Carl --MT-Chalkboard Remake/Revision?

PerfectCr · Post by **PerfectCr** » Sat Jun 24, 2006 3:38 pm

Carl, I just want to say I love your themes. For my tastes (simply layout, 1 column, dark color, no graphics) I love the MT-Chalkboard theme. However I like your work and I am wondering if you have considered putting your own "spin" on this or similar "simple" one column type themes.

From reading your posts and blogs I see your focus has been on increasing functionality of themes, but sometimes simple is better

Thank you for your hard and time!

Oh, and I love the "1024px" theme. Would it be possible to move the sidebard over the right-hand side of the page and not the left?

carl_galloway · Post by **carl_galloway** » Sat Jun 24, 2006 8:33 pm

Hi,

on the subject of 1024px, yes you can change columns, simply open index.tpl and edit this line;

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<div id="{if $head_version < 1.1}content{/if}{if $template_option.contentposition == 'true'}content{elseif $template_option.contentposition == 'false'}contentalt{/if}">{$CONTENT}</div>

See the first 'content', just change that to 'contentalt'. Users of version 1.1 of Serendipity don't need to worry about this because column swapping is done from within 'Manage Styles' in the admin suite.

As for the MT series of templates, I could take a look at them but I'm not sure what I would do with them, they are actually very well designed. Any thoughts?

PerfectCr · Post by **PerfectCr** » Sat Jun 24, 2006 10:16 pm

carl_galloway wrote:Hi,

on the subject of 1024px, yes you can change columns, simply open index.tpl and edit this line;
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<div id="{if $head_version < 1.1}content{/if}{if $template_option.contentposition == 'true'}content{elseif $template_option.contentposition == 'false'}contentalt{/if}">{$CONTENT}</div>
See the first 'content', just change that to 'contentalt'. Users of version 1.1 of Serendipity don't need to worry about this because column swapping is done from within 'Manage Styles' in the admin suite.

Excellent! Thank you. I absolutely love the 1024px template. I am going to use it from now on!

Now, if you don't mind, a quick question then I will leave you alone

How would I change the font size for the "Categories" text to match the size of my HTML Nuggets? Would that be in Style.css?

Thanks for the excellent theme!

Regarding the "MT" templates....I had nothing specific in mind, just wondering that's all. Yes I agree they are very good themes.

Would you mind taking a quick look at my site to see what you think? I made a few small modifications

Link in sig!

carl_galloway · Post by **carl_galloway** » Sun Jun 25, 2006 6:09 am

yup, definitely in style.css, however I notice you're actually inserting font tags into your nugget, get rid of these and change the font size in

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.serendipitySideBarContent {}

I would recommend something like 8pt, or 0.9em or something similar. Good luck

PerfectCr · Post by **PerfectCr** » Sun Jun 25, 2006 4:18 pm

carl_galloway wrote:yup, definitely in style.css, however I notice you're actually inserting font tags into your nugget, get rid of these and change the font size in
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.serendipitySideBarContent {}
I would recommend something like 8pt, or 0.9em or something similar. Good luck

Got it.

For some odd reason, the font under "Catagories" is different than the font used in my HTML nuggets, eventhough I have removed all font tags. Perhaps it's just my eyes. The Categories section also contain line breaks. Oh well. I wonder why? Thanks!