liverpoollad

You’ll find the answer here, just type in add second sidebar wordpress into google or the search engine here

Nice theme and obviously done by someone good at what they do. The graphics look professionally done and I like the way people combine the same background colours to acheive that spillover effect – I don’t know the terminology but Zen Garden do a lot of it.

My own alterations would be to make the sidebar contents centre, not to the left. I don’t mean the text, just the contents – or resize the boxes, although you’d be adding more work on your plate that way.

I’d also tidy the search bar and the other feature you have below the banner, perhaps a div containing them could be coloured, or an image added behind them. Seems to bit a bit of empty space there.

Maybe you could push the content more to the left, but thats not a real issue.

The time and date stamp looks real nice.

It works fine in IE7.

It might be the visited state in the Css, or the active.

Or some setting you put on the background image.

I think its a good blog indeed. Nothing fancy there but it all seems in proportion and is nice and easy to read and so on.

Never checked to see if the xhtml and css verify, but if so, its a winner. Bit of a retro look, but if people are reading then I’d sooner be reading something in plain black and white.

I’d move the contact details in the banner to the sidebar, and have a simple banner up on top instead of the square red box with the title in it.

It does not looks right.

If the box was spread out to cover the top, it would look nicer.

I’d also scroll the background because it is offputting having the background scroll, this would not be the case if you fix the background. Try it.

Apart from that, its a good blog. Maybe use bigger font like someone else said.

Looks like you brightened it up quite a bit, looks like a thoughtfully designed blog and the banner seems to fit in pretty good.

A really nice blog, looks like a nice bit of artistic work on the banner links. Nicely done there.

Great work, nice and easy to read and navigate. A real nice addition for the WordPress community to choose from.

WordPress themes are getting near the staggering figure of 1000 free releases. That is amazing when you look back to the days it started.

I’d like to see an example of the first ever WP blog. I beleive it was a single index.php file.

The blog is not bad, I would not go digging into my pockets to pay people to make it look better, especially if you are still at school!

Why not just ask what you need to do to make it better. Go to the theme releases forum and I’m sure you’d be helped there and the money you save could go towards something useful.

Good luck.

Moshu, thanks as ever for pointing out the things a lot of us overlook.

You are spot on there. I did make that mistake when first using Css, instead of using divs. I even used headings to put images in with no text.

Luckily, that issue is not there for the two themes that are going to be released,they have the H1 header in the header.php.

Its my personal theme that has the H1 header taken from the header and slipped to the top of the rightsidebar. I can ammend that, and will have little choice.

DomFontana, the theme is easy to ammend if you know a little css and know where to look for the php call ups for the extra sidebar. I’ve grouped all the Css elements so you could easy wipe out all the sidebarright stuff and just add on the pixels you’ve taken to the content and the other sidebar. Its fixed width, so should be easy. The only difficulty with Joe and Jill public ammending it right now is that it uses an image to make the three columns. Not everyone will be able to ammend that so I’ll do a two column theme also which would be easy for me seems as I can close my eyes and picture each php file and know the css inside out, almost.

The first letter Css rule does have issues in IE6, these are fixed in IE7 beta, and are ok in FF and Opera and others. I don’t need the capitalised letter but have managed to get it working on IE6 on another site, non WordPress.

Cheers to everyone who has helped me along the way.

This is a real classy three column website/blog.

Top marks for these releases.

I think it looks good, but the sidebar seems to be floating to the right in FireFox which is an issue I guess I’d sort out first.

I finally discovered what the problem was. I’ve taken the blog apart, and must have tried 1000 tricks to make the blog obey me.

My Waterloo began because I’d used a first letter rule in the css, and for some wierd reason, the site crashes in IE6 when I have the css with that particular rule, and then try and add the <!--more--> code in a certain manner.

Take the first letter rule out, and viola, no crashes. Besides, the big capital letter on the start of each paragraph is not really suitable for a basic news website/blog theme. Artistic blogs, maybe.

I’ll spend another week or so testing the theme out, but seems like I’ve finally discovered the culprit.

I’m testing the theme with WordPress 2.03, and have made a few changes in it. You can check out the public theme 1 and 2, plus the Liverblog theme which has a few differences in the layout. The rest I have are all just the same theme with a different banner. None of those banners are going to be included, but it shows you that you can have a nice big banner, and throw the H1 and description in the sidebar.

The aim of the theme is allow a 3 column news (or whatever) website/blog to be used with minimum graphics and nothing fancy. Easy to read and navigate is my pledge on this one.

I’ll do a nice info file, and make it theme switcher and calendar enabled. Needless to say it verifies in the css and xhtml.

I’d call it a decent bare bones three column.

Fixed width, works on a 800 resoultion (not many 3 columns do this) and is fine in IE7 as well as FF and Ie6.

Any suggestions for getting it ready would be appreciated.

https://www.kirkbytimes.co.uk/wordpress7/

Try unistalling it, and reinstalling it.

I’ll have a little test of this one. Not seen any plug ins that go this far, and looks like a lot of work has gone into this one.

I’m not sure what it actually does, but am willing to try it out.

Cheers for this one.

Update – You need to have canvass enabled themes to run it, but there are themes for download and I’m sure this will extend to the popular themes here, and any of our own, if this is a winner.