SurplusMeat is now running version 2.0.3 of WordPress. I haven’t noticed any bugs or problems yet. I’m still running version 2.0.2 on my local development box and on MetricsPad.
Also, I switched my theme to Hemingway Reloaded by WordpressLab. I chose it for its simplicity and liquid layout. Aside from the mods I’ve already made, I plan to give it a little bit more color and usability. I’ve already started by giving some of the anchor tags (and their hover states) the traditional blue hyperlink color.
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No offense to the original designer or all the “designers” out there, but why do they insist on making links hard to spot quickly. The blue text with underline just screams click me. Well, it doesn’t have to be blue, but you get the point. And while I’m on my soap box, why do so many sites make their default font size so small. For example, I visit Shaun Inman’s blog on a regular basis, and with each visit, I have to press Control + (plus sign) a couple times in Firefox to get the text size big enough so that I can actually read it. I understand that my monitor is set at a high resolution (1600×1200 at least), but Shaun is a smart guy. He can figure out that I’m at a high rez and offer me a different style sheet that makes his great content more readible by default.
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thanks for this. Is there any chance you can tell me what you change in the CSS file to make links appear, either on the homepage, or just to change their colour in general?
much appreciated!
Peter,
I probably can\’t give you a quick answer on this. I am assuming by your question that you either are not very family with CSS or you haven\’t poked around the theme\’s PHP files. If it\’s the former, then I probably can\’t give you a quick and easy answer. I\’ll try below, but it may require a full length post to fully walk you through the process.
In the style.css file, look for the \”a\” markups. If you are new to CSS, you can visit HTML Dog or google for one of the many tutorials sites out there.
Here is one example to change the default link colors via CSS. On line 49-51 in the Hemingway Reloaded style.css file, the default link color is set to black (#000000).
a{
color: #000000;
}
To change it to blue, you simple change the color attribute:
a{
color: #0000ff;
}
That\’s easy, right? Well, not really. You have changed the default link color; however, with CSS, markups can be nested. Again visit HTML Dog for an explaination on grouping and nesting in CSS.
For now, in style.css, search for the phrase hover. This is the style that will be applied when the mouse hovers over the link. Wherever you find hover in style.css, you will probably find the style for the normal state of the link. Just look up a few lines for a similiar markup block.
Again, I apologize that I can\’t give a more specific answer. Aside from the initial learning curve of CSS, I have also hacked my style.css (and the other pages in the theme) so much that I just can\’t tell you which line to change, etc. I will see if I can do a full write up sometime in the next couple of weeks.
Good luck and congrats on being the first comment!
-Veha