Hello people,

I thought I'd share my enthusiasm for the great Arras theme in here by showing my website:

http://allyouneedislists.com/

The site has been active for quite some time now and has seen some different layouts and themes in the past, but Arras really sticks. I made some minor adjustments, mainly some CSS shadowy effects, but kept it quite default overall.

Anyone got any more cool tips on how to style the site? Of course some feedback on the content would be nice as well

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oh and by the way: since my site consists of content of any subject as long as it's written in the form of a list, maybe it would be cool to make a list of like the "Top 10 Wordpress Sites Using Arras Theme" or something. I'll go ahead and browse this Theme Showcase category to see what's out there. If you think your customized Arras website got what it takes, just post yours here.

soli003 wrote:

Very nice, I'm impressed !

Could you please tell me how to obtain the shadowy grey background of your site?

Thanks in advance!

Max

hi Max,

Thanks for looking

The shadowy background is simply made in Photoshop. I could make you one if you want. Just show me to your website and let me know how dark and high you want to shadow to be.

Max,

here's an example of a shadow-sprite-kinda-thingy. Because your site is nice and bright, it wouldn't be cool to use a shadow too big and too out there. If you still want that I can make something else of course.

nice, glad you like it.

By the way, you now changed the background color as well the shadow sprite is transparent, so you can choose any color (I believe yours was white before)

What kind of header background are you looking for? I actually think the current one is pretty cool

duckbilljones wrote:

how about a header background like this (see attachement)?

When you use the same logo, though, the background will be way too bright. Give it a try and I'll see how to make it more readable.

Wonderful !!!!

You're great !!

Anyway, here's my psd file, if you need it...

zy wrote:

Nice list of sites powered by the theme.

thanks Zy, maybe you could showcase it somewhere for people to see what this theme can do?

Anyway, now that the site is picking up more and more traffic and there's a daily/weekly stream of new content, I found out the site was getting slower and slower by the day. I now signed up for Amazon S3/Cloudfront and set up CDN through the W3 Total Cache plugin.

Please have a look and tell me what you think. Also please tell me from what country you're viewing the site and how you experience browsing speed on http://www.allyouneedislists.com

here's the list of themes that caught my eye in this Theme Showcase forum:
http://allyouneedislists.com/technology … ras-theme/

If you think yours should definitely be on this list, feel free to post it in the comments on the website or reply to this thread

in the meantime I would also like to hear what you think about my (minor) alterations to the Arras Theme