Hi!

First of all, I love the Atahualpa theme and recommend it to anyone who asks!

Here are 2 sites I've built using it so far:

http://braveorinvincible.co.uk

and

http://gill-blenco-educational.co.uk

I am planning on using the theme to build more sites, but hope to use custom html/css in the header to build my own menu bars :) wish me luck!

Thanks for the great theme

Nick

I absolutely love the flexibility of this theme - and deeply appreciate this forum, which I turn to whenever I'm stuck!! I'm learning fast. This is the site that introduced me to the theme Much Marcle and this is the site I was designing when I posted a thread asking if it was possible to transfer a modified theme from one place to another - How to get over jet lag.

I use it for all my Wordpress sites now - for myself and for my clients.

And since this thread is headed "showing off" - this is my most popular site in terms of visitor numbers - Anti-scam blog. And this one is close to my heart as it's about my main hobby how to improve singing.

I've been using the excellent Atahualpa since the weekend to make it a 'front end' for my google-unfriendly flash website.

The idea was to use something a lot more search engine friendly so I was advised to use Wordpress and was very lucky to stumble across the Atahualpa theme.

I wanted it to look like a site rather than a blog, it's a testament to Flynn that it looks OK despite my meagre skills. Take a look, any feedback welcome. http://www.hyde-end.com

Thanks,


Simon

Hey Simon!

Most impressive and VERY elegant! You're doing a nice job of integrating WP/Ata and your original pages. I'm probably biased but I prefer the look and feel of your Ata pages to the Flash stuff. But then, you do have to take into account the marketing goals and the target audience.

I'm definitely going to check out the iFrame and WordPress connection!

Please "come back" here as your meld proceeds.

Thanks! Jim

I really like this theme. The customizations are easy for the average WP user! Thank you...

I will soon join the Atahualpa community! :)

I am shifting two blogs to self-hosting and will use Atahualpa on one of them.

I am reading the forums here and finding it very useful.

Cheers Jim, thanks for the kind words :)

Here's my site: Newdust.com

I think what I've done makes for a good example of what some custom CSS and graphics can do with this incredible theme. Nothing too fancy here, but I'm pretty sure the unique look I've achieved with this site would not be capable on any other Wordpress theme besides the one and only Atahualpa. I was happy to donate. :)

Hey Newdust! You're right about your site having a "unique look". Your little graphic/logo in the footer above the usual "Ata credits" especially tickled my fancy -- not many people think to insert a "pretty" down there.

Question: Austin & D.C. ?? Are you a senator from Texas or something? ;)

Jim

Anyone using the Shopp e-commerce plugin wanting to highlight their site?

I'm testing the Shopp plugin on my test site ShepherdJim and am dying to see what e-commerce solutions others have used on their Atahualpa sites.

Jim

SimonKemp of Hyde-End.com -- VERY nice! Any chance you'd be willing to share what script or plugin you are using for your photo slideshows?

Hi Jim --
I recently helped a do-it-yourself client build an Ata site with Shopp plugin, but since the client sells "slightly adult" wear, I don't feel right sharing the URL in a public forum. PM me and I'll send you the link if you want to have a look at it.

I'm also in the midst of building two more Ata/Shopp sites -- Previous to Shopp, I spend more hours than I want to remember setting up WP-Ecommerce on multiple sites and then subsequently fighting all of it's bugs (and getting ZERO response/support from the developer despite being a Gold/paid upgrade user). Needless to say, I am anti wp-ecommerce at this point. I have also tried about 4 other ecommerce/wordpress integrations...

Ken Thomas
Try the plugin called "Flexi Pages" to allow yourself to put more than one page widget in sidebars. I also allows you to control which pages/subpages appear in any given widget area.

Happy WordPressing!

Hey Jim -

Hahaha, I can see why you might think that. We're mainly based out of Dallas, but one of our writers just moved to D.C. to get his masters in Political Science. Thanks for the kind words by the way, stick around on the blog for awhile, you might find some music that tickles your fancy as well. That was a shameless plug, but I just had to.

