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Posted: **Mon Feb 20, 2006 6:38 pm**

Hi everybody!

I'm working on a new Theme based on the code of our new defalt-Theme by Carl Galloway. May have a look and give me tipps how to make it better!

Take me to the theme

Thanks,
Lordcoffee!

Posted: **Mon Feb 20, 2006 8:02 pm**

Yeehah, I love it when people take my themes and do wonderful things with them. I notice that the 'startseite' link appears on all pages, but if you upgrade to a newer vesion of serendipity you will notice it does not appear on the startpage - I'll let you figure out what else you can do with that one!!!!!!

Also, I'm noticing on firefox and IE that the entry footer is causing problems for you. I haven't checked your output so might be speaking nonsense but it seems like your entry icon is too large, and maybe you need to force a line break or make it block level in your stylesheet. Let me know when you're finished with that theme, I would love to provide a link to the zipfile from my own blog.

Posted: **Tue Feb 21, 2006 1:21 am**

Very nice. I guess the calendar area will not be blue when you finish!

Nice colors really.

Posted: **Tue Feb 21, 2006 8:59 am**

oh yes, the colors make you look at your monitor for sure

. i like those big icons. seems like it will be a "solid" theme. did you test it under lower resolutions like 1024x768? i think the icons will become a little bit too big on lowres screens.

keep it up!

CoSTa

Posted: **Tue Feb 21, 2006 4:16 pm**

@costa: I tested it on 800x600px and I think it will good.

@davecjr: of course!

@Carl: There's a little problem with the width of the Header. The Header is 2px larger than the mainpane. This is the same with your "original" default theme. Any ideas?

Edit: I've updated to the actual Version and the Startpage buttons over the footer still apear.

Posted: **Tue Feb 21, 2006 8:12 pm**

lordcoffee,

1. I adjusted the width of the header by 2px so that th edge would line up with the border around the main content, other wise IE was ruining the way the page looked. Go ahead and adjust this to your needs.

2. Looking at the code for the startpage, I realise Garvin must have removed this to maintain backwards compatibility - sorry for misleading you. My original code is this;

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	<br />{if not $startpage}<a href="{$serendipityBaseURL}">{$CONST.FRONT_PAGE}</a> - {/if}<a href="{$serendipityBaseURL}archives">{$CONST.ARCHIVES}</a>{if not $footer_info} - <a href="#topofpage">{$CONST.BACK_TO_TOP}</a>{/if}
    {serendipity_hookPlugin hook="entries_footer"}
    </div>

And that should get you really excited when you see it working. Just imagine a different front page for your blog. You'd need to radically change your index.tpl, but I've already proven this will work and a talented designer should be able to make something really groovy out of this. Just remember that this is NOT backwards compatible and anyone running serendipity 0.91 will not be able to use your theme the way you intend.

Posted: **Wed Feb 22, 2006 6:28 am**

very nice... I see some ideas in there I might have to copy!!! Great job!

Posted: **Fri Feb 24, 2006 11:34 pm**

Hi!

Now, I think the Theme is nearly ready. Watch here One Question to Carl:
In the style.css I can find these lines:

/* style for even numbered comments*/
.comment_evenbox {
margin:0 0 20px 0;
border-top:1px solid #5f90ba;
border-bottom:1px solid #5f90ba;
background-color:#fafbfc;
color:#505050;
line-height:1.5em; }

/* style for odd numbered comments*/
.comment_oddbox {
margin:0 0 20px 0;
border-top:1px solid #c0c0c0;
border-bottom:1px solid #c0c0c0;
background-color:#fafbfc;
color:#505050;
line-height:1.5em; }

But if I edit them it has no effect on the comments. Any Ideas?

Thanx, Lordcoffee

Posted: **Mon Feb 27, 2006 3:02 pm**

ooops.... I've deleted the "_" of the comments.tpl

Now I think its done! I'll clean all the data and post a downloadlink tonight.
May have a look if you like...

Look here!

Thanks, Lordcoffee!

Posted: **Mon Feb 27, 2006 5:19 pm**

lordcoffee, that is a very attractive theme. Its about time Serendipity had a green theme. Good work. Let me know if you want this posted on my themes tester

Posted: **Mon Feb 27, 2006 7:58 pm**

Lordcoffee,

also please tell me if you would like to submit your theme to the Spartacus Repository?

Best regards,
Garvin

Posted: **Mon Feb 27, 2006 8:44 pm**

Of course I do, but this time i like to test it first on Carls Theme Tester! I'll be ready in 30 minutes to upload the zip-file. You can insert the to the Spartacus Repository but it's really really really possible that there are a lot of bugs. Because I'm designer not a programmer

oh... 29 minutes left...

Posted: **Mon Feb 27, 2006 9:28 pm**

So, as I promised... here it is with screenshots, preview and TATTAAA its own emoticons

:

!Download here!

I'll call it "GreenMile".

Posted: **Mon Feb 27, 2006 10:17 pm**

Your wish is my command, it is on the themes tester ready for any last changes you want to make. When you're ready to release it properly could you send me a message so I can update the tester and create a trackback to your blog?

I had to make a few changes to a couple of entries to stop the design being blown out by my code examplaes that have no linebreaks. Ah well, it is more important to see what a theme looks like in normal use than to deliberately try to break every theme.

Hope this helps, and once again, well done. I think you'll be happy with the result. As per usual, use the 'Theme Switcher' to see 'Green Mile' in action.

Edit: Forgot to mention the themes tester is running the very first version of 1.0beta2 so is not the latest nightly.

Posted: **Mon Feb 27, 2006 10:32 pm**

Hmmm... it seems to work, but one thing I'm wondering about:

How could one entry stick into another

I'll also make a few category Icons that fit to the design.
For Audio, Computer, Mac, Xp, Web, Photo, Books, Movies, Games, Fun...

Please write me some more examples!

Thanks and greetz,
Lordcoffee!

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