This bit of digital paper

April 29th, 2006
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I have just made the first version of my first serendipity theme/template. I call it (creatively enough) “brown paper”:-).

The entire purpose of making a new template was to make this website my own bit of work. I am never fully comfortable with using somebody elses work. I find myself itching to customise it and make it my own.

I wanted to make my website look like a stained piece of yellowish paper. The paper had to be yellow because I think that makes it easier to read text. The stains would give it a well-used feel. I have successfully tested it in Firefox 1.5, Seamonkey 1.0, IE 6.0 and Opera 8.5. It displays too wide in IE 5.5 causing the horizontal scroll bars to appear.

EDIT: I have completed this template. I fixed a few bugs relating to comments display and admin new entry preview. A few other minor changes were also made. Its available for download here and via spartacus.This theme is a modification of the default s9y template. See the included credits file for details.

6 Responses to “This bit of digital paper”

  1. Neut says:

    This one is nice! I added it to my fav s9y-themes. Thanks.

    Posted on 29 Jul 2006 Reply
  2. Michael says:

    Very nice. But you should update the link in the credits section, which has become invalid. I changed it on my site.

    Posted on 08 Jul 2007 Reply
    • Abdussamad Abdurrazzaq says:

      Glad you like it.

      Perhaps you downloaded the theme from spartacus :) . The version on this site has always had the correct link. The one on spartacus is a few versions old.

      Posted on 09 Jul 2007 Reply
      • Michael says:

        Hi again,

        indeed, I downloaded it from another site. I think it was s9y.org, though.

        I have a little improvement for the theme: There is a typo in line 13 and 15 of entries.tpl. You are opening a h4, but closing a h3, which prevents the site being valid XHTML. It can of course be corrected easily :-)

        Anyway, thanks again for the nice theme! Greetings from Germany, Michael.

        Posted on 11 Jul 2007 Reply
        • Abdussamad Abdurrazzaq says:

          Thanks for pointing that out. I will update the theme soon.

          EDIT: Theme Updated

          Posted on 11 Jul 2007 Reply
  3. sodgeblog says:

    Passend zum Thema dieser Seite verwenden wir nun das "brown paper"-Theme von Abdussamad Abdurrazzaq. Es waren ein paar kleinere Änderungen notwendig, aber dann wars perfekt.Ich hoffe, es gefällt!

    Posted on 11 Jul 2007 Reply

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