Travis

Hi everybody!
I've been using Atahualpa for a few months and I really love it. I just joined the forum, after a few weeks of coming here to just read some of the threads.
I am not an advanced user like many of you are, but I'm slowly working on some things and trying to tweak the template to give it its own personality. I have some other projects I'd like to develop using this template, so my first blog is also the field where I experiment with some things.

I'd love to receive your feedback, comments and suggestions. It's in Spanish and it's basically about robots, but also about all the things I like: tv shows, movies, comic books, etc.

http://www.supermegarobot.com

Thanks

Hi SuperMegaRobot
Welcome to the awesome world of the Atahualpa (and soon ThemeFrame too) theme!
I wanted to say that I quite like your cartoon robot image in your header, is it yours? If it is, then you might consider expanding on that graphic theme with similar or related images throughout your site. Just an idea!

Okay...since this is the thread to showcase (showoff just sounds too brazen!) what we have been able to accomplish design-wise with Atahualpa...so here goes!

I'm in the process of going into business locally with a new partner and our web design/seo/web marketing studio is called Good Web Karma...as of a marathon session today, I have a beta site using Ata for our new website at http://www.goodwebkarma.com. I've built over 20 sites for clients with Atahualpa (some more custom than others, which I'll collate and showcase another day) but since this one was all mine, I played like a kid in a sandbox and in the process discovered a few little customization corners of the Ata interface that I hadn't poked around in previously. What fun!

The site is not completely done yet -- my partner and I are officially debuting Jan 1, 2010 -- the graphics/logo on there are just ones I threw together today in a hurry (I'm waiting to receive upgraded graphics with more depth and excitement from a local graphic artist) so there is bound to be more changes and improvements between now and then, but I'd love to hear some feedback if anyone feels inclined to put in their two cents!

TIA!

I have been working on my second site using this theme and have been really enjoying the modification. Great theme.

The new site is The Gulf Islands Guide which shows off this beautiful area in western Canada. Would love to hear some feedback as I fine tune the site and add additional content.

Thanks

Hey there Kevin...
Your website topic is all about my home digs!! I grew up partly Victoria, and partly Hornby Island :0)
I noticed you feature vacation homes on your site...any chance you'd list my sister's cabin? http://jillscabana.com (not an Atahualpa site...yet!!!)

Hello everyone,

I would like to showcase how I've integrated Atahualpa with a forum system on one of the many sites I've built with this wonderful theme. I don't recall anyone else in this thread featuring Atahualpa as part of a forum-centered website, so I figured I would post.

Rather than make do with a limiting, standard-forum front page, I decided to extend my options with a blog front end driven by Atahualpa and Wordpress.

In the left sidebar I've used an RSS feed to show the most recent forum topics and input on the site from our members has been positive. :)

http://gaycarfans.com/

Well I like the idea of showing off and I think Atahualpa is THE PERFECT WordPress Theme!

It's so incredibly flexible!

I've been able to perform every customization that I've wanted too.
The next thing I'm going to customize is my page bar to make it more graphically interesting.

Here's my Atahualpa themed website: Aim It Media

Let me know what everyone thinks.

how did you get the lightbox/shadowbox working with this theme?
Thanks much.

Different lightbox, shadowbox, highslide plugins can interfere with one another but something I have missed at times is not have the link set on the photo or picture.

What lightbox are you trying to use?

Home Inspection and Green Building.

The Green Building Inspector - www.greenbuildinginspector.com

eregyrater... You have some spurious code at the top of your page.

If you're asking me, I used the NextGen Gallery plugin:
http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/nextgen-gallery/

I test all my sites in various browsers (since I do web design) and everything works fine for me.

A client wanted a site for her international women's rights group. High visibility, especially during the next UN General Assembly. I was flattered that they came to me (I'm a friend of one of their board members). Of course, I had to do the site in WP and Atahualpa. It turned out well, and is still being built: http://anglicanwomensempowerment.org/

They didn't want anything too hip or flashy, and I'm working under some constraints (they don't have good photos, for the most part, and there isn't much new content at the moment). I had to pull everything from an old sub-site of the Episcopal Diocese of NY site. I'm just starting to train one of their NY members to be the webmaster, and that's a whole 'nother issue! WP seems easy to us, but it's a challenge for non-tech people.

