A need for minimal & flexible-width themes

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    ednisley · Member ·

    Would you be so kind as to offer new themes along the lines of “Vigilance” in flexible width?

    I dislike forcing my readers to peruse text crunched into a skinny little column down the middle of their wide monitors. Everybody has a wide monitor these days, so let’s use those pixels! Indeed, many of my topics involve single-line equations that don’t work well when wrapped, so I need all the width I can get.

    I’m writing a tech blog, which means themes with pens or girls or bananas or flowers or shattering colors aren’t appropriate. Alas, the theme library has a grand total of ten flexible-width layouts, most with full-frontal design foo-foos.

    Basically, I want a minimal-clutter theme with two columns, flexible width, and simple fonts. The content is the important part and the theme should stay out of the way.

    “Silver is the New Black” works well, but the body font renders as either monospace (ouch!) or tiny in various browsers. Fix that and it’s a win.

    “WordPress Classic” seems to not work well (at least with Firefox 3.0). The Recent Comments widget doesn’t render within the (rather cramped) right-hand column, because they’re offset by the width of the avatars; perhaps that improvement killed the layout?

    Hobson’s Choice is “Shocking Blue Green”. Now, if I could choose a less shocking color, that’d be great.

    Now, admittedly, I could pay for custom CSS, but I do not want to venture into the website-tweakage morass. I have enough to do without learning all that stuff, then debugging my efforts on all the browsers that come along. You folks know how to do that perfectly well, far better than I ever will.

    What say?

    Thanks…

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    panaghiotisadam · Member ·

    For a theme that “stays out of the way” I would choose Rubric: you can change the header image.

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    ednisley · Member ·

    Looks reasonable, although the Javascript (I suppose) required to nail the sidebar gradient to the screen makes it rather poky for scroll-wheel maneuvering.

    I’ll try it for a while (with a custom header image!) and see how it works.

    But it’d still be nice to have more dead-simple flexible-width themes!

    Thanks for the pointer; I’d completely missed the custom image tag…

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