Made - Responsive ReviewMagazine Site Template

Made - Responsive Review/Magazine Site Template

Designed to create customized review mini-sites with four rating methods and extensive layouts, it scales from personal blogs to large content sites. It combines responsive design, multiple widgets, and a rich feature set to present reviews or non-review content effectively.

Four rating methods

• Numbers between 0 and 10 (with increments of 0.1)
• Percentages between 0 and 100 (with increments of 1)
• Letter grades from A+ to F (with pluses + and minuses - for each letter grade)
• Stars from 0 to 5 (with half-star increments) with 5 color options: Yellow, Orange, Red, Green, Blue

Topics and use cases

• Laptops, Smart Phones, Tablets, and Audio/Video products
• Movies, Music, and Video Games
• Restaurants, Beer, and Wine
• Fashion Trends and Clothing
• Travel Destinations and Vacation Getaways
• Automobiles
• Books, Magazines, Web Sites, and Comics
• Casinos, Pinball Machines, Ice Cream, Puppies, WordPress Review Themes…Anything you want.

Who this works for

• Works for all kinds of sites
• From non-review personal blogs to huge content heavy sites like CNET and Good Magazine

Design, responsiveness, and performance

• Responsive design scales from HD to mobile and looks great on all devices
• PHP and HTML versions both included with your download
• Optimized, minified, compressed, validated, spaced/indented/commented code, and architected intuitively

Support and longevity

• 5-star customer support and active theme development means Made will be relevant for a long time to come

Designed for review or non-review mini-sites

• Designed for review or non-review mini-sites so you can present your content however you want

Visual and rating enhancements

• Review Overview box (descriptive summary text about the review)
• Unique animations for each of the 4 types of ratings (stars, numbers, percentages, letter grades)
• Pre-defined color ranges for ratings add visual cues to how good a particular rating is, just like how MetaCritic works

Layout options

• 6 unique layouts available for each mini-site’s front page and category archive pages:
  • 2 panel grid with sidebar
  • Vertical post listing with sidebar
  • 3 panel grid with sidebar
  • 3 panel full-width grid
  • 4 panel full-width grid
• Review Directory listing pages – 2 different layouts

Styles, elements, and widgets

• 80 pre-defined CSS formatting elements
• 10 custom-designed sidebar widgets:
  • 2×2 ad block
  • Email subscribe form
  • Flickr feed
  • Latest tweets
  • Page & Archive tabs
  • Post & Comment tabs
  • Latest Reviews
  • Latest Review tabs (from multiple review types)
  • Review Category tabs
• Unwrapped text/HTML
• 2 drop-down menus, each styled 3 levels deep, and 2 other menus in addition
• Slick
• About The Author and jQuery tabbed Related Posts panel under each post/review
• jCarousel “latest” slider at the top of all pages
• jCarousel “spotlight” slider under the featured slider on the front-page
• jCarousel “article” slider under the “spotlight” slider on the front page with arrow navigation, as well as just above the footer on all other pages
• jQuery Mosaic effect applied to posts in the jCarousel “latest” slider
• jCarousel slider CSS formatted element so you can put content sliders with unlimited panels directly in the post/page content
• Tabs (shortcodes, widgets, related articles panel)
• Nivo slider
• jCarouselLite slider
• Image icon darken mouseover effect
• Button darken mouseover effect
• Rating animations
• Superfish menus
• Box toggles (shortcodes)

Colors, fonts, and visuals

• Color pickers (review options, demo options)
• Easing (applies to any element that animates)
• Colorbox image lightboxes
• 28 included transparent background textures which can be combined with any color
• 61 included background images (or upload your own)
• @font-face fonts (not Cufon)

Code quality and compatibility

• Optimized javascript, CSS, and images
• Layered PNGs and PSDs included
• Intuitive, indented, spaced, and commented code
• Valid XHTML
• Compatible with all major browsers (including IE8+)
• Compressed and uncompressed versions of javascript files included

Documentation, support, and extras

• Awesome documentation included
• Support Forum that is monitored 7 days a week

Additional notes and capabilities

• Reviews are not required
• Made works great as a non-review blog too (or mix-n-match)
• Random article button – a sweet little treat to give your site that extra professional touch
• Included, fixed Share Panel that floats your social media buttons to the left of your main content
• Author listing page template shows all of your contributors in a beautiful 2 panel grid layout
• 404 page nicely styled with instructions and a search box
• 3 unique layout options to choose from for home page, review mini-sites, and category archive pages
• Nivo jQuery “featured” slider with thumbnails on front page and all the post listing layout pages