Thank you again, Flynn, for this marvelously malleable theme.

I still love this theme! I'm using it for 9 months now and it's a kind of "playground" for me... everytime I create a new layout with this theme (4-5 times a year) it looks different. This time my weblog looks completely different, but it's still the Atahualpa theme.... ;)

http://www.wildangelone.nl

Keep on that good work Flynn! :)

Thanks for your feedback, WordPressZen.
Yes, that cartoon image is/was mine, but now I've recently updated with others that I did in photoshop using some textures and brushes.
Thanks for the idea about expanding the same graphic theme through my site. I'll definitely consider it!

What I'm trying to do right now is decide the ideal width for the site, and at the same time the width for the center/main column and the right column, since I think I'll get rid of the left column (I feel like it's just using space and I could put all that on the right side). I'm taking a look at the other sites that members are posting here, to have a better idea on what to do (most of my visitors have at least a resolution of 1024px.)

Take a look at my new Atahualpa site. I still have to update some of the internal Post/Pages formating to the new type but take a look. I am still tweaking the HTML/CSS Inserts.

I would appreciate any and all comments. http://hopefaithprayer.com/

Thanks, Rex

I am using Atahualpa 3.4.4 in our I-Café Pilipinas website. I added Server Forum 1.3 and it serves our simple need for an integrated discussion board.

Hey ShepherdJim. I am a Shepherd too! Your sheep are lovely. We have American Southdowns.
Here is my site - it's not very customized.

This is by far my favorite theme. I am using it to build one for another farmer in the area, and I plan to customize that one more. She won't have 12 years of content like I did, so it's going to be simple. She also needs some very simple e-commerce since she just has a few products and doesn't have need for a merchant account yet. I am thinking simple PayPal buttons might be the way to go, judging from what I have read here.

Hi,
Atahualpa is wunderfull.
Here is my Blog
Fleur

Our Site

Atahualpa is simply awesome, no question.

We've had virtually no experience in building a site or blog, but the vast amount of user-friendly options and explanations available in the theme made the job very workable for beginners like us. We can confidently say that we wouldn't have been able to do a fraction of the things we were able to do with Atahualpa if we were using another theme, given our limited prior knowledge.

Thanks to Flynn and everyone else for their support.

Cheers.

Hey EdZee! Mighty fine site! I visited especially to see how the forum was set up and was VERY SURPRISED at how smoothly it's integrated into the Ata theme! Nice job! :)

I like your implementation of Ata a lot! My only suggestion would be to have an "About" page where you introduce yourselves. I find I always enjoy a site more, and feel more "loyalty" to it, if the author has a face.

re the e-commerce: I see you've already discovered the new eCommerce & Atahualpa Forum area that Flynn's given us.

The PayPal buttons really are a good way to get into the whole "shopping cart thing" in a small way. The PP buttons will be especially appropriate for your neighbor if he or she isn't too interested in doing much "under the cover" work in the Dashboard and some shopping cart plugin.

Thanks, Jim! I appreciated your blog comments, too. I did that one quite a while ago before I got on this forum. My new project takes advantages of more bells and whistles - it's looking really cool and I can't wait to share it!

At another boardie's suggestion I installed the Simple PP plugin and the post snippets. I think today is going to be the day I try to break it. I'll see everyone over on the e-commerce part of the forum later. ;)

Hi, I really like your site.

Could you tell me how you did the menus?

I've tried following steps on the forums and nothing seems to work for me.

The Page & Category menus are the only things I don't like and can't figure out how to change correctly in Atahualpa.

Thanks in advance for any help.

Merry Christmas and Happy New Year.

Thanks, that was slideshow pro from http://slideshowpro.net/

I use the Lightroom version as the standalone version is a little long winded to set up - too many steps. With the LR version you can store your different slideshow types as presets so it's pretty easy to set up.

HTH

Simon www.hyde-end.com