Continuum - Magazine HTML Theme

Key features and design philosophy

Designed by a seasoned blogger, Continuum emphasizes a robust, professional grid-based article layout with multiple variations, strong visual appeal, and flexible customization. It aims to provide a comprehensive toolkit for editorial sites while remaining adaptable to a range of project types.

• 4 unique variations of a grid-based article layout for flexible post presentation.
• 100% valid XHTML with intuitive, clean, indented, spaced, and well-commented code.
• JQuery-enhanced experience with 5 content sliders and 3 unique featured slider variations.

Core usage and target audiences

Continuum is great for Magazine & News blogs, Gaming sites, Movie & Music review blogs, product review sites like Cnet.com, portfolio sites, personal blogs, and book review blogs. It’s engineered for professionals yet crafted for up-and-coming creators, making it suitable for a wide range of content-driven websites.

Built-for-Reviews framework

The theme includes a unique grid-based review layout framework with 5 review types, each with a custom icon. Ratings can be delivered using stars, hearts, or a mix of both. The available review types are:

• Movies
• Music
• Video Games
• Books
• Products
• ...or create your own, the framework is there!

Page layouts

Continuum ships with a broad selection of page templates to cover many site needs. The 16 page layouts include:

• Front page layout A – 3-wide grid layout
• Front page layout B – 2-wide grid layout + sidebar
• Front page layout C – vertical post layout + sidebar
• Front page layout D – latest from each category + sidebar
• Contributors – vertical contributor layout + sidebar
• Search results page layout
• Reviews layout – reviews listed in a 3-wide grid layout
• Standard page layout – page content on the left + sidebar
• Full-width page layout – page content full-width with no sidebar
• Single post page – detail page for a post or article
• Single review page – detail page for a review
• Archive layout A – 3-wide grid layout
• Archive layout B – 2-wide grid layout + sidebar
• Archive layout C – vertical post layout + sidebar
• Archive layout D – latest from each category + sidebar
• 404 page

JQuery enhancements

Continuum is jQuery-enhanced throughout, featuring:

• Fancy tooltips
• Cufon font replacement
• Superfish menu dropdowns
• Sexy magnifying glass image hovers
• Full colorbox (photo lightbox) integration

Sliders and dynamic content

The theme includes 5 distinct jQuery sliders to showcase posts and media, plus other dynamic components:

• Breaking post/article/content slider at the very top of the page
• Spotlight slider A – post content above a series of thumbnails which navigate between posts
• Spotlight slider B – leverages the Nivo slider to display article images with captions overlayed
• Spotlight slider C – article image + overlayed caption on the left, vertically-stacked thumbnails on the right
• Recent Reactions scroller – vertically scrolls snippets of content to the right of the spotlight slider

CSS and visual elements

There are 70 Built-In CSS Styled Elements, providing a wealth of shortcode-like options, including:

• Blockquotes
• Floating pullquotes
• Fancy buttons (14 colors)
• Content columns
• jQuery toggles
• jQuery tabs
• Dividers
• Code
• Fancy lists (9 options)
• and more

Color schemes are flexible with 6 color skins and 28 pre-selected matching backgrounds.

Documentation and quick setup

Awesome Documentation is included, with a “Quick Settings” guide in the Continuum help file that gives quick and minimal instructions to get you setup in no time.

Advertising and monetization spaces

Continuum provides lots of places to put Ads, making it easy to monetize a magazine or news site without cluttering the user experience.

Browser support and compatibility

Great Browser Support – the only browser that Continuum does not work in is IE6. Every other browser on the market can handle Continuum (with a couple little caveats explained in the documentation).

Note: while Continuum looks and functions correctly in IE7, it does run slowly (mainly just the homepage) in IE7.

Social and author features

• Social Media – native social media support for sharing posts, pages, and reviews via Twitter, Facebook, Digg, StumbleUpon, Google Buzz, and E-mail. Pre-styled sections included to display your Flickr feed and Latest Tweets as well.
• Author Info – single post and review pages have a nice author info section at the bottom of the content.

Comments and community engagement

Awesome Comments – nested, paged, gravatar-ed, stylish comments. There is even a unique sidebar for the comments area.

Extras and developer friendliness

• Random Article Button – a sweet little treat to give your site that extra professional touch.
• Intuitive Code – if you’re the type of person who likes to get under the hood and tinker with the code, you’ll be delighted to see that the code is indented, spaced, and commented thoroughly.
• Layered PNGs and PSDs Included

Support and resources

For support, please visit this link: Support