A graphic designer’s comments to me about Inuit Types
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Richard/Sacredpath wrote:
”Inuit Types could use some tweaking, but I’m thinking about using it also. “Lorna asks:
Richard, does this mean that the WordPress.COM Inuit Types might get the results of your tweaks? Or is it going to be an ORG personal tweak?At any rate, none of my friends have complained (though I forgot to email them to ask). If my friend were just anybody I might not have sent it to WordPress, but she is a graphic artist and I have always thought highly of her work.
If everyone writes in to say that they have no problems reading Inuit Types, nobody will be happier than I, because I like it. Of course, this does not mean that I won’t experiment with the next new theme that comes out. Themes are part of the fun of WordPress. I could never ever stay with the same one for a long time. I began with DePo and loved that one too, for its magazine format, but the Inuit Types has mag formats which end up being regular formats, which I like more.
Because of your blog I compared the left or right sidebar again and realized that it is better balanced being on the right, because of the text in my header widget (2012 Change) being on the left hand side.
-LK
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OK, I’m totally jealous now of your white and super pale gray behind the widgets sidebar. I know this is one of the options of the free Inuit Types Theme for WP.org installs. Do you think I could do the same with CSS or something close given my quite limited knowledge of CSS? If you think it’s doable then I would give it a try.
I like the way your site is shaping up.
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My blog is going through convulsions right now. The theme you see up is actually the full premium version of Inuit Types, which is quite different from the free version used at .COM – or for that matter the one I had up yesterday.
To answer your question though, most of what you saw on the latest theme with the white and pale grey could quite easily be accomplished with the free version – or at least something very similar. Right now the widgets get a background color whereas on the theme I’m using, it has a gradient background image. You could also go with a light grey solid color for the widget backgrounds, and then if you wished, put a darker grey top border on them and then reduce the white space between them (I think there is way too much white space between the widgets).
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Thanks for your reply. I’ll think about whether I want to plunge into this. I’ve experimented with having a white background to the widgets, but it looks quite boring so I would need to tweak far more than I have already. Having your perspective helps! Thanks.
Can’t wait to see where you go with your blog.
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Well, now I feel better in sending my friend’s email critique, since everyone here does see that Inuit Types could be improved, since we all say YAY for Richard’s tweaks. I’m sticking with it, even without the CSS.
-LK
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@TSP, Sandra & Lorna
I will be keeping the wordpress.com version on onecoolsite as it suits my content very well. I don’t expect Staff to make any additional change to the theme and I won’t be purchasing a CSS upgrade for that blog.
However, I’m also coveting the paid version and will be eagerly waiting to see the tweaks on TSP with TTTS in mind. What you refer to as a gray in my browser appears to be a very very soft dove gray with a hint of green ~ I ♥ it.
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I’ve actually switched back and forth between a light green and a white/gray scheme, so you two probably saw different skins. I even had up a blue skin for a while.
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And come to think of it, I had the the “gray” skin up for a while as well, which has two shades of gray.
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Does anyone know how to blockquote in Inuit? I asked on a separate post but no one replied. On pretty much every theme, it’s usually blockquote with either ( ) or [ ] as its brackets. Now the main complaint I’m getting from people is they can’t blockquote anymore on my blog. I’ve tested it myself in different ways and it never blockquotes. The cite = “” is added in which doesn’t work for either me or my visitors. Here’s what it looks like at the very bottom of Timethief’s blog:
Would I have to buy the upgrade to get around this? I would actually buy it if I knew how to code. I know basic html but that’s it. I would get rid of the page tabs at the very top, get rid of the RSS feed button at the top right, and fix the commenting where I can’t blockquote anymore. Now we add ” ” to simulate blockquoting.
I’m using Firefox 3.6.3 and Windows Vista.
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@pornstarbabylon: The html for a blockquote in a comment is this:
<blockquote>TEXT HERE</blockquote>
or this:
<cite>TEXT HERE</cite>
The result varies, depending on the theme. In Inuit the first code produces no differentation, the second just italics.Yes, you can correct that if you have the CSS upgrade, but of course it’s not worth buying it just for that.
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Thank you. Why would anyone do this? Make the commenting completely alien to most who comment. I’ve never even seen blockquoting like that ever.
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You’re welcome. Agree, it’s almost a mistake, since one expects some differentiation (but there are a couple of other themes with the same problem). I’d say send a Support ticket suggesting they correct it.
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So there’s no possible way of blockquoting with what the designer has there? Because if not, then what’s the point of even having it there? It’s like he’s taunting us!!
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b) Well your readers cannot (as long as the CSS of the theme isn’t corrected) but you can – see here:
http://wpbtips.wordpress.com/2010/05/23/html-allowed-in-comments-2/
But I wouldn’t bother using elaborate HTML when commenting; plain old quotation marks would do for me.I don’t know if you’d care to use this perhaps:
<code>TEXT HERE</code>
In Inuit it will make the text turn yellow.b) You mean the blurb that says what tags you can use? That’s standard (and a bit inaccurate) info, probably blindly added to various themes by WP, not by the original designers.
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It works! You rock!! It’s even yellow in IE which usually everything is different in IE. I’ll make a new post and probably a new page in the future about commenting. I’ll link back http://wpbtips.wordpress.com/ for helping me out.
I don’t know why all the HTML tags and attributes in the commenting area. People usually only use blockquote, underlining, and italics. It’s not like people are writing a thesis in the commenting area!!
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When I changed the line spacing on the widgets to 18 per TSP’s suggestion, it looks good….but the line spacing on the Tag Cloud is now wrong, all scrunched. I looked at the original CSS stylesheet but can’t figure out how to fix the Tag Cloud. Does anyone know how to fix this?
TSP – thanks for the suggestions for tweaking the theme to be a ‘little’ more like the premium theme. I will probably look for more ways tweak, but I’m generally pretty happy now.
Dev Blog…if you ever come by, just to let you know the e-books are a big help and I’m slowly learning a little more CSS. Thanks!
Thanks everyone.
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