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July 3, 2008

Black Green Theme

Black Green Theme

Introducing my latest WordPress theme called Black Green. It’s simple, ultra-minimal and uses an Ajax Accordion script. The theme is a spin of the Black-Letterhead theme, but it’s more elegant and simpler. See the Accordion script in action by clicking between the Articles and Archives links. For support, please visit the Support Forum.

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Comments

  1. Ron says

    July 9, 2008 at 12:56 pm

    I really love your beautifull theme! Simple and clean. I have a few questions:

    Why is there no link page?

    Accordian css: Position: relative; can it be centered?

    thx

    regards Ron

  2. ulyssesr says

    July 9, 2008 at 3:10 pm

    Ron, the links you are looking for are located in the Archives page. Just click on the Archives link from the theme’s homepage. As far as the relative positioning is concerned, this is the preferred choice since setting it to absolute screws up the accordion transitions. The footer briefly flashes when clicking on the Articles and Archives links. Yes, the posts can be centered. Just add another div inside the post div and style it in style.css.

  3. Ron says

    July 10, 2008 at 12:32 pm

    Sorry, the links will not show up if I click the Archive link on the homepage.
    For the links to show up you need a link.php.

  4. ulyssesr says

    July 10, 2008 at 1:38 pm

    Hi Ron, I think I know what’s going on. I think your old theme had a page template called link.php, while this theme doesn’t have it. That’s why nothing shows up. But, there is an easy fix for this. You can copy your old link.php file and place it in this theme. You need to edit it using the same formatting you see in my page.php. By the way, your site looks good with the Black Green theme. Congratulations. In Dutch, right?

  5. technology says

    July 23, 2008 at 1:37 am

    greating…

  6. ProphetJoe says

    August 1, 2008 at 10:44 am

    I like both the Black-Green and the Black Letterhead themes, but I want you to combine the 2 — I want the accordion and the minimalist design, but I want the (reverse) the Black Letterhead design to that there is a dark gray background and a black content container (Image inverting the colors on BL and having the functionality of BG)

    Is that do-able?

    PJ

  7. ulyssesr says

    August 1, 2008 at 11:00 am

    ProphetJoe,

    The good news is Black Green is based on Black-Letterhead. You should be able to control background colors via style.css and accordion.css. You control the page width as well. I recommend you use the Web Developer extension in Firefox, that’s if you use Firefox. It’s a great tool for applying CSS on the fly and seeing the results without uploading to server.

  8. ProphetJoe says

    August 4, 2008 at 5:14 am

    Hi Ulysses,

    I’ve snooped around inside the CSS, but I don’t see where there is a “container” div tag. I’ll download BL and see if I can determine where it is in that theme and then try to add a new DIV to BG — unless you have a quicker/better option (and I’m all ears if you do 🙂 )

    Thanks again,
    PJ

  9. ProphetJoe says

    August 4, 2008 at 5:18 am

    Disregard that — I see what I’m looking for… it must be too early in the day 🙂

  10. ulyssesr says

    August 4, 2008 at 6:37 am

    Try this ProphetJoe. In style.css, change:

    body {
    background-color:#444;
    }

    That will give you a dark grey background drop.

    🙂

  11. ProphetJoe says

    August 5, 2008 at 7:55 am

    Hi again Ulysses,

    Thanks.. but I’m way beyond the background now 😉

    I do have one element that I haven’t been able to find/change — the date element. According to firebug, it is the class=”postdate”, but I don’t find it in either .css file. I even tried adding it to style.css, but that didn’t work either… any ideas?

    Thanks,
    PJ

  12. ProphetJoe says

    August 7, 2008 at 7:29 am

    Ulysses,

    I’ve mucked something up… if you look at my site using FireFox, it looks the way I want it to look, but if you use IE — it looks like crap — the accordion_child element is WAY out of line and I don’t understand why… any suggestions??

