Blue Three Column Template

Thursday, December 8. 2005

Blue Theme Screenshot
A new theme designed for Serendipity, the column order has been changed so that left and center columns are switched. I'm releasing this theme basically as 'do what you want with it', so feel free to mangle it or beautify it. Download carl_blue.zip now.
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Bubblegum Theme ScreenshotAnother day, another theme. I've go to say I'm really enjoying working on themes for serendipity blog, and this one was no different. It started as a few modifications to the 'Carl Blue' theme, then as user requests started comin
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  1. Judebert said,

    Friday, December 9. 2005 at 04:03 (Reply)

    Nice job. Are the columns moved through CSS or Smarty?

  2. Carl said,

    Friday, December 9. 2005 at 14:22 (Reply)

    Thank you, they're moved in the index.tpl file. This file was taken from the default theme that ships with Serendipity. Being new to the world of Serendipity I haven't worked out all the different design options yet but I plan to convert this theme to table-less design soon.

  3. Joerg said,

    Tuesday, December 13. 2005 at 21:02 (Reply)

    Carl, this looks great!

    I think I'll switch to your theme soon.

    So far I have been using the default theme. Everything that works on the default theme, should work in your theme as well, right?

    The freetag plugin, for example, should work as well, right?


    I love the way you present your bookmarks. How did you do that? I have not seen this as a S9Y plugin. Could you commit this to the CVS repository?

  4. Carl said,

    Tuesday, December 13. 2005 at 21:56 (Reply)

    Hi Joerg,

    Being completely honest with you I didn't even know that some of the plugins use their own styles, so I haven't tested these themes with the freetag plugin. I actually don't know how to use it. I will happily fix the theme if it doesn't work with this plugin. Give me 24 hours and I'll email you direct to let you know. If I have to fix anything I'll immediately update the zip file.

  5. Carl said,

    Tuesday, December 13. 2005 at 22:27 (Reply)

    What do you know, I've just tested the freetag plugin on my test server, and it works, but the colors are a bit ugly. I will fix this today and repost within 24 hours.

  6. Joerg said,

    Tuesday, December 13. 2005 at 22:42 (Reply)

    Great!

    Take your time. I won't be able to change our layout so soon anyway.

    I got two more observations on your template:
    a) I find the font size in the published comments and especially in this add-comment-box I am typing in right now, pretty small and hard to read.

    b) I find it a bit difficult to see, which comments are from whom. There is so little space between the line that mentions name of the commenter, his homepage and the date and between the line of the next comment. Perhaps a horizontal line between two comments would make it easier to see to differentiate between the comments.

  7. Joerg said,

    Tuesday, December 13. 2005 at 22:50 (Reply)

    Hm, I guess, I have not explained myself very well in b)

    What I mean is:

    You wrote to Judebert "Thank you, they're moved in the..."

    This line of text is just below the info about Judebert:
    "#1 Judebert (Link) on 2005-12-08 21:03 (Reply)"

    Someone who is not very familiar with blogs might think that Judebert wrote "Thank you, they..."...

    Perhaps a horizontal line between Judebert and your comment would help. Or at least some more space between them...

    This is just a minor thing. I really like your theme.


    The bookmark threat is great as well. The one where you have to click on a folder to open it up. Is that a plugin?

  8. Carl said,

    Wednesday, December 14. 2005 at 02:49 (Reply)

    Hi Joerg,

    Once again thank you. I was wanting to do something with the comments area, and what you suggest is probably the most sensible approach. The way its configured right now came from the MT3 Independence theme - I used it to start the theme off.

    Also, I have updated the stylesheet to include freetag styles. I'll be adding some tags to my own entries so you can see how this workd. Your own website really showed me why its a problem, those fonts look way to big.

    Also, sorry about not answering the blogroll question, its a standard plugin I got from Spartacus. Its called Link List 1.6 and is under Frontend: External Services
    Plugin. Hope that helps.

    Cheers
    Carl

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