By: sb158

sb158 — Wed, 29 Jul 2009 02:26:13 +0000

Oh, boy, I hardly know where to start. The sidebars are just image links. I took screen captures of the sites to which I wanted to link, and just used the standard html “image as link” format. The list titles are just an image I made as a transparent png and use as a background image in the CSS. The header was actually adapted from another theme, I believe it’s called Sliding Door. I searched the support forum and found a way to incorporate it into another theme.
The partly-transparent blog title comes from the code of the Atahualpa theme.
I use the Firefox browser; you can get a couple of very useful add-ons. One’s called Firebug, the other Web Developer’s Toolbar. You can use them to look at the code of a site and figure out how it works, or make changes on the fly to fine-tune your page. They are both essential if you want to play with changing themes and such. You should try it and compare my code and CSS to the original, then you can see more specifically what I did.
Mostly it was alot of reading and research, and a big mess of trial and error…the graphics were made by me using Paintshop Pro. I honestly doubt I could tell you what I changed. I just kept playing with the code and adjusting it until it looked the way I wanted. And, probably due to ignorance, I refused to accept “You can’t do that!” and kept at it until it worked. And, truth be told, I doubt I could do it the same way again. If I started over, it’d probably end up looking completely different.
One thing I would recommend is installing a copy of WP on your local machine and use that to tinker with. That way, if you screw up really bad, you don’t break your online blog. I found a tut here that shows you, very simply, how to do that. I would copy the relevant portions to a text editor like Notepad, play with the code, paste it back in, see if it worked, and if not, I’d copy it again and keep tinkering till it got right. Took me quite some time, and there are still things I’d like to change, but there are only so many hours in a day…
Any more questions, feel free…

By: Russ Husted

Russ Husted — Wed, 29 Jul 2009 00:45:13 +0000

I really just wanted to talk to you, in general, but this seems the only way (lacking a “contacts” or an email address… so…. I’ve been considering the Wasteland theme and started looking at how it looks for other blogs. YOU … well, I can hardly recognize it for all your modifications! I’m not quite sure what you kept. But I’d like to know how you’ve done all these changes. I esp like your sidebar stuff (so much, so many images, special catagory/headings, and the addition to the title bar, etc.) Maybe I could communicate re that?
And…. great site…. and content!
Thanks,
Russ

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