StudioPress is happy to announce the release of the Balance 1.0 child theme. This WordPress theme works on the Genesis Framework and can be downloaded by Pro Plus members in the support forum. All others can purchase the package here.
Mobile Responsive Design
The Balance theme is the third theme released here at StudioPress which has been developed to be mobile responsive in design. View all responsive WordPress themes.
Click here to see how the Balance theme looks across mobile devices.
Theme Features
The Balance theme includes the following features: 3 layout options, 5 theme colors (blue, green, pink, red and turquoise), custom background, featured images, footer widgets, landing page template, mobile responsive design, portfolio page template and threaded comments.
Screenshot of the Balance Theme
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Awesome theme again! Thanx to Brian and Rafal and the whole team for this one! Will become the foundation for my new personal site at deckerweb.de in the next weeks
Thanks!
I’m going to use it for my own blog too
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Sorry – try now, was a temporary glitch.
Awesome looking theme once again.
Looks very nice!! Thanks!!
Can an image slider be easily added to this skin?
The featured home left section is a widget area, so yes – you could implement one there if you wanted. (might require some styling.)
Oooo I love the simplicity of it. i use eleven40 but i’m tempted to switch. But then i’m tempted every time you release a new theme. Good work as usual.
AMAZING! So excited for this one!
What ^ said.
Does the landing page have the menu bar/background graphic across the top if breadcrumbs are disabled?
Thanks for pointing that out – forgot to update the landing page template on our demo which is now fixed. Yes, the landing page disables the breadcrumbs by default.
Oh, that is truly nice.
That’s pretty much my response every time I see a design concept from Rafal.
Outstanding looking theme! I love this one! One of the sexiest blog theme at the moment!
The problem with you guys is that you confuse people: make them to change the blog layout as you release new themes. Keep confusing us.
Heh – I hear ya Bob. Every time Rafal comes up with a new design, I want to use it and change my own blog design.
Looks nice and a pretty good theme to promote any brand easily and helps you to increase sales in no time..
Great looking. Cannot see if the Home Page is widgetised.
Cannot wait for Lifestyle mobile responsive to come out…..
The top section of the homepage (intro and the email signup box) are widgetized. Below that is the standard Genesis Grid Loop.
Awesome theme, minimalistic and crisp!
At the risk of sounding repetitive, this theme looks awesome! Can’t wait to dig into it. Thanks Brian!
It’s ok – we don’t mind when folks sound repetitive.
Looks oh so simple when it’s in front of you!
Proportion, fonts, colours all come together to make a theme that looks this good.
That’s why I leave it to you boys.
Another understated stunner.
Glad to hear that our efforts to focus on typography, et all aren’t going unnoticed.
Very nice as always.
Any chance we’ll see a small business type responsive theme soon? You have released a long string of blog-type themes in a row.
Please?
Your request is duly noted
We’ve got lots and lots of themes in the works, and I think you’ll be pleased with some of the soon-to-be-released ones.
Be nice if themes could be blog or business type.
Most of my clients are looking for business type sites.
Thanks so much, Rebecca! That’s very good news. I’m in the same situation as Keith – my clients are small businesses.
Two words: Suh-weet!
I believe that’s one word, albeit hyphenated.
I’m happy that you seem to go for “Mobile Responsive”. It really looks like this is the direction things are heading in webdesign now. I also love that you use W3C compliant code, even though there’ll inevitably show up problems in additions like forms and plugins.
Just a very very tiny complaint. The new “See pricing and buy theme” at the bottom seems okay, if I could just only opt it out someway to get a full preview by clicking a button. At present, I actually have to install it to see it?! (which I of course will be doing soon on one of my sites).
But anyway, I’m just like a kid on Christmas Eve who can’t wait for another second to unwrap the gift – and this gift was unexpectedly soon:-)
Clean and with a portfolio page this what I was looking for, thank you very much!
Missed the portfolio page.
Thanks for mentioning.
Truly an awesome theme. Love the portfolio page.
