1) How come Sven Niemetz's nifty trick regarding the picture upload wasn't integrated into Blue Grace? Your theme is amazing, however the picture upload is a big pain-in-the-butt when I combine high-resolution pictures using Free Online Tools (Lunapic.com, etc.)
Can you, or Sven, release a short guide for Blue Grace and/or integrate it into a new DL version?
2) How can i get my sidebar widgets to be like yours? What's code must i insert?
And…. great job :-) I've learned A LOT from you by looking over your code and I'm very thankful that you're responsive and have built such a great template.
Just helping Vlad with some answers. If you be more specific about the widgets I can maybe answer your question.
Regarding the images…. Vlad and I are working on a nice set of tutorials addressing the most commonly asked questions and other interesting topics…. well done, yours is now on the list.
Pertaining to the Widgets, i was simply curious what the code is that Vlad is using so that the titles and sidebar widgets look more professional / pretty and organized.
In my opinion, this should definitely be integrated into the new version.
With respect to the images, the girl already told us how to do it for the Amazing Grace theme – but i'm not that great at code, yet, since i just launched my site so i don't wanna fiddle with stuff too much (i already disabled the Search Bar and can't get it to work even when i reapply the code).
In any case, the 2 biggest improvements, in my opinion, would be:
1) "Automating" the picture process in the header so that it AUTOMATICALLY resizes the pictures and simply "plops" it in there by uploading it into the Images folder and saving the picture as a specific file path – that way it says us time AND it looks aesthetically much more pleasing than me combining 2-3 photos and cropping pictures at exactly 218px by 318px x 221px.
2) Better formatting the sidebar widgets so that it looks prettier.
3) Also, potentially highlighting posts in different colors (very light / transparent obviously), but… still have the last ~5-10 posts have a dim shade of highlight so that they're easily distringuishable.
That's about it.
Lemme know if I can help u out in any way – i've got a very large mailing list and will begin blogging regularly within the next ~2 weeks.
Vladimir’s WordPress Forum
Header Pictures & Better Formatting for Sidebar Widgets
17:55
18 February, 2009
David Jaffee
2 things:
1) How come Sven Niemetz's nifty trick regarding the picture upload wasn't integrated into Blue Grace? Your theme is amazing, however the picture upload is a big pain-in-the-butt when I combine high-resolution pictures using Free Online Tools (Lunapic.com, etc.)
Can you, or Sven, release a short guide for Blue Grace and/or integrate it into a new DL version?
2) How can i get my sidebar widgets to be like yours? What's code must i insert?
And…. great job :-) I've learned A LOT from you by looking over your code and I'm very thankful that you're responsive and have built such a great template.
That being said, things can always be better! :-)
David
http://davidjaffee.com
2:37
19 February, 2009
Brian
Hi David,
Just helping Vlad with some answers. If you be more specific about the widgets I can maybe answer your question.
Regarding the images…. Vlad and I are working on a nice set of tutorials addressing the most commonly asked questions and other interesting topics…. well done, yours is now on the list.
Take care,
Brian
3:22
19 February, 2009
David Jaffee
Hi Brian. Thanks for the speedy reply.
Pertaining to the Widgets, i was simply curious what the code is that Vlad is using so that the titles and sidebar widgets look more professional / pretty and organized.
In my opinion, this should definitely be integrated into the new version.
With respect to the images, the girl already told us how to do it for the Amazing Grace theme – but i'm not that great at code, yet, since i just launched my site so i don't wanna fiddle with stuff too much (i already disabled the Search Bar and can't get it to work even when i reapply the code).
In any case, the 2 biggest improvements, in my opinion, would be:
1) "Automating" the picture process in the header so that it AUTOMATICALLY resizes the pictures and simply "plops" it in there by uploading it into the Images folder and saving the picture as a specific file path – that way it says us time AND it looks aesthetically much more pleasing than me combining 2-3 photos and cropping pictures at exactly 218px by 318px x 221px.
2) Better formatting the sidebar widgets so that it looks prettier.
3) Also, potentially highlighting posts in different colors (very light / transparent obviously), but… still have the last ~5-10 posts have a dim shade of highlight so that they're easily distringuishable.
That's about it.
Lemme know if I can help u out in any way – i've got a very large mailing list and will begin blogging regularly within the next ~2 weeks.
David
http://davidjaffee.com
3:17
21 February, 2009
David Jaffee
thoughts?
15:35
21 February, 2009
Vladimir
posts 685
Hi David
You can find instructions for image rotator for version 2.7 here http://dkweaver.com/2009/01/am…..ge-rotator
And to answer all your "how come.." questions.. I simply don't have time :)
13:28
24 February, 2009
David Jaffee
cool :) i've learned so much from you.
thanks again Vladimir.