Meet Brighter by Zigzagpress : Premium WordPress portfolio theme that provides minimal design. This theme proves to be ideal for agencies of all size. So freelancers, big photo studios and all business can use it. It’s versatile layout can easily change the look of your site from portfolio to business or to blog. The theme includes custom homepage and portfolio options. So administrator can easily implement any type of details on frontpage.
We loved the page load speed and elegant clean layout which puts content in top visibility. Whether you need a corporate site or photo gallery website, this is one solution for every need. Genesis Framework (of studiopress) has to be installed to use this child theme on server. You can buy it from Studiopress site, in-case you don’t have it handy.
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Brighter WordPress Genesis Theme : Best Points
Homepage Design : As you plan to create a portfolio or any type of website, you have to decide homepage layout first. Because, most of the traffic tend to come over homepage area. So whatever you display on homepage area does really matters for your business and visitors. The homepage in demo highlights portfolio items entries in masonry grid style. The bottom most part shows 2 featured sections which are linked to About and Contact page.
So we can say that Brighter demo shows an agency oriented homepage layout which shows project sample to visitors. Once user is satisfied then he can check out company details from “About Us” page. If you add contact page link on homepage featured blocks then it can encourage new visitors to contact yo for inquiries. Though, menu bar can still show all these page links, but it makes difference when you add then on home content area.
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Homepage is all about getting visitor’s attention on what’s most important about your business. If you start a business site then you can select to add services, client’s list, price table box, calls to action, and much more. The demo is only simple example that works for freelancers and small agencies. You can customize this genesis child theme as required by your situation.
The responsive design adapts to mobiles, iPad, Tablet and other devices in smoother way. So no need to create different for different screen resolutions. Zigzagpress genesis templates comes with custom shortcodes, and widgets. So you can add slider, maps, columns, accordion, tabs and other sections easily. The demo shows a service page with many sections and all those elements are added using shortcodes.
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Modern Design : Brighter WordPress theme provides highly advanced design to speed up browsing process. Two main features of modern design goal are : Floating header and Back to top button. The header always remains on top when user scrolls over the site, this is only because of floating mode. So user won’t be wasting much time to access menu from any location of the site.
After scrolling on long pages, you will see Back to top arrow button for automatic scrolling. Just single click on this button will scroll user to the top most part of the website. So it will again save time taken to scroll up side all the way from the bottom. The elegant background, minimal design and fast page load speed are also notable features of it’s advanced coding and design work.
Fixed Header and Navigation : The header sticks to top area all the time as it is powered by floating mode. Apart from that, it shows left spot for logo image and right spot for menu button. This menu button looks same like you see in mobile applications. The menu is not visible unless you click the navigation button. As you click this button, it will instantly show you menu links using “Full screen Overlay”.
This new menu style is powered by ajax code which shows menu on your screen without refreshing the page. While viewing menu on screen, you will see links and close button in the middle of the screen. User can see all top and drop-down links in vertical style.
Brighter Child Theme : Other Points
Portfolio and Blog Features : The portfolio panel is available on back-end side so you can add categories ad manage projects from there. The project post type helps you to list all your work with photos, slider, video and work details. All projects are displayed on single page so you can use filterable portfolio or gallery style page. Portfolio articles show next and previous project links, so user doesn’t have to go back to view more items.
The blog page shows all latest posts using single or multiple columns. You can choose page layout style for portfolio and blog templates. The single blog article shows next/previous post links, author details and related posts. We loved the way it shows related posts using nice thumbnails. If you check sample blog posts then it shows how shortcodes can optimize way of showing contents.
The top of the project post shows slider, video or whatever media you have used. Same way, blog post shows full-screen post heading with custom background image, just above the post title.
Custom Page Templates : Adding pages into website doesn’t take long time. The theme provides page attributes for every need, so you can add portfolio, blog and other sections. Extra pages like services, about and contact can be built-up in normal way, without using special attributes. You can use shortcodes on any page to optimize content display style, just check demo service page to see the power of shortcodes.
The shortcodes helps you to add parallax featured background, custom title and use other stylish for all sections. So you can develop simple, or highly stylish pages to easily interacts with readers. Contact Form 7 is used to add form in contact page and you can use same plugin to get easy inquiries from website.
Before conclusion, you must know that customizer shows all theme options options in one place So admin user can manage logo, color, background, font, pages, homepage and everything from single board. Genesis settings panel gives you extra options and this framework is very secure.
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