    Thanks,
    PJ

  13. ProphetJoe says

    August 13, 2008 at 10:45 am

    Hi again Ulysses,

    I’ve noticed a distracting shake in the javascript transition between the posts link and the menu (or meta) link. I don’t recall seeing this before and I’m puzzled if I changed something inadvertently… Would you take a look at my page to see what I mean?

    Many thanks!
    PJ

  14. ulyssesr says

    August 13, 2008 at 10:59 am

    Prophet Joe,

    I noticed the page is whacked in IE particularly with the accordion index page. Do you remember what changes you did on accordion.css? The page width is also too wide. Let me take a look at it this afternoon. Sorry, kind of busy lately. I’ll get to it this afternoon.

  15. ulyssesr says

    August 13, 2008 at 5:12 pm

    Prophet Joe,

    I noticed you made quite a bit of CSS changes to style and the accordion files. I found it difficult to undone what you have done without spending too much time and fixing every little thing. One option is to start from scratch. Download the theme again and make litlle changes along the way and making sure it works in both Firefox and IE browsers. Do you have a chat account if you want to discuss further. I’m available at ulyssesr at either yahoo, msn or aol.

  16. ProphetJoe says

    August 26, 2008 at 5:45 am

    Thanks, Ulysses — sorry it’s taken me so long for me to respond, but it’s been very hectic lately!!

    PJ

  17. blizzu says

    February 4, 2009 at 9:59 am

    Hello there,

    I love this theme of yours, it’s just awesome!
    I was wondering if I’m allowed to do any changes to it? I kinda already did, but if u don’t allow it, I’ll just have to think of something else. I’ll change the theme immediately back the way it was if you say so 😀

    Could u please reply via email? Would be great. You can see the changes by checking the website i provided.

    • ulyssesr says

      February 4, 2009 at 10:29 am

      blizzu,

      the theme is release GNU open source. You can do anything you want to it as long as you release the code if someone asks for it.

      I like the changes you made to the theme. Keep up the good work.

  18. blizzu says

    February 4, 2009 at 10:01 am

    Forgot to ask one thing. Is there any easy way to make this widget-ready? I’m not that good coder. :>

    • ulyssesr says

      February 4, 2009 at 10:31 am

      I suppose you can make any part of the theme widget ready. Check out the Akismet or the WordPress.org website. They have tutorials how to make a theme widget ready. You can apply it to any theme or any part of a theme. Good luck with that.

  19. Wiesel Werkstätte says

    February 9, 2009 at 8:17 am

    Hi,

    Great theme, but the accordion seems not to work in IE 6. I hate IE. Is there a fix?

    Thanks.

    • ulyssesr says

      February 9, 2009 at 2:18 pm

      Wiesel, I have to take a look at it. I thought I had it tested on IE6 and IE7. I’ll get back to you later.

      • Wiesel Werkstätte says

        February 10, 2009 at 7:52 am

        OK, I figured out what was wrong; I had IE set at it’s most secure for internet browsing and it blocked the javascript. I apologize for wasting your time.

        By the way, I’m preparing to use your theme and I’d like to know the proper etiquette for giving you credit.

        Thanks again.

  20. Koshie says

    August 24, 2010 at 5:29 am

    Hi,

    What is the licence for you theme please ?

    Koshie

    • Ulysses says

      August 24, 2010 at 5:40 am

      It’s GPL.

  21. Koshie says

    August 24, 2010 at 5:52 am

    Thanks dude.

  22. miere de albine ieftina says

    November 28, 2010 at 3:44 am

    It is really good.

  23. cefer says

    January 13, 2011 at 12:07 am

    very nice..
    simple but very cool..
    😀

  24. Soccer Tips says

    March 3, 2011 at 4:02 am

    Owesome themes. Thanks

  25. Joyeria says

    June 3, 2011 at 4:59 pm

    I constantly continue to network with other design studios, blogs and tutorial sites to expand my network!!

  26. pekakbongol says

    September 17, 2011 at 8:16 am

    Nice another theme. must try it.. thanks

  27. Ulysses says

    November 15, 2010 at 11:19 pm

    Nice!!

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