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sjeeps · August 2007

Blogger

sjeeps · August 2007

Screenshots: (Updated for Blogger 1.4)

Vanilla Blogger!

jstubbs · August 2007

Really really nice. Thank you.

garvin · August 2007

Yeah, I like it. But, why did you choose "Blogger"?

sjeeps · August 2007

@garvin
I couldn't find a better name!

Alslinet · August 2007

There seems to be some issues with the discussion overview plugin. You should check it out. There is a huge gap under the category name and the discussions.

There is also a problem when viewing member profiles.

Overall its the best theme on here.

Lussumo Bot · August 2007

Uploaded version 1.1 of Blogger.

sjeeps · August 2007

@Alslinet
"There seems to be some issues with the discussion overview plugin. You should check it out. There is a huge gap under the category name and the discussions."

Fixed by changing #Discussions float from "none" to "left" and adding a spacer to discussions.php to clear the .PageList

Screenshot: (Updated)

Vanilla Blogger!

"There is also a problem when viewing member profiles."

This's my screenshot: (Updated)

Vanilla Blogger!

And I don't see anything wrong with it, could you show me a screenshot for your site?

Lussumo Bot · August 2007

Uploaded version 1.1 of Blogger.

Alslinet · August 2007

Im running it at a rather high resolution so you might not be able to see it as clear. It looks kinda squished into the side. Just thought i would mention it while i was leaving a comment you see. And thanks for fixing my number one problem.

jsamlarose · August 2007

Great theme. Only thing I'm missing is a little colour. The default theme does a great job of managing a lot of content on a page and making it visually easily digestible. I'm running a blog as a front page of one of my forums, and with that in mind, this works really well, but the discussion page feels like a lot of undifferentiated rows of text. That's not a strong criticism, just some feedback. Good work, and it's great to have an alternative theme for one of my forum's that I'm actually going to use...

jsamlarose · August 2007

Ah. Just figured it out. I think the niggling thing for me is that links aren't differentiated until rollover - or at least there's an inconsistency between links in the discussion list (underlined) and links on the sidepanel (nada, except for the rollover effect).

sjeeps · August 2007

@jsamlarose
"Only thing I'm missing is a little colour"
Well, the main 2 colors I used is just black and white. However, changing a:hover color or .ContentInfo h1 color to whatever you want should take care of that "little colour" you're missing.

A new theme (Grace) should be out be out soon with more calming and soft colors, thank you very much for the feedback.

jimw · August 2007

I fixed a couple of things to make the css valid.

I changed all the
to
in the default.php.
In the footer.php file, I added a after the:
<p class="Vanilla"><a href="http://www.getvanilla.com" title="Get vanilla!">Vanilla Powered</a>

In the default.php, I changed:

 // some space
//$Panel->AddString('<br/><br/><br/>', 100); /*jimw - replace with h2 below*/
to
$Panel->AddString('<h2>Albums</h2><div id="AlbumList">',100); /*jimw*/

and added the following after the "foreach" code:
$Panel->AddString('</div>',100); /*jimw*/

Stash · August 2007

<code></code> is your friend...

sjeeps · August 2007

Thanks jimw, I've been trying to upload a new source file for 2 days with some CSS fixes and the missing "</p>" in the foot.php file but guess what? I'm having trouble with it again (I'm using 7-zip) and i get this: "You are not allowed to upload (Blogger.zip) the requested file type: application/force-download" Any idea?! :)

Stash · August 2007

I've also had this problem with both 7-zip and WinRAR. I guess something's changed in either the newer versions of these utilities and/or the config of the addons site. Sure is annoying though.

<assumption>Have you tried creating a ZIP file using the built in Windows zip creation?</assumption>

jimw · August 2007

I found a few more things I updated in the vanilla.css file for the "update checking" facility in Vanilla. There is an image that is used to show it is checking and then the add-on info is colored if okay or not. Here it is:

/* Update Check form */
/* remove jimw for new Update stuff in Vanilla 1.1.2
#Form.UpdateCheck p.Description {
padding: 0px !important;
margin: 0px 0px 10px 0px !important;
}
*/
/* Update Check form add jimw for Vanilla 1.1.2 */
.UpdateOld .Name,
.UpdateGood .Name,
.UpdateUnknown .Name,
.UpdateChecking .Name {
padding: 0px 0px 4px 23px !important;
}
.UpdateOld .Details,
.UpdateGood .Details,
.UpdateUnknown .Details,
.UpdateChecking .Details {
font-weight: normal;
}
.UpdateOld,
.UpdateUnknown {
background: #FFFFCC;
}
.UpdateGood {
background: #FFFB97;
}
.UpdateChecking {
background: #FFFEEC;
}
.UpdateOld .Name {
background: url(ico.alert.gif) no-repeat top left;
}
.UpdateGood .Name {
background: url(ico.check.gif) no-repeat top left;
}
.UpdateUnknown .Name {
background: url(ico.unknown.gif) no-repeat top left;
}
.UpdateChecking .Name {
background: url(progress.gif) no-repeat center left;
}

sjeeps · August 2007

@[Stash-]
"Have you tried creating a ZIP file using the built in Windows zip creation?"

Yep, and it didn't work either!

Stash · August 2007

Must be an addon site/browser problem in that case then...? Mark?

jimw · August 2007

I found a conflict with the date display and the CategoryIcons add-on. I have a fix for it in the CategoryIcons style.css file:


#Discussions li ul{
padding-left:2px; /*was 65 and moved from below where it was included with the Category items*/
/*jimw was 15 - changed for Blogger theme*/
}

/*Image overlap fix*/
#Discussions li li {
height:20px; /*jimw was 40 - changed for Blogger theme*/
}
/**********************/

.Discussion{
position:relative;
}

.DiscussionCategory {
/*width:60px !important;*/ /*jimw - removed for Blogger theme*/
/*height:60px !important;*/ /*jimw - removed for Blogger theme*/
/*padding:0; margin:0;*/ /*jimw - removed for Blogger theme*/
text-indent:-9999px; /*moves the Category name off the page*/
position:absolute; top:4px; right:2px; /*change to right if you want the image to the right*/
}

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