Comments on: Flash WordPress Themes Galore From Milo

By: milo317@

milo317@ — Fri, 09 May 2008 10:11:34 +0000

Just visit my support forum to get help and tips =).

By: Shellius

Shellius — Fri, 04 Apr 2008 05:45:28 +0000

I like her themes but like her website itself, a lot of them don’t seem to work. I tried to make the one you pictured work and it doesn’t. It just does not work. The code in many of the themes also does not use any line breaks so it’s very hard to find what you are looking for too. They are beautiful themes but many of them are just impractical if you want to mess around and customize them at all. But the newest ones — I can’t even make them function. Let’s hope she keeps working on them because they are really exceptional-looking. They are just too complicated in many cases, not user-friendly at all.

By: milo

milo — Thu, 20 Mar 2008 10:44:36 +0000

How tp avoid loading inssues in general and with flash:
- less graphics
- if graphics then lighweight: max 20kb
- if flash then no graphics
- flash as header or background changer
- flash header file max 30kb
- flash background changer file max 50kb
- less posts on frontpage
- less gadgets within sidebars
(strip useless third party services in sidebars)
Hope that helps

By: Life is Colourful

Life is Colourful — Wed, 19 Mar 2008 16:38:30 +0000

I have observed this behavior of flash files on website loading slower in past. I can’t really dare to use flash enabled themes, somehow. But yes, I liked Milo’s themes. If she could explain how to avoid loading issues, I would not mind to use these themes and promote too.

By: Monika Mundell

Monika Mundell — Wed, 19 Mar 2008 14:23:37 +0000

@ LiC: Ah, got you now. I’m not sure about that to be honest since I’m not a designer. I guess it could slow loading depending on what else is on the site.

I know that certain java load very slow.

By: Life is Colourful

Life is Colourful — Wed, 19 Mar 2008 04:14:18 +0000

Monika, Sorry for misunderstanding. I was not talking about Milo’s website. I was thinking if we use flash template for our wordpress blogs, won’t it cause some loading time issues. I mean flash file might take time to load for first time visitors practically, isn’t it?

By: Monika Mundell

Monika Mundell — Tue, 18 Mar 2008 08:49:46 +0000

@ LiC: From what I have seen, the sites are loading fast. But I only saw Milo’s home page (kind of like a portfolio) and on there she has flash galore and it loads fast no problem.

As for the WP themes I’m not sure since I couldn’t get the demo’s to load. Duh….

@ Toki: yeah, they are cool alright. Thank you for stopping by.

By: Monika Mundell

Monika Mundell — Tue, 18 Mar 2008 08:47:28 +0000

@ Milo: you are welcome. I saw the reference to the theme switcher but to be honest when I clicked on the top right all it did was change from white to black. I must have clearly missed something somewhere.

By: Toki Tover

Toki Tover — Tue, 18 Mar 2008 04:40:32 +0000

These are some really fly themes… It is cool that they are for free. I just currently used the point blank theme.. I have been looking for an artistic magazine style theme. thanks.

Toki

By: Life is Colourful

Life is Colourful — Tue, 18 Mar 2008 02:48:46 +0000

I am certainly interested in flash wordpress themes. It will be perfect for blogs like music, entertainment, gaming niche. Only one point of concern, the loading time. If you could put some focus on how long it takes to load than normal themes with little graphics, that would help.