Thanks
Mike
I really love this theme and with the portfolio page, this going to be popular.
@Brian Gardner
Well designed mobile responsive theme! The layout gives amazing look for professionals.
Thank Brian and Rafal for this lovely mobile responsive them.
I have one question if I am going to switch to the responsive them, do all the images will be re-sized by the CSS?
Could you explain how the different size of image could be switch from one to another? I notice that we use the same image.
Thank for your confirmation.
Yes, the images are resized only by CSS.
Thank you for your response. I will use it for my personal blog soon.
Loved this theme, thanx to Brian and Rafal for creating such a nice theme.
Just switched over to Balance child theme. I am so impressed with this one. It is such a treat to visit on a regular basis to be surprised by a new child theme and a StudioPress site revamp! It kicks!
I like the colors & the fact that it’s responsive. I also love that you’ve added 5 types of page templates (landing page & portfolio being my favorite two).
There are a couple of things I wonder, though, which keep me from using the theme (I would have to take extra time to change the css). I’m not trying to complain about it. Just giving a little constructive opinion.
1) Wondering why the headline & paragraph text are both serif. I’m not an expert in typography by any means, but I thought the rule of thumb was to mix serif & san serif between the two. A personal preference is to have a san serif headline.
2) Wondering why there is so much white space at the top of the fold. The breadcrumbs, especially, push down the content dramatically. I notice at studiopress.com & copyblogger.com, there’s a lot of care taken to prevent this, which are great examples to learn from.
I always look forward to your new themes, especially that we are in the times of Responsive Design. I also notice a shift towards a direct response type of layouts, which earns a whole lot of points with me. Thank you!
Hey Eve,
thank you for your comments!
1) We wanted to make more classic look like the real newspaper is (both headings and paragraph are serif fonts). The font in the sidebar is smaller and sans-serif what should make your post content more prominent. If you change the content font to sans-serif, the theme will lose this “balance”.
2) I agree with this. There is a bit too much space above the breadcrumbs. We can fix this in CSS.
Thanks!
…OK, so you have a new responsive theme…Great…!
But what happened to the new Agency Theme promised back in early December?
…and its attendant integration with the Woocommerce plugin…
?
Pardon me, but I just had to ask.
That one is still under way – one issue when integrating a 3rd-party product is the fact that things are no longer dependent upon just our workflow.
We really will get to it, though!
Hi Rebecca
“…things are no longer dependent upon just our workflow. ”
I can understand that.
Holding a few jobs back for the new Agency theme.
I’ll keep checking the blog.
OK Rebecca, Thanks for the reply…
Another gorgeous child theme. Genesis is really racking up some nice designs lately, keep up the good work.
Hello Rafal,
Thank you for your reply. I don’t quite understand the disruption of balance if the headline were to change to san serif. I guess I will have to make the change in my css to get the visual.
On point #2, are you saying that your development team will change the CSS so that everyone can have this? Or, are you hinting that I should change the CSS on my own?
I look forward to your clarification.
Best,
Eve
Eve,
you can change the headlines to sans-serif and I’m sure it’ll still look good. My idea for this theme is to keep serif fonts in the main content and sans-serif in the sidebar.
We’ve already updated the CSS in the theme code.
Thanks!
gosh darn it — i’ve had my sites redesign in the works for over 6 months (so hard to find time to design for your own business when you are in the business of designing for others…
And now I’m torn… Do I start over with this? Because this is all sorts of awesome, functionality wise…
What to do… What to do…
I’ve been wanting to revamp my design business site/portfolio onto WordPress, but never found quite the right theme. Balance is PERFECT. Just purchased, I can’t wait to customize it and see my new portfolio!
Yours are the only premium themes I buy, for myself or for clients. I love StudioPress!
Danielle – great to hear, and thanks so much. Always enjoy hearing positive feedback and that folks exclusively use or products.
Hello Rafal,
Sorry it took me a while to check this. I do not see a change in the theme code. Can you let me know what was changed, and I’d be happy to change it on my version.
