iNove theme from mg12: Pros and Cons
March 29th, 2009
As you can see I am using the iNove theme offered free by mg12. I have spent about an hour this weekend to tweak and set it up to my liking and overall it is a great theme. The look and feel of this theme is awesome, clean, and easy to read. While playing with it over the weekend I did find some room for improvement. I am going to limit my pros/cons to max 5 for each and please remember this list is provided with constructive intentions only. So here is a short pros/cons list for the iNove theme:
iNove theme Pros
- Clean look & feel.
- Allows for custom meta tags, google search, notices, rss feed, and email feed.
- Neat usage of icons.
- Well balanced main content area versus sidebar.
- Fantastic set of default hard-coded widget set for the sidebar.
iNove theme Cons
- Not using the wordpress widgets engine, hence it is difficult to edit and tweak. In some cases will require editing theme files.
- Scalability and performance is impacted due to the large number of css and javascript files. Using local jQuery file instead of the google hosted one.
- Not using CSS sprites while having a classic example of one such possible usage (icons).
- Javascript files are not minified.
- Some external plugins are required for all the functinoality to work.
Overall, it is a thumbs up for anyone who is considering this great theme. However, like everything else, there is always room for improvement.
