David Joshua of indafrance.com has converted our Minimalia WordPress theme into a pure French version, downloadable with French instructions- the whole nine yards. You can also leave comments on his site in french and receive some support that way.

While internationalization is something we’re natively building into all our plugins and themes, it’s nice to have the opportunity to have others work on carrying our GPL work forward in other languages.

So for those of you looking for some native support on the French side of things, visit his site for more information, or download his package of the theme here.

Minimalia is a free WordPress theme that was born originally as a website design for matthewgood.org. We haven’t updated it in a little while, but will do so soon.

Welcome – if you’ve been here before, then you know what a facelift this is- and if you’re arriving for the first time, we hope you dig the digs. We’ve got lots of things planned for the OpenSource community and much, much more. So stay hard-wired into our RSS Feeds for updates on what’s getting you hot and bothered about BraveNewCode.

WHAT IS THIS PLACE?

In short, we’re a design and development studio that has been focused on WordPress custom themes, plugins, media integration and mobile support. But we’re much more than that, and are broadening our horizons everyday.

We’re interested in all kinds of web-based projects, and if you’re looking to have some web-work done, visit our work-process page, or hit up our quote form to deliver your web-based hopes and dreams to our inbox. Of course, check out our portfolio first to see what we’re getting on about.

WPTOUCH: WORDPRESS IPHONIFIED

Coniciding with our re-launch is the public release of our free, GPL-licensed WordPress plugin+theme WPtouch which will make your blog or website look extrordinarily gorgeous when viewed on an iPhone or iPod touch.

We looked at the currently existing options for WordPress on the iPhone/iPod touch, and did what we could to improve upon them, building what we think is the perfect blend of a full-featured, application-like experience with customization options rolled into one lightweight, speedy little 331kb package!

We’ve also got a whack of other WordPress plugins that are useful in a wide variety of ways, like using Blip.tv video on your site, Flickr galleries in posts, accurate related entries listings, and more. Check out our Downloadables page for a listing.

I’ve been writing an extensive post on the process of re-designing the website, which will be up here soon, and includes some crazy screenshots of the very different things we tried before settling on whitespace and vines.

Again, thanks for visiting, and we hope to entertain you with unparalleled WordPress wizardry and thoughtful penmanship about all things code going forward.

In the next few weeks, we’ll be releasing Minimalia, a single-column WordPress theme. Minimalia is an adaptation of this former theme from matthewgood.org.

The theme runs on WordPress 2.0+, and will be fully supported here at BraveNewCode. Once the final touches are complete, the public release will include the theme files, a full installation Read Me, and a demo site for those looking to test drive.

Some features of Minimalia include:

• Clean, cross-browser & platform compliant
• Unique, elegant design, which is easily adapted and scalable
• Built-in Ajax comments, as well as Script.aculo.us effects
• Built-in support for FlickrRSS, Gravatars, Category Cloud, and Stimuli’s Flickr Gallery plugins
• Custom Lightbox integration for both the Gallery and FlickRSS photos
• Cross-browser rounded search
• Fully customized and styled archive, category, search and 404 pages included

After many years of support from the WordPress community, both matthew and I feel indebted and hope that this theme pays some of that down.