Black-Letterhead

If you like to move the sidebar location from right to left, just modify a couple of lines of code in style.css. Here’s the code:

[source language=":css"]
.narrowcolumn {
float: right;
padding: 0 45px 20px 0;
margin: 0;
width: 450px;
}
#sidebar {
padding: 20px 5px 10px 5px;
margin-left: 25px;
width: 190px;
}
[/source]

That’s it. The sidebar should be on the left side of the page now.

Black-Letterhead theme version 1.2 is now available. This is the latest version which works with the latest and greatest WordPress Widgets. With widgets, you can now move content in and out of the sidebar area by simply dragging and dropping widget elements. How cool is that? Well, if you’re interested in downloading the latest version of the theme, just visit the download page. To learn more about widgets, here are several links for your reading pleasure.

WordPress.org
WordPress.com
Lorelle on WordPress
PascalRossini.com

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?

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I have decided to dim the searchbar and the comment areas since I felt they were too bright for the theme. I feel the new color scheme will match the overall theme better. The original colors were #A0A0A0. They have now been set to #333333. To add contrast, the foreground had to be changed to #B0B0B0. The following CSS code changes are listed below. The latest changes have been added in the latest download file.

[source language=":css"]
#sidebar #searchform #s {
color: #B0B0B0;
background-color: #333333;
}
#sidebar #searchsubmit {
color: #B0B0B0;
background-color: #333333;
}
#commentform input {
color: #B0B0B0;
background-color: #333333;
}
#commentform textarea {
color: #B0B0B0;
background-color: #333333;
}
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Welcome to the Black-Letterhead page, a WordPress 2.1 theme based on Robin Hasting’s theme called Letterhead which in turn is based on Kubrick, the default theme for WordPress 1.5.

I modified the colors of Letterhead and called it Black-Letterhead because of its black background. The color scheme was inspired by the team colors of the San Francisco Giants, a Major League Baseball team.

I entered this theme in the WordPress 1.5 Theme Competition hosted by Alex King. Since then, numerous websites have popped up all over the world using the Black-Letterhead theme. Some have altered it even more by using different color schemes.

I created this page to provide support for current and future users of the Black-Letterhead WordPress Theme. You can download the latest changes from the download page.