Free Blog Theme: Blue Grace

27 Comments

1. Fubbe

   Dec 5th, 2008

   Hi, love your theme!
   I really want to implement chess viewer deluxe on my site, but can't figure out how. Any tips anybody?

   Heres the link . At the bottom of that page is a link to a page explaining how to implement the viewer, but I can't get it to work. I don't know where to past the code, basically.

   I know this is way off topic, but don't know where to ask.....

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2. Bithead

   Nov 28th, 2008

   Excellent theme. My thanks and compliments.

   I did have Amazing Grace up for a while, because I really liked it's layout; It only took some minor changes to make it fit my content. And here they are as adapted to the Blue Grace theme.

   Janey, I note in the comments here, apparently had the same width problem. To solve this, I modified the sidebars as follows:
   -=-=-=-=-=-

   #sidebar-left
   {
   background:#F8f8F8;
   border:1px #ccc dashed;
   font-size:1em;
   float:left;
   margin-left:10px;
   width:150px;
   padding:2px 1px 0px 1px;
   }

   #sidebar-right
   {
   font-size:1em;
   float:left;
   margin-left:10px;
   width:140px;
   padding:1em .0em 2em .3em;
   }

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   That works OK for what I'm using for ad templates and content. Your mileage may vary. It does get the display width down to one wide on a 1024&768 screen which was my objective.

   I also added non-standard blockquote calls..(Nested blockquotes... yeah, I know it's not kosher, but frankly until the figure out a way to deal with that issue, I go with what works)..

   -=-=-=-=-=--
   blockquote {

   display: block;
   padding: 2px 10px;
   font-family:Courier;
   background-image: url(http://bitsblog.florack.us/images/bq1.jpg);
   border:2px dashed #DCD8A8;

   }

   blockquote blockquote {

   display: block;
   padding: 2px 10px;
   font-family:Courier;
   background-image: url(http://bitsblog.florack.us/images/bq2.jpg);
   border:1px dashed #DCD8A8;

   }
   blockquote blockquote blockquote {

   display: block;
   padding: 2px 10px;
   font-family:Courier;
   background-image: url(http://bitsblog.florack.us/images/bq3.jpg);
   border:1px dashed #DCD8A8;

   }

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   Of course the objective with that is a different color layout for each nest of blockquote. The code allows for a triple-nested quote block if things that that bad. (Usually, they don't but...) This allows for a more easily understood discussion thread.

   I also added a (slightly ham-handed) mod to more obviously mark links on the page. Again, visibility issues for my readers. Because of where I had to place that call, it makes some of the more graphic links..(for example, the header and footer) look a little less smooth than I'd like, but I can live with that for now. I wish there was a way I could apply that heavier underline just for the body of the posts and not the 'static' parts of the display. I suppose there is a way, I've just not found it yet.

   As I say, I roiginally had AG up. I Loved the layout of the original Amazing Grace, but was a little nonplussed with the color. It looked realy nice, but some of my older readers were having some problems with it from a readability standpoint. When I found Blue Grace online, I was very pleased indeed. That smile got wider as I realized it was going to be only some very minor work to transport the mods I'd added to the original AG theme, over to BG.

   After Christmas... and the added expenses that brings, you'll be getting a donation from me. Again, my compliments.

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