More Than Multiple Widgets Showcase
This is a showcase of blogs using my More Than Multiple Widgets theme. It’s interesting to see what people can do with the theme.
The base theme. This is used on my blog. This is the way the theme looks if you do no changes to the color scheme or font.
Joel Wideman helped me fix a few things with the theme and discovered that the color values for the theme can actually be replace with anything that goes between “background:” and “;” in the stylesheet. Values like “transparent” and “url(http://flickr.com/your_pic)” as well as a hexadecimal color value. The only issue you may run into is that the sidebar is actually a sidebar in the upper part, but in order to give the impression that the sidebar continued all the way down to the footer, the bottom part is actually a really wide border on the main content area of the page.
Check out Joel’s site, Jailed Women.
Anyone else using the theme, let me know through a comment and I’ll check it out.
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15 comments
Joel Wideman on December 19, 2007 at 2:37 pm
What I actually do is use two different opacities - one 25% and one 50%. The 25% is for the main content area. This makes the transparency look a bit more even.
The only real downside to this theme is that I can’t fit a regular banner in. However, with the adsense built in, I may change to that instead of Project Wonderful.
Proud to be featured | Jailed Women on December 19, 2007 at 5:28 pm
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gandhi anwar on January 5, 2008 at 2:11 am
hm, nice info! i wana change my blog to wordpress… :((
Randall Black on January 7, 2008 at 10:30 am
What? No showcase for me yet?
lol! j/k. I still love the theme and plan to keep using it from now on.
Stephan Miller on January 7, 2008 at 10:58 am
The best laid plans. You know how it goes. But I do plan on getting some more up here some day.
Randall Black on January 14, 2008 at 12:13 pm
Sweet! Finally got the feature! Thanks man! Gotta love being promoted.
Marc on January 21, 2008 at 4:31 am
“The only issue you may run into is that the sidebar is actually a sidebar in the upper part, but in order to give the impression that the sidebar continued all the way down to the footer, the bottom part is actually a really wide border on the main content area of the page.”
I don’t understand. Just how do you fix this issue?
Stephan Miller on January 21, 2008 at 4:33 am
It’s an issue if you want to put an image as a background. It will not show all the way to the bottom. It is not really an issue, but a limitation of the theme.
Marc on January 21, 2008 at 5:59 am
Oh, I see! I think.
The fact I expanded the width of the theme, and the side bar, is the reason the background extends into the bottom section of side bar as you scroll down through the theme?
It can be masked by making the background and the sidebar color the same, or by adding more links etc in the side bar to make it longer, but I think there should be some parameter for width that I missed, or don’t understand.
Is that a correct assumption? or is the background photo in the side bar a separate issue?
Stephan Miller on January 21, 2008 at 6:31 am
There is a border on the main content that has to be the same width and color as the sidebar for it to look like one piece.
It’s #wrapper.
The width of it’s border and the negative value of it’s margin-right are the same value as the width of the sidebar.
A background image in the sidebar will only follow the length of the text there.
Hopefully that helps.
Marc on January 21, 2008 at 7:28 am
That got it!
Setting the #wrapper width to the width of the #content eliminated the problem.
Thanks
Stephan Miller on January 22, 2008 at 3:58 am
Cool, I’m glad it worked.
haidi on January 31, 2008 at 4:39 pm
do you any idea how to change blogger template?
Stephan Miller on February 4, 2008 at 1:26 pm
Not really. Only had a blog with them for about a week.
Shawn on August 8, 2008 at 4:34 pm
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