Complete CSS Customization – an example

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  rosclarke · Member · Aug 2, 2008 at 1:41 pm

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  Mine has a new look to celebrate my first anniversary of blogging at WP.com

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  jomariajomariajomaria · Member · Aug 9, 2008 at 1:17 am

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  Ros, that’s sweet. I felt like Alice in Wonderland as soon as your blog was loaded.

  Sometimes I want my blog to look sweet. But I’m no sweet girl inside.

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  rosclarke · Member · Aug 9, 2008 at 3:33 am

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  Thanks. I think. ;)

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  jamalbooger · Member · Aug 12, 2008 at 6:49 am

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  Nice custom job. Complete newbie here and I don’t know how to expand the size of the vimeo window. I know the TINIEST amount of css. Is it just as simple as making the column as wide as you want it? I’m using the [vimeo "video number"] protocol. Looks so much better when the window is bigger like that!

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  vivianpaige · Member · Sep 11, 2008 at 2:16 am

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  I ported the customizations I did to The Journalist theme over to Sandbox. Still a work in progress.

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  rosclarke · Member · Sep 11, 2008 at 10:00 am

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  Good job, Vivian. Did you know that outside the main body of the blog it reverts to whatever background colour is set on your computer? Mine is pink and so it’s immediately obvious. I guess if yours is white you might not realise.

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  vivianpaige · Member · Sep 11, 2008 at 12:53 pm

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  Hmm – no, I didn’t know that. Is there any way for me to fix that? (Heck – I didn’t even know that you could set the background color on your computer :( How do you do that?)

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  rosclarke · Member · Sep 11, 2008 at 12:59 pm

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  I think it’s just

  body {
  	background-color:#ffffff;
  }

  If you’re on a PC using Windows, then in the control panel there’s an option called something like ‘Appearance and Design’. You can use that to set the colours for almost anything.

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  vivianpaige · Member · Sep 11, 2008 at 1:09 pm

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  Thank you. I think I fixed it. (And yes, I found the colors in the browser settings.)

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  rosclarke · Member · Sep 11, 2008 at 1:20 pm

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  Yes – looks good to me.

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  filipspagnoli · Member · Sep 14, 2008 at 7:41 pm

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  I did some work on the Tarski theme I use for my blog. I started without any knowledge about CSS and just copied and pasted code I found elsewhere, including this useful forum. Thanks guys. My blog is here: http://filipspagnoli.wordpress.com

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  vivianpaige · Member · Sep 15, 2008 at 2:16 am

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  More tweaks but for the most part, I think I’m done for now ;)

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  demkowychpost · Member · Sep 17, 2008 at 11:10 am

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  Dear Forum Participants,

  I recently started a blog and would like to split the blog page into two parts.
  How do I do that?
  For example, I would like the upper portion of the main blog page with posts to only contain certain news items. I would like the bottom portion to be dedicated to specific media news items.

  Is this difficult to do? I am not very familiar with CSS. What do you suggest?

  Thanks for your help.
  cd-

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  rosclarke · Member · Sep 17, 2008 at 11:27 am

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  @vivian. I really like the final look of yours. Good job.

  @filipspagnoli. Nice job. The left hand border on the page didn’t seem to fit too well with the overall look, but otherwise good job.

  @demkowychpost. If you have a new question you’ll be better off starting a new thread in the forum. This one is for links to completed CSS designs. But as a quick response I’d say that what you want to achieve is impossible here at WP.com. CSS only changes the appearance of a blog, not its functionality.