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About Artisan Creatif

Artisan Creatif was designed and developed, by the We Are Pixel8 team, to be a turn-key WordPress theme solution for design studios, agencies and professionals. Aesthetically inspired by the works of Josef Müller-Brockmann, a pioneer of Swiss Graphic Design, the theme can be used out of the box, with Theme Options and widgets, or as a parent theme to develop your own custom child theme.

About the Interface

The interface was designed on a 960 pixel, 16 column grid with a strict 20 pixel baseline grid for typography. The native installation of the theme includes two color schemes, Light and Dark.

Typography

Artisan Creatif’s CSS font-stack, which includes Helvetica Neue, Helvetica and Arial (for those pesky Windows machines who do not have the versatile Helvetica Font Family installed), is as simple and elegant as the interface itself. This stack is paired sparingly with a serif for visual contrast. The serif stack includes Baskerville, Palatino, Palatino Linotype, Hoefler Text and Times New Roman.

Theme Options

Theme Options
Theme Options

Artisan Creatif’s Theme Options, powered by Devin Price’s invaluable Options Framework, lets any authorized user manage the built in modules including:

  • Upload logo and favicon images
  • Choose between two color schemes (Light & Dark)
  • Enable or disable the Quick Contact Module
  • Enable or disable the portfolio slider on the home page and select how many recent portfolio items to show
  • Choose between two different portfolio sliders (Large & Small)
  • Enable or disable the Home Page Body Copy Module with associated widget ready sidebar
  • Enable or disable the Home Page Blog Posts Module with optional slider
  • Globally set location of your sidebar, either right or left
  • Enable or disable related blog posts, author bios and blog post featured image

Our Theme Options page is meant to be simple, intuitive and to not get in the way of what is important to you: publishing your portfolio!

Portfolio Custom Post Type

As an Artisan Creatif user, you will be able to manage your portfolio seamlessly within the WordPress environment. Upon installation, the Portfolio Custom Post Type will be created, with a custom taxonomy called Services. Your custom post type also comes with individual case study pages for sharing detailed information about each project from slideshows, stacked image, a featured image or video. Why stop there? Have testimonials from satisfied clients? Share them on your case study page as well.

Any authorized user will be able to manage the following aspects of the Portfolio Custom Post Type:

  • Publish as many portfolio items as you see fit.
  • Write case study text and client testimonials
  • Enable related case studies (a total of four displayed randomly based on shared taxonomy) on a post level.
  • Choose your gallery type on a post level (featured image, stacked images, slider images, video)
  • Stream videos from YouTube, Vimeo or your own self hosted FLV or MP4 files with in post preview of videos
  • Enable or disable availability messaging on case study pages, portfolio pages or both
  • Chose between three different portfolio templates (grid, 2 column, 1 column) all with built in filtering of taxonomies
  • Create as many taxonomies as you see fit.

We’ve gone to great lengths to include as many of the possible options that are important to you.

Blogging Solution? No problem!

Are you also looking for a blogging platform for your news, thoughts, ideas, whatever? Publish blog posts easily with Artisan Creatif and keep everyone up to date on what is happening in the world of you. Create as many categories as you need and build relationships between posts with tags. Publish code tutorials or image galleries with just a few clicks. Interact with your users with nested comments and so much more.

WordPress 3+ ready, willing & able!

Artisan Creatif was developed for WordPress 3+ with WordPress theme development best practices in mind. The code is clean and free of proprietary, non WP functions. The following is at your fingertips:

  • Two WP 3+ navigation menus
  • Six widget ready sidebars
  • Six custom widgets including Twitter Feed, Flickr Feed, Contact, Testimonials with slider, Tabbed Content and Recent Projects
  • Author archive
  • Custom templates for portfolio and contact pages
  • Two page templates

Make sure you browse our other pages for more information.