Comments on: Word Press Themes, CSS and a request for help

By: Seb Crump

Seb Crump — Tue, 13 Feb 2007 08:58:54 +0000

You’ve probably got passed the point for these links, but I thought I’d post them anyway in case they’re useful for you or others considering doing the same.

Firstly, I think I know that you don’t use a Mac, but the folowing may be useful from a process perspective if you substitute in equivalent Windows software: Develop a WordPress theme on your Mac

Secondly, Smashing Magazine has several articles that may be of interest, including 83 Beautiful Wordpress Themes You (Probably) Havenâ€™t Seen and 53 CSS-Techniques You Couldnâ€™t Live Without.

Hope the comment gets through this time - I’ve tried a couple of times, but it’s just disappeared - maybe becuase I was putting too many links in?

By: Seb Crump

Seb Crump — Mon, 12 Feb 2007 14:31:12 +0000

Sorry for being a bit slow on this one, you may have already got past needing these links reading your more recent post on this topic - but I thought I’d add them to the mix in case they’re useful to anyone else considering this course of action…

Firstly, I think I know you’re not a Mac user (so you’d need to substitute your own Win equiv software), but for the process of things this article may be of interest: Wordpress Theme Development Workflow for OSX.

Secondly, Smashing Magazine have an article listing 83 Beautiful Wordpress Themes You (Probably) Haven’t Seen. They also had a great bookmarkable resource round-up of 53 CSS-Techniques You Couldn’t Live Without

By: JackP

JackP — Tue, 06 Feb 2007 07:13:49 +0000

Gareth,
I’m looking for the left and right columns to be a percentage with min- and max-widths - and the middle column to take up the rest of the space. Ideally I’d have the middle column having a maximum width so that on some super-wide monitors, the display doesn’t fill the whole screen…

I’ll probably be in touch for help a little further down the line, then

By: Gareth Rushgrove

Gareth Rushgrove — Mon, 05 Feb 2007 21:15:22 +0000

When you say elastic do you mean elastic in the Patrick Griffiths sense of using em's, or rather using %? I can knock you something up if you like? Alternatively I'd start with the classic faux columns article by Dan Cederholm. In terms of any order columns have a look at Any Order Columns on Position is Everything or if you agree with Shaun that using floats to do this is a little unstable then you can try Clearing absolute positioning with a little JavaScript. Drop me an email if you want an assist - always glad to help and layouts one of my things.