Whenever we develop a new site using WordPress, we like to use a framework as a blank canvas for customization.

While Thematic, our WordPress framework of choice, has performed admirably for us, it hasn’t been well documented or supported over the past year and we’re concerned it may not hold up heading into the future.

We’re going to dabble with using the brand-new, very slick, HTML-5 friendly Twenty Eleven theme as our framework for a few upcoming projects and see how it goes. The theme has a lot of built in options, support for new post types and feels like a more current starting point that Thematic.