I’ve been pretty busy lately, working on my network of sites based around the Thesis Theme and have even done a couple of client designs as well. If you’d like to see one of my implementations go check out Brookmont Construction Services a premier Kansas City construction, maintenance, and building remodel company. That site was a lot of fun to put together and I had a really good time building it for them.
This past week after much anticipation the beta version of Thesis 1.6 was released and I just had the chance to implement it here on this site. I’ve not had a chance to full customize this site out the way I want yet, but so far I’m extremely impressed with the new features that 1.6 offers. I can only image what’s coming when 2.0 comes out!
Quick Overview of Thesis 1.6 Features
- Design & Color Option Changes – That’s right now instead of taking the time to edit the color of a font or a background by editing your custom.css file, now you can do it directly from your design panel in Thesis. There is also an option to automatically throw a cool shadow effect on the body of your theme just by simply checking a box!
- Integration of Dropdown Menus – This has always been a big request of Thesis and now it’s finally here. I’ve not had a chance to experiment much with it yet, but you can now create your CSS only dropdown navigation from within the Thesis design panel. Another feature is the fact that you have to full ability to edit the anchor text of all your links in the menu and also easily change colors and fonts.
- Custom File Editor – Thesis now also has a built in custom file editor with syntax highlighting so that you can now custom edit your files right in the admin area without having to change a file and then upload it to your site.
- Other Changes – The IE only specific styles are now cache friendly where they haven’t been in the past. The frames around post images and thumbnails have been fixed so that they actually work. Finally the image rotator folder has been moved from the root of Thesis directly into the custom folder.
Those are pretty much the big changes that have occurred with this beta release of Thesis 1.6. Overall I think it’s a fantastic release and I’m especially excited about the drop-down menus and the overall ability to quickly edit styles and colors that’s now available. After seeing this version, as I said before I can’t wait to see what 2.0 has in store for us.
One final thing to mention regarding 1.6 is the fact that you’re only eligible to get it if you’ve purchased the developers version of Thesis. I purchased the developer’s version a little over a year ago and it’s been one of the best investments I’ve made in a long time and I run on over 20 different sites that I’ve got running right now. So what are you waiting for get your copy of Thesis today and check our everything 1.6 has to offer!
