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Bonus Post: New Theme

I’ve installed a new theme (F2, the successor to the Fluid Blue theme that I’ve been using for a while now), and made a child theme from it so I could include my icon. Let me know if you see any problems with it.

12 Comments

  1. Ploni Almoni says:

    The subtitle to your blog has it’s tails to “p” and the bottom of other letters cut off by the “Home” box on the bar. I’ll send you a screenie.

  2. Head Geek says:

    Yes, I see that too. Not sure what to do about it yet, or even if anything needs to be done.

  3. Ploni Almoni says:

    I don’t know, it lacks polish I guess. Nothing “needs” to be done…

  4. Head Geek says:

    Seems a waste of time to learn CSS just to fix that.

  5. Ploni Almoni says:

    Yeah, CSS is a bear.

  6. Andy says:

    Though this is a good theme – it is not updated to be compatible with WP3. The author does not respond to any support requests – and there is no forum also that self-supports this theme. So in a way, you are on your own. Unless you are a programmer and/or understand PHP well – this theme would (virtually) put off your website appearance by a decade.

  7. Head Geek says:

    It seems compatible enough to me. I haven’t seen any trouble with it in the three weeks I’ve been running it, except the slightly-too-small subtitle area described above. I’ve never had to ask for support for it or its predecessor either.

    As for the rest: I am a programmer. I don’t know PHP, but programmers are well-known for caring a lot less about how something looks than other people. ;-)

  8. Ploni Almoni says:

    I wouldn’t use this theme on a professional site, because the font problem makes it jar a bit, but other than that, it looks good enough for a site that mostly caters to friends and people who stumble by. :-)

  9. Head Geek says:

    To each his own. If this were a professional site, I might just fix the problem. It seems to just be a size problem on the subtitle field, not a font problem.

    Then again, I might still use it as-is. It looks a lot more professional than some professional sites I’ve seen recently.

  10. Ploni Almoni says:

    I like the colors of the theme….

  11. Anup says:
    Seems a waste of time to learn CSS just to fix that

    @headgeek I guess you are not using the latest version of F2. The latest version incorporates the ‘menu’ system of WP3.0 You can check that on my website.

  12. Head Geek says:

    @Anup: You’re right. The latest version hasn’t hit the WordPress servers (yet, anyway), so I didn’t know about it.

    @Ploni: The updated theme didn’t fix the header, but while I was picking it up I noticed mention of a settings page for it. There was an option there for the height of the header, so I was able to adjust it. :-)

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