Maelstrom - WordPress Theme

Maelstrom, the August 2011 release, illustrates the elegance of merging a complex style infrastructure, with a dynamic, and flexible feature set. Perfect for your portfolio or gallery site.

The theme features animated header background images, configurable to be cross-fading or scrolling, whether in the horizontal or vertical axises. This, in combination with the diverse number of widget variations, create a perfectly designed sandbox to develop a beautiful online presence.

FEATURES AND SCREENSHOTS:
Animated Background Images
New RokStories Layout
Scrolling Widget Rows
Gantry Framework
8 Preset Styles
Fusion with MegaMenu & Splitmenu
RocketTheme Plugins Styling
Custom Typography
Custom JS Form Styling
70 Widget Positions
31 Widget Variations - Over 250 Combinations
FF 3.6, Safari 4, Opera 10.x, IE7-IE8 Compatible
W3C XHTML 1.0 / CSS 3 Valid

ANIMATED HEADER BACKGROUND IMAGES:
Each Preset Style has an animated header, ranging from transition to scroll animation types:
Transition: Automatically cycle/rotate through a series of background images, as part of a sequence to create a moving animation.
Scrolling: A vertically/horizontally scrolling effect for the background image, simulating object movement and animation.
Configuration: Control type, speed and duration via the intuitive Gantry administrator.

OVER 250 WIDGET VARIATION COMBINATIONS:
Maelstrom has 31 inbuilt variations with 25 stylistic variations. These can be combined to create a diverse range of widget styles. The box, title, icon and button variations can be combined, such as box5 title5 icon2 button2. You can see how the widget style develops in the screenshot below:

SCROLLING WIDGET ROWS:
Stacked widgets placed to the Top, Showcase, Feature or Bottom Module rows will load this feature; this places stacked widgets inside a rotation element, triggered automatically or via arrows.