Something up with Andreas09?
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Just to update, I have been working with the Andreas09 template all afternoon without any problems at all. I have finally got my blog up and running and I’m really pleased with it. I cant thank you guy’s enough (The WordPress team), WordPress is truly awesome! It just blows Blogger out of the water, but the key to this success for me is not just the mind blowing functionality but also the excellent layout and design of the Andreas09 template, without it WordPress would not work anywhere near as well for me. In addition, a couple of my friends have just signed up, again using the Andreas09 template with no problems at all. Thanks again WordPress team :)
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I’m always interested in what it is about each theme that draws people to them; if you have the time, would you mind explaining just what it is about Andreas09 that you like? It certainly has its loyalists, and I’d like to understand better why.
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I will probably write a short post about the Andreas09 template sometime soon as it is relevant to my fellow students. The main reasons for my use of the template are: 1.The body and content of the page is 100% of the browser window, this draws you in and you feel more involved in the page, the effect is rather like watching a movie on widescreen TV in full widescreen mode rather than using the 4:3 aspect ratio. 2.The columns are fixed which is great because you wouldn’t want widgets bleeding all over the screen when the browser window is resized, but the main content, or element one is completely fluid, which enables it to be read on devices with small screens such as PDA’s etc. 3.The layout of the template, with header, footer, central content and columns either side follows the Sklar screen map perfectly. 4.The location of the navigation bar for pages etc also fits within the Sklar screen map and feels very natural, it is easy to see because it is usually the second element that your eye scans when reading the page. Hope that helps….
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Thanks, very enlightening. I appreciate the time you’ve taken to respond in such detail.
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There’s certainly something special about Andreas09. A few months ago, I found a site offering free XHTML 1.0 Strict compliant website templates and for some reason the Andreas09 one caught my fancy.
It just ‘works’.
(P.S. I’m new around here and to blogging in general. So I don’t know if there’s a connection to the template I mentioned and the one which this thread is about.)
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If you look here -> Presentation ->Themes -> Andreas09 then you will find the theme as adapted to run on this multi-user blogging platform. It may not be exactly the same as what you expect. Try it out and see.
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@ancientscribe
Yes, Andreas09 is special and your blog looks so good in the Blue colour option that I’m tempted to switch from Black. Both Andreas, the designer, and Anslie (who developed Andreas09 for WP usage) have sites, if you would like to express your appreciation. What’s not to like about Andreas09? I provide material for a patient community many of whom suffer visual and cognitive impairment. I appreciate the extra width of the line measure for longer posts but on some screens the default font size is a little on the small side. Even with Text size increased from browser this still gives a large number of words per line – often twice what I would aim for if I were designing for print. I’d like to see a slightly larger default font size, otherwise, this is one of the most flexible and visually appealing designs and with horizontal tabs and a three column layout, it feels and functions a little more like a webpage than a blog. Perhaps glitch in display of Categories will be resolved today. -
Question: How does Jaya Jha get the “Categories” to appear in those elegant little boxes on the site jayajha.wordpress.com ?
I read what meagenda wrote [“in Andreas09, when Categories and Archives are added via the selector, they display as boxes not as text on background. This means that they take up far more room down the sidebar.”] but couldn’t seem to get my lima-bean sized brain to grasp it. :c
I have always adored this theme (never saw any other that drew me away). However, recently I see the “Recent Comments” that are listed on the left column under “Categories” are over-running the right edge of their column? This is in Firefox.
(If I had a complaint about Andreas09 it would be the tendency for it to go askew in IE5 as used on old i-Macs.)
Grateful to wordpress community and to Andreas Viklund and Ainslie Johnson.
bklynmusic
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