Need two sidebars on Freshy theme - will pay

tombriggs · Post by **tombriggs** » Mon Mar 24, 2008 8:41 pm

I like the Freshy theme very much, but I need two sidebars. I'm sure that it's a fairly simply change for someone who knows what they're doing, but unfortunately I have no clue.

Would somebody out there be willing to make the necessary changes to the theme for a small fee?

Changes to be made publicly available, BTW... I'm not looking for private work here.

Thanks
-Tom

Post by **Don Chambers** » Tue Mar 25, 2008 1:55 am

Tom - I think it is great that you are willing to make a contribution to someone who helps you, and then share the modification with the serendipity community!!! That is awesome and sets a great example for others to follow!

A number of people here are more than capable of making that change, myself included.... however, I think the original template author deserves the first shot at it. Have you contacted the author? You can do so here: http://abdussamad.com/pages/contactform.html

tombriggs · Post by **tombriggs** » Tue Mar 25, 2008 2:20 am

Don Chambers wrote:Tom - I think it is great that you are willing to make a contribution to someone who helps you, and then share the modification with the serendipity community!!! That is awesome and sets a great example for others to follow!

A number of people here are more than capable of making that change, myself included.... however, I think the original template author deserves the first shot at it. Have you contacted the author? You can do so here: http://abdussamad.com/pages/contactform.html

Yeah, I used that form to ask if he could do this a couple weeks ago and got no response. So then I took a stab it myself, and came up horribly short.

And thus, here I am today...

Post by **Don Chambers** » Tue Mar 25, 2008 3:02 am

He is in Pakistan... communication may not be what it used to be. Let's give him a bit, and if there is still no response, I will help you. How's that sound?

tombriggs · Post by **tombriggs** » Tue Mar 25, 2008 4:10 am

Don Chambers wrote:He is in Pakistan... communication may not be what it used to be. Let's give him a bit, and if there is still no response, I will help you. How's that sound?

Thanks Don, much appreciated. I'll give him another week or so... sound good?

abdussamad · Post by **abdussamad** » Fri Mar 28, 2008 11:37 am

Don Chambers wrote:He is in Pakistan... communication may not be what it used to be. Let's give him a bit, and if there is still no response, I will help you. How's that sound?

Yeah thats it. The homing pigeon must be dead

What the hell do you think Pakistan is

? We don't live in the stone age you know.

Yeah, I used that form to ask if he could do this a couple weeks ago and got no response. So then I took a stab it myself, and came up horribly short. Very Happy And thus, here I am today... Smile

I got your message but I dismissed it as a phishing attempt. Some people enjoy emailing me with offers of money for work and then don't pay up

. Anyway I'll look into it but I don't expect you to be able to pay me because paypal doesn't support my country. If you want fast work then feel free to hire don.

Anyway where do you want the second sidebar and do you want me to increase the total width of the theme as well? Squeezing in a second sidebar in the existing width will make the theme look more cramped. Also these days two sidebars side by side is fashionable. Do you want that ? See yellowleds ports for examples of that:

http://matthias.yellowled.de/archives/9 ... echie.html

tombriggs · Post by **tombriggs** » Sat Mar 29, 2008 6:10 pm

abdussamad wrote: I got your message but I dismissed it as a phishing attempt. Some people enjoy emailing me with offers of money for work and then don't pay up

You mean there are dishonest people on the Internet? NO!

abdussamad wrote: Anyway I'll look into it but I don't expect you to be able to pay me because paypal doesn't support my country. If you want fast work then feel free to hire don.

Hrmph. That's too bad. I'd really rather give you the money, both for the changes and the original port too. (No offense to Don there, BTW... just trying to give credit where credit is due.)

I don't know that I need the changes made super-fast, so if you think you'll get to it sometime soon (like a month or so) then I'll just wait. Hopefully someday I'll find a way to get some money to you...

abdussamad wrote: Anyway where do you want the second sidebar and do you want me to increase the total width of the theme as well? Squeezing in a second sidebar in the existing width will make the theme look more cramped. Also these days two sidebars side by side is fashionable. Do you want that ? See yellowleds ports for examples of that:

http://matthias.yellowled.de/archives/9 ... echie.html

Yes, I would like the overall width widened... it actually feels pretty cramped to me as it is.

As for where to put the second sidebar... I'd be happy with it on either side, though I would agree that having them both on one side does look cooler.

Thanks!

Post by **Don Chambers** » Sat Mar 29, 2008 10:28 pm

Hey, I certainly meant no offense!! I had heard of internet problems in that part of the world awhile ago and did not know if the issues had been resolved.