Thank you,
Eve
Eve,
you can edit your CSS and change in #header:
min-height: 135px;
That’s all you have to do to reduce the header height. Hope this helps
What gives? I’m really surprised that when I visit the studiopress site on my iPhone, I can’t see a demo of any themes. I can understand not bothering to demo any of the older themes that aren’t mobile optimized. But at least I expect to be able to check out the newer ones that you say are mobile responsive. It would make a huge difference in my purchasing decision. See I’ve been burned before, buying a theme that was suppose to be mobile friendly… don’t want it to happen again.
Sorry about that – refresh a theme page and you should see the demo link.
Wow. Absolutely amazing is all I can say. I’m talking about the mobile friendly themes and the fact that you responded within ten minutes on a Saturday night!
Great theme!
I begun the new design of my website (until now only on my testserver) with the “News Child Theme” but didn’t find a good way to implement my ideas (my draft was too cluttered).
So this weekend I decided to switch to the Balance Child Theme. Just some hours later I have a (responsive!) nice, simple and elegant website!
IMHO the best theme of Studiopress so far!
Hi, this theme looks very clean, I was wondering, if I purchase this child theme can I only use it on 1 domain? or may I use it on multiple domains? What about the other child themes can you buy 1 child theme and use it on multiple sites/domains? The reason I ask is because I wasn’t sure if it’s the Genesis framework that you can use on unlimited sites/domains or also the themes. If someone from the staff or Brian Gardner itself could reply it would be great as I would be assured of the answer.
Keep up the great work!
You may use Genesis and child themes on as many domains as you like.
More details here: http://www.studiopress.com/theme-faqs
Very nice work.
One thing I noticed is that if you have no widget in the “header-right” area, the page title will no longer be responsive because these styles are applied:
.header-full-width #title-area,
.header-full-width #title,
.header-full-width #title a {
width: 960px;
}
An easy fix for anyone who knows CSS but I just wanted to give a heads up for those people that do not. It is possible this is already in the comments but there are so many I did not have time to read through them all.
Great catch Justin, and no – this wasn’t accounted for in the comments. I’ll update the code in the zip file. Thanks for reporting this!
Ok, now I know why I cannot find my site title, thanks
I use the theme on my personal blog http://santelphin.com
but on my Samsung Galaxy S2, I didn’t see the logo text, can you help how to fix this?
Thanks
Now I know why, because there’s no widget in the header, after setting the menu, it works fine now. Thank
Brian – i wanted to buy this theme and already have the Genisis framework. I cant find the spot where i can buy the theme only?? It seems to have gone awol?
Cheers
Michael
Hey Michael – go back to the Balance theme page and do a hard refresh on your screen. The link should be directly below the purchase box.
That was quick
. Thanks Brian.
Got to compliment you guys. You really are producing beautiful themes.
Cheers
Michael
Thanks Michael – all design credit goes to Rafal, our lead designer.
Spot on there Michael.
I started out with Elegant Themes, took a look at Thesis and then found Genesis.
Think I picked the right framework with Genesis.
What caching plugin do you all use? Are there any known compatibility issues with W3 Total Cache? Thanks.
Hello there, I really love this theme! Is it possible change look of the homepage from magazine styling posts to the classic blog style?
Yes, it is possible, but you’d have to customize the home.php file and throw in some custom CSS as well.
Thank you for your answer – and is this customization included in your theme support?
Looks very good! Question (I browsed through the Q&A above but I think I got lost in the middle…:) I assume you can “link” this with your Aweber account for the opt-in box?
Thanks!
Yes you can – but you might need to adjust the CSS a bit since this is configured for Feedburner.
I like this theme and have been used it for my personal blog. I just have a very small issue about the logo view from the mobile.
I tested eleven40, and I see that we can actually center to logo on any device, it didn’t happen magically in Balance theme.
Is it possible to fix this small issue? My blog is http://www.santelphin.com
Thanks.