The Blue Obsession
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99% of themes with a customizable header is blue. Any particular reason? I want a theme with color choice and a customizable header. :(
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Blue for peace…Look at the clear sky…look at the ocean…look at the eyes (look at blue ones…)…look at the color of XP platform…and of course, listen to the blues…hehe
The world is ruled by the blues…. -
ambiru
connections
chaotic soul
cutline
pressrow
regulus
tarskithemes above are not blue in colour but have customised headers.
now you’re just plain exaggerating about 99% customisable header themes being blue. regulus is the theme that can fulfill your two criteria.
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ambiru – lacks widgets
cutline – the links are still blue, even if the header’s not.
pressrow – aqua links
tarski – blue green links, i don’t know if that’s different enough.7 themes out of 54 isn’t very many.
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IMO the more important part of what risenphoenix said was:
I want a theme with color choice and a customizable header. :(
Setting aside the “blueness” issue IMO this is a legitimate request. I support it myself and I note that several bloggers who responded to the introduction of the Garland theme stated they wished it had a customizable header too so I recommend sending in a feedback to staff. And I won’t be surprised at all if there’s also lots of support for a 2 column theme with the Garland style colour adjustment capability and a customizable header too. http://wordpress.com/blog/2006/12/12/new-theme-garland-and-rockin-color-picker/
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Very True. Would love to see the color option for the current themes. Or more new themes with this Color Option (like Garland Style)
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All the requests for a customisable header for Garland boggled my mind a bit, as I was under the impression it was a fluid design and you can only really do custom headers on fixed-width themes…
It wouldn’t be that difficult to create a fixed-width theme with colour options and a custom header (you could even let them change the basic layout, <i>a la</i> Sandbox, or choose the font). I’d make it myself, if my PHP skills were up to configuring the options and it were possible to get it onto themes.wordpress.net ;)
However, if they ever did implement this Dream Theme, there is a substantial risk that half the userbase would switch to it and the other fiftysomething themes would look a little redundant…
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An Ode to K2 Lite (that’s bound to gag some folks)
Oh am I blue
Well, you would be too
If the only theme you could find
With features of the right kind … was blue
You bet – it’s blue.But with header customizing
The results can be surprising
Try it and there’s no denying
You can change the color theme
To resemble your wildest dream
Yes, I’m telling you true
You can change the ugly blueThat’s why I’m not … blue ^ ;)
(With full apologies to jazz officiandos who recognize the tune. Truth be told: I sing far better than I type.)
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personally, the kubrick guy’s favorite shade of blue links makes me gag. as does the reliance on silk icons (but that’s another matter). is it really that much to request a theme that’s not blue and gray? or that at least has the option to change the link color?
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Adam —
I agree with you about the abundance of blue links. Is it possible to change link color via Custom CSS here — and if yes, how do you do it for CUTLINE — or is link color hardcoded into the templates?
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david –
newp, not hardcoded at all. try this on:
a {
color: #f00;
}
a:visited {
color: #900;
}
a:hover {
color: #fff;
background: #f00;
text-decoration: none;
}links have 4 states (also known as psuedo-classes): link, visited, hover, and active.
aby itself covers all 4 states.cutline only has colors defined for the ones i listed above.
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@boles and kamel
errr…please excuse me but …@ wank
You have said:
It wouldn’t be that difficult to create a fixed-width theme with colour options and a custom header (you could even let them change the basic layout, <i>a la</i> Sandbox, or choose the font). I’d make it myself, if my PHP skills were up to configuring the options and it were possible to get it onto themes.wordpress.net ;)
hmmm … php skills and themes wordpress.net
… the WM Dream Theme … make it so! -
Mwa-ha-ha! I didn’t even play around with it, Adam! I just copy and pasted your taste into my Custom CSS and — Oooo! The RED! My favorite color! Thank you! I love the change and getting rid of ole blue!
Can I gift you some credits? If you can use them here let me know the details to get them to you and I’ll shoot some your way.
Thank you!
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@tt –
sorry the thread’s a wee off topic. the problem is, themes like fauna and striped plus already provide everything on that wishlist. it’s not worth writing another theme from the ground up to do the same thing.@boles –
btw, if you don’t like the, er… christmas feeling of your post titles, you might want to add this as well:
.posts h2 a:hover { color: #fff; }if you’d like to donate, there are others far more deserving. i’m too afluent for my own conscience already, and i wouldn’t want this to become the sort of forum where credits become an incentive to give help.
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Hi Adam —
Thanks for that extra bit of code. I added and it looks great. Now everyone know precisely what is clickable or not. THE BLUE IS ALL GONE! THANK YOU!
The visited links were black and underlined by default in CUTLINE and that was hard for low-vision people to see the links if they wanted to go back and reread something they already clicked.
Are there any low-vision friendly themes?
http://alistapart.com/articles/lowvision
I’m not low vision but some of my readers are and making all templates “Disabled Friendly” is important, though I’m sure features like the new song thing have no chance of ever being open captioned for the Deaf.
I appreciate the link to Doctors Without Borders! It is a fine program and I will give them some money in your honor.
As for gifting credits for those who make your blog better — I can’t think of a better reason for giving someone credits!
I think there’s a difference between offering credits and trolling for credits — but I take your point that some might begin to feel it their right to get credits for helping someone else.
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“Are there any low-vision friendly themes?”
this was the best i could find just googling about for a bit. it definately seems to be a weak point in wordpress themes.
and yeah, it’s a great idea and a lovely gesture, but in the forums it definately has the potential to become quid pro quo.
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That’s a great link to a low-vision friendly template, Adam! The colors aren’t too bad and the design is sort of funky while still being accessible. I’ll suggest via Feedback that something like that might be added here.
I should’ve just sent you the credits and not asked permission! That would’ve removed your ability to turn me down. SMILE!
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