The Theme Foundry Reloaded

By Drew Strojny on February 22, 2012

This past weekend we flipped the switch on a major overhaul and re-design of The Theme Foundry website, and guess what, we’re excited!

The new website represents months of hard work by the whole team, and we are all proud to see it finally go live. Below is a quick overview of the changes, along with some fun facts about the new site.

Powered by WordPress, bbPress, and Memberful. We were previously using a medley of static pages, WordPress, bbPress 1.0 Alpha, and aMember.
The layout is responsive, built with HTML5 using a mobile-first approach.
We’re using web fonts, specifically Brandon Grotesque and Proxima Nova.
The theme itself is built with Forge, our handy command line tool for developing themes with Sass and CoffeeScript.
We completely overhauled our Help Center, focusing on ease of use and better documentation. We hope you enjoy it.
We added a Customer Stories page, and it’s one of my favorite parts of the new website. Be sure to check it out.

We’re planning to share some more details about decisions we made and tools we used in some upcoming “From the workshop” posts, so stay tuned.

13 Comments

Aaron February 22, 2012

Great work guys! Love your fresh and clean designs too. Are you doing away with the forum section though?

Drew Strojny February 22, 2012

Thanks Aaron!

Don’t worry, forums are still there, we’ve just laid things out a bit differently. More focus on documentation and your questions vs. everyone else’s questions. You can still browse and search archived questions :)

Caanan Reiersgaard February 22, 2012

As expected, the new site is beautiful. Clean, elegant and a delight to use. You guys rock.

Drew Strojny February 22, 2012

Thanks Caanan! We really appreciate the kind words :)

Suren H February 22, 2012

@Drew

The design is simply awesome! :-)

Especially the Font used makes me to keep reading on your website. Well done!

Matt February 23, 2012

So elegant. It keeps the best from the old site and looks even better. You guys are good.

Drew Strojny February 23, 2012

Thanks Suren and Matt!

Jeri February 26, 2012

Question. What does it mean to become a member? I see that you have a membership login, but there doesn’t seem to be any place to established a new membership. Specifically, I am interested in accessing the members section for checking the help section.

Drew Strojny February 26, 2012

Hi Jeri!

Sorry that wasn’t more clear. You become a member when you purchase a theme. Once you do that you have access to the tutorials, help, and support. Hope this helps :)