Templates, custom work, and modified themes

A few days ago I finally got round to releasing the andreas09 template for Serendipity. Its been added to Spartacus for anyone who wants to try it out. Andreas09 is one of the most attractive designs produced by Andreas Viklund, a good friend who's been really supportive of my ports of his templates. This is one of those templates you see scattered all over the web because it has such universal appeal. Small business users will love it. The Serendipity version includes all of Andreas' original colorsets, and I'm sharing the credit for this one with Bex whose Bex02 template formed the base code.

On another note, I'm really pleased to provide a link to comopti.com, a website owned by Peter Spörrer who requested some custom work from me a while ago and whose site now looks like it has gone live. Looking at Peter's site you might be forgiven for thinking his site is a regular HTML site, but in fact is created using Serendipity, the Static pages plugin, and a customised contact form.

Do you remember the Hemingway template I worked on a while back? It seems Hippo from the Serendipity forums liked the code so much he's heavily customised the template for his own 'Go-Hip' blog. I'm really impressed with what he's done, now if only I can convince him to do up some artwork for me :-). Watch his space, I'm sure great things are going to happen there sooner or later.

Finally, before I wrap up, Matthias was working on some code which is added to his latest template, YAML, that allows users to automagically configure the number of navbar links to display on their Serendipity template. I have been so impressed with this code that I've updated andreas09, andreas06, andreas08, 1024px, be nice, ceejay01, soccer2006, and softened cells to incorporate his code. This is probably one of the most welcome additions to templating for a long time and if you haven't tried it, go ahead and download one of the above mentioned templates and see for yourself how easy it is to use.