compression!

There are two icons on the right sidebar. You can link them to anywhere you like, but I suggest you link one of them to “Add to Technorati favorites” and the other to Feedburner RSS Feed. Headings on the sidebar and the post content have custom made icons to their left as well.

There is not much more to say really. I would like to say thanks to everyone who have helped me in this project.

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15 Responses


tobe on 11.07.2007 at 4:08 pm

I like it. not too overloaded - nice and simple. only, i think it could have done with just a little more colour. some dark red maybe.

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vangardx on 11.13.2007 at 9:20 am

hello there, nice design you have :D i luv it

Chris Norton on 11.13.2007 at 1:39 pm

Great theme! As you were talking about optimising the images: more so than the total filesize is the number of HTTP connections that need to be made to retrieve all the files. This isn't too bad in this case as there isn't an extreme number if images but it could be improved by using CSS sprites for the icons.  Something for a new version perhaps? :)

Jon Waraas on 11.14.2007 at 12:11 am

Great theme :)

Burnes on 11.14.2007 at 10:23 pm

Pretty~!
Downloading. ^____^

And Thanks for share. =D~

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Debt consolidation blog on 11.21.2007 at 11:45 pm

Great theme! I will use it for my blog. Keep up the good work!

skarld on 11.23.2007 at 3:44 am

The combination of elements in your design are tremendous. They work together, creating a modern edge. I have added it to my collection.

Sercan on 11.26.2007 at 10:14 pm

gerçekten çok güzel tema olmuş.paylaşılacak mı ?

Turk Hit Box on 11.30.2007 at 9:17 pm

Yukarda "download Turkish Carpet Wordpress Theme" yazan resme tıklarsan, indirebilirsin.

Condom Man on 12.04.2007 at 12:43 pm

Thanks for the awesome theme, I'm going to try it out, and I gave you a digg. Good luck -

Dario on 12.15.2007 at 10:09 am

It's not a Zonda, it's a Lamborghini Reventon. ;)

Turk Hit Box on 12.15.2007 at 3:04 pm

It was a Zonda, he has changed it to a Lamborghini Reventon just recently.

Top Seo Blog on 02.12.2008 at 11:02 am

Really wonderful template. Hope someone would convert it to blogger :)

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