Maybe you guys could use Western Union or something other than paypal? And once again Tom - thanks for setting a good example by supporting the original author!! Doing so helps the entire community!!

abdussamad · Post by **abdussamad** » Sun Mar 30, 2008 3:50 pm

Ok I finished a modified version of freshy that expands to > 1024px if there are plugins in both sidebars. You can download it here:

http://abdussamad.com/uploads/mytemplat ... y_1024.zip

To install it just unzip it and upload the freshy_1024 folder to your s9y templates folder. Then select freshy 1024 in admin->manage styles. Choose a *_large.jpg image for the header. For example droplets_large.jpg instead of droplets.jpg. If you want to use a custom image it should be 1000x95 in size if you are using two sidebars and 780x95 for one. If everything is ok then I'll replace the existing freshy on my site with this one.

tombriggs · Post by **tombriggs** » Fri Apr 11, 2008 5:41 am

abdussamad wrote:Ok I finished a modified version of freshy that expands to > 1024px if there are plugins in both sidebars. You can download it here:

http://abdussamad.com/uploads/mytemplat ... y_1024.zip

To install it just unzip it and upload the freshy_1024 folder to your s9y templates folder. Then select freshy 1024 in admin->manage styles. Choose a *_large.jpg image for the header. For example droplets_large.jpg instead of droplets.jpg. If you want to use a custom image it should be 1000x95 in size if you are using two sidebars and 780x95 for one. If everything is ok then I'll replace the existing freshy on my site with this one.

Sorry that I didn't see this right away - for some reason I didn't get notified about your post via email.

But this is just what I was looking for! Thanks so much. I'll find some way to return the favor some day, honest.

tombriggs · Post by **tombriggs** » Fri Apr 11, 2008 6:45 am

abdussamad wrote:Ok I finished a modified version of freshy that expands to > 1024px if there are plugins in both sidebars. You can download it here:

http://abdussamad.com/uploads/mytemplat ... y_1024.zip

To install it just unzip it and upload the freshy_1024 folder to your s9y templates folder. Then select freshy 1024 in admin->manage styles. Choose a *_large.jpg image for the header. For example droplets_large.jpg instead of droplets.jpg. If you want to use a custom image it should be 1000x95 in size if you are using two sidebars and 780x95 for one. If everything is ok then I'll replace the existing freshy on my site with this one.

I am having one issue - since upgrading to this version of the theme, the karma plugin no longer shows images - only text. I think this has something to do with the CSS for the karma plugin not being sent to the browser, but I can't figure why (or how to fix it). Anybody have any thoughts?

tombriggs · Post by **tombriggs** » Fri Apr 11, 2008 3:13 pm

tombriggs wrote:I am having one issue - since upgrading to this version of the theme, the karma plugin no longer shows images - only text. I think this has something to do with the CSS for the karma plugin not being sent to the browser, but I can't figure why (or how to fix it). Anybody have any thoughts?

I figured it out - index.tpl did not include a reference to serendipity.css when both sidebars were used. I tweaked it to include both style_1024.css and serendipity.css and now everything seems to be working fine.

Thanks again!

tombriggs · Post by **tombriggs** » Fri Apr 11, 2008 3:28 pm

tombriggs wrote:
tombriggs wrote:I am having one issue - since upgrading to this version of the theme, the karma plugin no longer shows images - only text. I think this has something to do with the CSS for the karma plugin not being sent to the browser, but I can't figure why (or how to fix it). Anybody have any thoughts?
I figured it out - index.tpl did not include a reference to serendipity.css when both sidebars were used. I tweaked it to include both style_1024.css and serendipity.css and now everything seems to be working fine.

Thanks again!

Nope, I take that back... that fixes the karma plugin but breaks the second sidebar. Back to square one...

tombriggs · Post by **tombriggs** » Fri Apr 11, 2008 6:35 pm

tombriggs wrote: Nope, I take that back... that fixes the karma plugin but breaks the second sidebar. Back to square one...

Ok, so now I really have it figured out - I manually requested /index.php?/serendipity.css, then copy-n-pasted all the CSS related to the karma plugin into freshy/style_1024.css. Viola!

abdussamad · Post by **abdussamad** » Tue Apr 15, 2008 4:45 am

Ok, so now I really have it figured out - I manually requested /index.php?/serendipity.css, then copy-n-pasted all the CSS related to the karma plugin into freshy/style_1024.css. Viola!

Yes that would work but its not very portable. You would have to do that for every plugin that you install like say the freetag plugin .

I have updated freshy on my site with the fix for this bug. I have also emailed tom in case he misses this post here. The fix is to include both style.css and,if there are 2 sidebars, style_1024.css. Any plugin that uses serendipity.css should now display correctly. style_1024.css has also been trimmed so that it only includes the styles changed from style.css (something I should have done in the first place).