Top Features
1Color Chooser: An inbuilt Color Chooser is Crystalline’s most notable feature, simply activate the chooser from the frontend of the theme and customize the site’s styling, from simple text colors to graphic selection. You can save the customized styles from the frontend into the administrator with the Gantry Framework.
2Gantry Framework: A new framework / structure, that provides a more modern, efficient and cross-platform foundation for our themes. Features range from the intuitive and dynamic administrative interface, to the 960 grid system, full RTL support, inbuilt GZip compression and much more.
3Advanced Menu: Crystalline offers a powerful assortment of menus to choose from. Select from either: the Fusion Menu, a javascript / Mootools enhanced CSS dropdown menu system, SEO compatible and user friendly; and the versatile and flexible Splitmenu, a static sublevel based menu system (sublevels in the side column).
Core Template Features
Below is a list of the core template features which pertain to this release.
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RTL Support
RTL support from Gantry in its grid system, as well as RTL support in the Fusion menu, in conjunction with the template itself such as the breadcrumbs, content typography and widget styling. -
14 Widget Hilites
14 widget hilites to provide variations, color and/or structural, in your site for your widget based content, these are: bg1-5, title1-5, flush, flushtop, flushbottom & basic. -
Javascript Styling: Radios and Checkboxes
Additional styling for form elements, such as radios and checkboxes, for visual integration. -
IE6 Warning Message
A dropdown panel will appear in IE6, alerting the visitor to update their browser. This can be disabled in the template parameters. -
Content Typography
Customised typography, such as list styles and span notices, are included with this release. -
68 Widget Positions
The theme has over 68 widget positions which are collapsible. - Browser Compatibility
The theme is compatible with all the major and modern browsers: FF 3.5, Safari 4, Opera 10, IE7 & IE8. There is limited support for IE6 as it is restricted in numerous ways such as the forcing of the low detail level, LTR is automatically set regardless of RTL presence, Fusion is replaced by the Suckerfish menu, and various other elements are dropped or modified for basic compatibility.
RocketTheme Plugins
Below is a list of RocketTheme Plugins that have either been styled specifically for this theme release, or are showcased in this demo.
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RokBox Plugin
Javascript popup / litebox utility, can be used for images, links, videos, websites, PDFs and much more. -
RokAjaxSearch Widget
Ajax powered widget, allowing for interactive search of both local WordPress pages and the web with its Google integration. -
RokTabs Widget
Tabbed content widget, perfect for maximising content exposure without sacrificing on site real estate. Built-in Mootools effects. -
RokNavMenu
RokNavMenu is a foundational extension which is at the core of the inbuilt menu systems and is a requirement for the template menus to operate.