Themes not made for a Mac users?
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Hi. New to the site – I’m an OS X user and all the themes look like crap on all of my browsers. They are either jumbled or full of errors. Any other Mac users out there and how do you get around it? I just bought the upgraded CSS today – thinking I could get a pre-made layout – but no dice there either.
Boo!
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You can use Sandbox and drop pre-made CSS into it from what I understand. Or you can tweak any of the existing themes until they look good on your Mac; that’s what CSS is for.
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i’m on a mac and it looks good! not sure why you’re having problems..hmm. hope you get it sorted.
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Thanks, guys, for replying. I’m not sure why my templates keep getting screwed up – not cool.
And I tried doing that, raincoaster, but I’m not getting it : /
I want this theme: http://teo.esuper.ro/wordpress-themes/mental-disorder/
does any one know how I can get it?
Thanks in advance if any one happens to reply.
-Ah-
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You can’t add your own theme’s here. You could make a request for it. You could also use the Day Dream theme, Upload a custom header image and then change the colors accordingly.
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mark is right. You cannot just add other themes. If you are using Sandbox you can tweak the look almost infinitely, from what I understand, but you’re not using that from what I understand. You cannot change the functionality, you can just COPY the look of other things. Do a search of the forums for Sandbox and you’ll find the best information on doing that.
To reiterate: you cannot simply add other themes. You can imitate them, if you copy some of their CSS and write some adaptation yourself.
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Well that’s a cryin’ shame.
I think I may have flushed $15.- of good, credit card money down the pipes. Most of the themes on here are really lame and I’d rather be kicked in the elbow than try and figure out this whole CSS crapperoni.
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Sorry to sound like a complete dork all around. I’m not quite grasping this whole . . thing.
Ha, I haven’t even gotten around to figuring out HMTL. But I do know how to look up color codes and paste them in there. That’s as cool as I’ve gotten. Envy and applaud, right?
Oh . . on to more searching and confusing.
Thanks for all your loverly help,
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Wow. Now my page has a bunch of flowers all over it. So weird considering I never selected or saw this layout in my life.
Okay, who is trying to charm my skirt off?
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It would be easier to tell you if you’d leave us a link to your blog so we could see it.
Yes, you have to learn CSS before you can use it. It’s not prefab at all. The #1 complaint we get from CSS upgrade purchasers is that they don’t know how to use CSS. There are CSS tutorials at http://www.tizag.com that will walk you through the basics.
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My blog is wichcraft.wordpress.com. Is it not auto-linked through WP forums? I guess I assumed.
And I’m sure you regulars get newbs by the flock, same question – same day, so I’m doing my bit. I’m reading up, not abusing the system.
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It’s not autolinked; you have to go to your Profile page and put the link in there.
No worries. There’s a LOT to read about CSS. Timethief’s linked some good tutorials in other threads, so follow those up. I’m only learning about it myself. sulz has put up some CSS skins herself at http://sulz.wordpress.com/ so ask her how she does it.
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It looks like a nice template to me; simple and streamlined. And I don’t see flowers anywhere at the moment.
One thing I’d suggest if you still have problems is to try checking your blog in Browser Shots. It’ll show you what your blog looks like in other browsers, using other operating systems… it’s not perfect, but at least it’ll give you an idea of what other people are seeing when they look at it, and if it’s different to what you see.
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Themes shouldn’t be switching spontaneously without you changing them in the presentation panel, nor should they all be screwing up in all your browsers. If this were a Mac issue, a lot more people would be complaining about it, so I’m inclined to think there must be something wrong with your blog on wordpress’s end. Contact staff through the ‘support’ tab or email support at wordpress.com.
The designer of Sandbox recently ran a competition which resulted in nearly fifty new skins. They may require some tweaking to work here as we’re running on an older version, but even if you don’t like any of them they should give you some idea of what can be done with the theme.
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thanks for the link love, raincoaster. =)
i’m using the biology skin ported to sandbox by wank herself. i have very basic knowledge on css, but wank’s directions are easy to follow and luckily i didn’t face any problems. basically it’s possible to use css without the knowledge as some are just plain copy and paste.
reading this past thread may help:
https://en.forums.wordpress.com/topic.php?id=9415&page&replies=12 -
I have a mac, and haven’t had any problems at all. I usually use Firefox, but things look ok in Safari too.
I have both PC and mac, and frankly prefer the Mac :D
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I can see the difference now that I am using a Mac, it looks better in Safari than most browsers, seriously. I’d prefer Safarri over FF.
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The only problems I have experienced with Safari is trouble uploading headers to the Kubrick theme, and *sometimes* (rarely) the post kinda gets mixed up with the sidebar.
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WordPress looks better and behaves better for me in FireFox as opposed to Safari. That is in spite of my being a Safari fan.
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Yes; wordpress.com has been designed with Firefox in mind, so if it’s at all possible to use it then it’s a good idea to do so.
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