I couldn’t resist. Foliage sounds like Folgers [coffee]. Sing it with me: “The best part of waking up, is [Foliage] in your cup!” Ack. No?. I know there are people who each their veggies.
Well here it is, my first public release to the Wordpress community. From what I hear, the Wordpress group is an active bunch always willing to lend a hand. As such, I’ve decided that this single column reincarnation of my original 5ThirtyOne Dark was a more than acceptable candidate to serve as my initial release into the community.
Foliage - which will remain active on 5ThirtyOne until its “eventual” completion - is a simple, clean, minimalistic template which reflects my own personal tastes; those being single narrow columns, light text on dark [anything], and my recent attraction towards the color green (it must be a March or Spring thing). I tried the traditional dark on light with with my ‘Spades’ theme but lost interest. If there’s enough interest I’ll host those files as well.
Eat your veggies and grab your copy from the official Foliage page.
Phil Bowell
Mar 6th, 2006
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I have installed your theme on my test site, so I could check it out and look at customising it. I appear to have a problem with it. NON of the links work in the main navigation or the small navigation at the bottom of the page.
Check for yourself here.
Derek
Mar 6th, 2006
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phil: that’s because i left the links as http://#. you’ll need to update those as i hand coded my nav links. i’ve also updated the distribution as i neglected to include styling for list items.
Jon
Mar 6th, 2006
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OK, reporting them as I find them.) If any of these are just design decisions or things left to customise by each individual, forgive my ignorance.
In bottom_index,php, the heading above where the recent posts are also says “Toolshed”, same as the actual toolshed section lying below it.
When typing in the comment box, the cursor is black on a dark grey background, which, if you leave it and come back, makes it a little bit hard to find. This is a very small niggle, but I’ll mention it just in case you are interested in the opinions of pedantic assholes
Actually…that’s it. Anything else I initially thought was an error seems to just be a matter of changing where links point. Thanks a lot for the theme, it’s beautiful. I confess there are a couple of things I’d love to see added, but I’ll leave you in well-deserved peace for now.
Jon
Mar 6th, 2006
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A couple more things: to use the search, you have to manually delete the word “search” before adding your query, rather that it disappearing as soon as you click in/tab to the search field. Also, if your search returns no results, you get the style’s “404″ page, rather than a dedicated “your search returned no results” type thing.
Please don’t think this is criticism; be assured I’m just pointing these out to help get you towards you destination a little faster.
Derek
Mar 6th, 2006
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jon: great to see someone decided to give the theme a spin. everything that you’ve mentioned with the exception of the double toolshed titles in bottom_index.php were design decisions. the fact that the empty search results page is the same as the 404 was a decision on my part. feel free to edit as needed. changes have been noted and made.
Jay
Mar 6th, 2006
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Sweet, I’ll give it a whirl this evening for kicks. Great work bud! (and *ahem*, I’d be slightly more interested in Spades
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Derek
Mar 6th, 2006
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well then… ahem. spades will find its own download page soon enough. thankfully the last time i ran the theme i rebuilt the psd files from scratch so it should be fairly easy to customize. a little less complete than foliage but worthy of a good cause.
Jon
Mar 6th, 2006
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No problem, I’ll work my way through those, gradually.
By the way, you have a little typo in the tag template, “archive” is missing a “c”.
Jay
Mar 6th, 2006
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Oh nice! That was a total shot in the dark about wanting spades. But I wouldn’t mind tweaking that one a bit, mainly as a base, there are a few graphic (beaver) that I’d have to intergrate.
Derek
Mar 6th, 2006
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spades should get some real world use. if anything it would be a great template to work off of.