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Dark Matter 1.0 for pixelpost released

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Saturday Jun 14 2008

I'm proud to present the release version of my Pixelpost template Dark Matter to the world. This template is the result of over 2 months of hard, hard work. It's safe to say this release represents 'the best of me' in terms of design and web development best practices. The template is highly accessible, has 100% degradable unobtrusive javascript and has a neutral but classy design. It's powered by the excellent YUI Javascript framework.

Going Commercial

Dark Matter is also the first thing I've ever released with a commercial license. For non-commercial users it's free and licensed under the CC-NC license but for commercial users there's a $99 license fee. I sincerely hope you'll think it's worth the money. If not, there are plenty of free alternatives.

I decided to do this as a experiment to see how well it will do compared to doing freelance client work on commercial projects.

Show it to me!

Dark Matter 1.0 can be seen in action on my own photoblog. It can be downloaded from the Pixelpost website. For more information about Dark Matter I created a small microsite for it at darkmatter-template.com.

tags: pixelpost, design, web design, javascript, xhtml, template

Future

Dark Matter isn't quite done yet. In the near future I plan to release a 'Pro' version with more features such as collapsible comments, an AJAX interactive photo exploration page and configurable page widths. This version will be available for a small fee (TBD) for non-commercial use. Commercial users who already purchased a license before the release of Dark Matter Pro will be able to upgrade for free. Version 1.0 (including bugfixes) will be free for non commercial use forever.

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At 15 June '08 - 00:45 Vladimir wrote:
Dark Matter is one of the best themes I’ve ever seen, Marco. It’s the most suitable theme for photoblog on web. Tkanks for that.

I hope my photos will be half as good as your theme

Good luck with commercial license!
At 15 June '08 - 03:11 Rose wrote:
It’s a very nice theme, Marco! My own photoblog is down at this moment, but when I’m setting it up again I really will consider using your template
At 15 June '08 - 23:28 Niwla wrote:
Great job Marco!!

Good luck with commercial license!
At 19 June '08 - 14:51 Oxidiser wrote:
Hi Marco,
I really like your template! The only thing that I’m missing is an option to reply to posted comments. I had the Reply To Comments Addon (commentication) installed but disabled it to use your template. Thanks for all your hard work. Hope the “pro” version will have the reply to comments (and sending notification e-mails) option. I’ll gladly pay a little for it!

Thanks!
At 21 November '08 - 23:54 Justin Scott wrote:
Encroyable! I love this theme, it is what has pushed me to move from Wordpress.

merci!
At 16 January '09 - 13:10 Sandor wrote:
I really like your template. I noticed a while back though that in FireFox there’s a bug. When clicking on the image info icon to expand the panel to show the histogram and such and then on the words to contract the panel it doesn’t.

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