Friday, September 1. 2006
Its been a few days now since I started working on Hemingway, and the result is that I estimate I'm probably about 30% to completion. At this rate, I may be able to release the template sometime in the next 1-2 weeks. I've posted a couple of screenshots so you can see how parts of the site are coming together. The startpage is more or less complete, so is the detail page, and also the main overview pages. The sidebar items haven't been styled yet.
I added the white colorset yesterday, and it looks stunning, as you can see from these screenshots. I suspect that white will be the most popular colorset for Serendipity users.
You'll notice from the startpage screenshot that the latest entry is always displayed along with the list of recent entries. This is diffferent from the original WP version because I think it affects the usability of the template.
The single entry screenshot shows how different this template is from any other Serendipity theme. The entry footer is moved over to the left of the entry, and is rewritten to remove parts that aren't really needed, such as comments and trackbacks. The smarty code has been rewritten for comments and trackbacks, and the comment form is the same as the WP version. I hate the tables based version of the comment from, and this template adopts the exact same code as the WP version. Some of my other template also use a css only comment form based on a definition list, but Hemingway breaks from that and uses the regular form controls of input and label.
