Ladder is test number 5 – some good features, but overall does not give us what we need.
Here is a brief resumé:

– Front page has a large slider which shows featured images – or can be replaced by a video. The video is dimmed.
– The entry page is a full page (square)
– The top logo and menu gives a quite small logo
– All pages can have a photo background (full page in a white border) – the images are dimmed.
– Pages can have items / text / etc floating and scrolling over the dimmed photo – quite nice.
– Each page title has an orange arrow head before it (I imagine that could be removed by CSS script)

PAGES:
– slideshow is ok but standard (small)
– Portfiolios display on a very smart image grid (and especially so as there can be a dimmed image below them).

PAGE TYPES:
– DEFAULT
– PORTFOLIO
– WIDGET-ONLY “FRONT PAGE” – interesting concept, not seen son far elsewhere.
(Full page, square with white border)

GOOD:
This “static” font page design can be used for any page.

NOT GOOD:
Display of videos on most pages is “weird” – it gives a big square within which the 16×9 video is placed leaving a wide margin top and bottom used for the usually in-frame data and controls from YouTube. It looks terrible!