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Another new theme

Posted by Rikki, 25 April 2008 · 52 views

Today I spent some time creating a theme for my blog here, mostly because I wanted to, but also to see what could be done.

I'm pretty happy with what I have now. Theming could certainly be pushed further than I've done - probably much further. The only 'complicated' part of mine was I used the > combinator to selectively hide the header image, turn the link into a block and set my own background image, the one you see up top; you can see my CSS for the exact code to do it.

I'm going to keep this theme for my own blog right now, so I don't think it'll be one shipped with Blog or added to the resource site. I do plan to work on a couple though that will be distributed via one of those routes.

Let me know what you think

CoderX
Apr 25 2008 06:48 PM

wow awesome theme!

China J
Apr 25 2008 08:23 PM

Nice! Can you pm me a exported copy or send me your css? Thanks

China J
Apr 25 2008 09:46 PM

Lol you didn't reply. I only asked jokingly because of what you wrote in your entry

Don't take me serious in this case.

joelle
Apr 26 2008 12:53 AM

I love your theme design. But I love also the idea of ajax adjustable column widths.

Tom T
Apr 26 2008 01:31 AM

Very nice theme Rikki.

ianhoyle
May 05 2008 09:16 PM

I've been complaining for a long while about the "blockiness" of the existing IP.Blog skins.

I *love* this!

Ian

mmmecn
May 07 2008 11:14 AM

nicely done bro ,but whats the changes for 1.4.0 blog ??

CharlesC
May 14 2008 07:28 PM

Reminds me of the original screen-shots of Nexus a while back, fantastic.

Yuz Asaf
May 21 2008 12:15 AM

Would this theme be available for download later on?

ichadwick
May 22 2008 07:19 AM

Great - but HOW can WE do something like this? There are no clear instructions in the ACP, no WYSIWYG tools, no colour picker, no list of elements that might be affected or changed, no direction or help at all... if I change the CSS file in the ACP, it changes the entire board. But I don't want that. How do I change the blog without affecting the rest of my board at the same time? And where is the ACP panel or page for changing the blog CSS? Very frustrating.

Can you please upload this another themes into the resources so we can at least see what you did and figure out what we need to do to get there ourselves?