Black-Letterhead 1.1
I’ve decided to make the latest version of the Black-Letterhead theme available to anyone. I’m currently using the theme on my website. With the new version, I have fixed many bugs, cross-browser issues, and other fixes I’ve already mentioned here before. I’ve incorporated all of them and called it Black-Letterhead 1.1 version.
Here is a preview.
What’s new with version 1.1?
- The ‘body’ background color is now #333 (dark grey) instead of #000 (black). #333 gives more emphasis to the page and content area than the previous version.
- I’ve changed the font style of the ‘title’ for the post, page, etc. This is ‘h2′ and ‘h3′ to those intimate with CSS. The font is now ‘Palatino Linotype.’ To me, it looks much better because the font is now bigger and fatter than the original.
- The horizontal lines were change from the color grey to #777. The word ‘grey’ was causing the horizontal lines to disappear in IE.
- I’ve added a ’screenshot.png’ image to work with the new Dashboard for WordPress 2.0 and higher.
- I’ve added a Guestbook template. It’s a Page with comments. To make a Guestbook, just create a new page and call it Guestbook. Apply the Guestbook template to the page. That’s it.
- I modified the navigation links when in a single page mode.
- I’ve added spaces between the “Edit | Comments” after each post. The Edit link only appears if the Admin is logged in.
- I fixed the image margin problems. There is now a margin of 7px all around images inside a post.
- The new theme validates to W3C and CSS standards.
- The footer alignment problem has been fixed.
- Certain sections of the the calendar had white backgrounds. This is now fixed.
- The comment and search areas have been dimmed.
- Cleanup of CSS.
The new theme is available for download here.
Any comments?
Users of Blackletterhead might be interested in several AJAX plugins and hacks I’ve implemented with this theme in both Wordpress 1.5.2 and 2.0.1. I’ve collected most of the links here :
http://cosmic.lifeform.org
and here :
http://cosmic.lifeform.org/?p=56
AJAX Live Commenting works fairly well, the tutorial is here :
http://zeo.unic.net.my/2005/12/25/wordpress-ajax-commenting-revisited/
Expand Comments also works well, if you drop both PHP calls into the bottom of post.php, and use the correct relative links and placement of exp-com.php.
http://nymb.us/?page_id=45
Implementing these hacks requires some experience, but isn’t hard. I’ve described my experiences on my blog and at the development sites. You can see the Blackletterhead implementations on my Blog sites.
Have fun with it!
Thomas.
I’ll checked those Ajax links on your site. They look very promising. Who knows, you might see it on my website. Thanks for the links.
Ulysses
No problem, and thanks for the great theme, styles and the update.
It is much appreciatied. Here is my other less political blog :
http://cosmic.lifeform.net
Hello
Just want to say thank you very much for the Black-Letterhead theme.
I really love it - i’m not able to tweak wordpress’s theme to create one.
Merci beaucoup.
Best.