Emerald City Theme, in Web Design, on The Playground

I changed my theme today for this weblog from Ruby Slippers to Emerald City. Both themes were designed by Jesse Gardner and are entries in The Style Contest. Because Jesse is one of the organisers for the event, his entries are not eligible for a prize. A shame, because they're very well done, and the stylesheets in particular are an excellent resource for anyone who wants to try their hand at designing a new theme. His description of the new theme is a classic:

A subtle cross between Oz and O'Reilly. This particular flavor tastes like fruit punch and watermelon.

The Emerald City theme is exactly the same but with colour changes.

A subtle cross between Oz and O'Reilly. This particular flavor tastes like limesicles and green grass.

I've had to slightly change the style-sheets to include a couple of additions of my own, mainly the styling for the subscription block and the SCode block at the end of the comments. I've also added image floats to the stylesheet.

The little date block doesn't display the same in Firefox and Internet Explorer. Of course, IE stuffs this up and I'm still thinking of a hack that will make it look right.

2 Comments

Toni said:

This last problem with the date displaying differently in Firefox and Internet Explorer turned out to be an issue with where the code was placed in the index template. The instructions were to find the date header and replace it with the code provided. I did exactly that. However, this has been niggling at me and so I went to Jesse Gardner's blog where I saw the same date style and checked the source code on his site and compared it with my own. His date was placed after the entry ID, different to my own which was above the entry ID. After changing my template, the date box is now displaying the same in both browsers.

May 20, 2006 10:50 PM | Reply to this Comment

Jesse Gardner

said:

It's a strange feeling seeing my design put to such hard work as holding together your site. I guess you could call it a healthy dose of self-deprecation, but suffice it to say, I like what you've done with the place.

Cheers!

October 31, 2006 3:37 PM | Reply to this Comment

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