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New Competencies for Theme Designers

adam — Mon, 31 Mar 2008 19:26:08 +0000

WordPress 2.5's new image uploader solves the longstanding bug of using deprecated XHTML attributes to float images (align="left", etc.), rather than it being done in CSS. This is handled by applying classes to the image when it's inserted into the post, rather than via inline CSS. This is good, in terms of semantics, clean markup, and separating presentation from content. It's something that Scott suggested a while back, that I've been building into my themes and designs since.

This places the responsibility on theme authors to support the new classes. They are:

alignleft
alignright
aligncenter

I'm not convinced of the need for the align prefix, but it's great progress nonetheless. If your theme doesn't support those classes, here's the code you can insert at the end to handle them:


.alignleft,.left {
	float:left;
	margin: 0.5em;
}
.alignright,.right {
	float:right;
	margin: 0.5em;
}
.aligncenter, .center {
	display: block;
	text-align: center;
	margin: 0 auto;
}

Shameless Plugs

adam — Wed, 06 Jun 2007 12:53:21 +0000

Scott's organizing a wordpress design competition, purely in CSS. which means it's open to:

wordpress.com users
anyone who can use CSS, since PHP and javascript won't be judged

Also, Sourceforge is running Community Choice awards, so you can go nominate Dream in Infrared, if you're so inclined:

(Disconnected is also eligible).

Naked 2.0

adam — Wed, 04 Apr 2007 14:00:54 +0000

dunstin's site has a new web2.0 looking logo this year. so that your site isn't as ugly as last year. it's not really important, though. the whole concept is still

self serving, confusing and disenfranchising to users

so no, i'm still not doing it.

standards are nothing if they're not also best practices.

I Can’t Dream Anymore

adam — Sat, 10 Mar 2007 05:00:09 +0000

This is a somewhat sort of half-assed port of a theme that i'm working on. the theme itself hacks a sandbox core to bits, but this is purely sandbox. we'll see if i can live with the bog-standard state-switching capabilities of the sandbox. naturally, i'm still in the midst of fucking it up, so watch your step.

WIP: The Late Show

adam — Wed, 14 Feb 2007 18:09:23 +0000

The Late Show by Liz Lubowitz.

As much as i love using this theme, It's taking away from the energy i need to direct towards other projects. Inspired by patrick heaney, i'm going to strip down to something spartan, until i have the time to finish my own design.

This is a Work In Progress. First there's the matter of license. Liz happily granted me permission to port the theme, but the theme is certainly not GPL, so it's always going to be kind of "for personal use only".

Also, Sixapart's Style Contest themes work a little differently, in that they make use of a body class for each layout. (two-column-left, etc.) Even after adding the name of the current sandbox skin as a class to the body of the sandbox, i'd still need to finish my "Layout Dependent Sandbox Skins" plugin for this to really be workable.

Download:

So here's my two column left version of the theme, and hopefully Rothyschild will finish her 3 column version soon. Select the 'no stylesheet' skin, and paste these two CSS files into the 'edit css' box in order:
base-weblog.css
thelateshow.css