Templates

This is my second theme for the serendipity blog engine. Its got a shiny banner graphic and comes in three colours.

Changing colours

By default the theme is in blue but you can change it to red or green as well. The first step is to enable smarty templating for the categories plugin using the "configure plugins" option in serendipity administration. If you don't do this the xml feed icon for categories will not appear correctly. If you have s9y 1.1 you can easily change the theme's colours using the "manage styles" option in the administrator interface. A few other options are also available for users of this version of s9y.

If you are using an older version of s9y then you will have to edit the index.tpl file in the theme folder to effect colour changes. In this file just add or at line 35 where it says Close this wrapper div at line 64 by adding a

Update 30 July : I have fixed a number of bugs in the latest release of this theme including entry preview in firefox and other modern browsers.

You can download the theme here.

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.