Sugar theme ready!
Jul 08Well, finally it’s ready, after quite a lot of work
Sugar is a free theme for XOOPS that supports 3 columns.
It features various modern techniques for the website which include:
* Rounded corners using CSS3 (no fallback for IE or unsupported, degrades gracefully)
* RGBA shadow for the avatars in the forum
* Alpha transparency when hovering over an image
It also includes custom PNG buttons for newbb as well as PSDs to make the theme easily modifable.
The buttons for newbb use the ElegantIcons released by Nick from ElegantThemes (http://www.elegantthemes.com)
The other graphics in this theme are the famous Silk icons by FamFamFam (http://www.famfamfam.com) as well as a photoshopped background by me.
This theme has been created using the blank theme by Kris_Fr.
There shall be monsters!
Jul 07Well, this is a song from Monty Python’s “He’s Not The Messiah”, and it’s a great one (well, actually, this movie has 2 songs in it- Chaos and Confusion as well as There Shall Be Monsters). It reminds me how far we humans have come in the past few years… Sometimes it really makes you wonder…
But enough about that
Enjoy your day!
Kevin
New design online…
Jul 07After a while, I thought I might choose another theme instead of Glow – and now it’ s so far with this theme called LightBrite – doesn’t it look awesome? And I totally love the tumblr-kind of layout. It’s awesome.
More information about Sugar: it’s getting a test run on the new site of NightQuest – when that’s done, and I’m happy with it, I’ll run 1 more test (since NightQuest has gotten several customizations) and it’ll be released to the public.
Furthermore, I got another post coming up…
Sugar theme
Jun 29Ever since the last few weeks, I’ve been working on something that I’ve called “Sugar”.
It’s my first theme based on the blank theme by Kris, which is a fantastic framework to work with!
Sugar is 100% XHTML 1.0 Transitional and uses some very modern techniques using CSS3 (such as: rgba shadow on the forum avatar, alpha transparency on hovering over images, rounded corners). This means that it won’t render as intended in older browsers like IE6 and IE7 – I don’t support these browsers anymore, but it degrades acceptable in IE7 (in IE8: the rounded corners aren’t working – IE doesn’t support it yet.)
Over the last few days I’ve worked hard to make the theme ready for release, and I think it’s nearly there – in a few days, it’ll be released – I just need to iron all small bugs out of it and it should be ready to go
If you’d like to check out the Sugar theme already, you’ll need to install it to your own site. You can get it from my Github (which you can find here). I already have a ZIPPED version ready for you which you can download directly from here. If you’d like to use the newest version, the bleeding edge version (in other words, the last one I published), you can get it by pressing on the Download Source button and choose ZIP.
I hope you like the theme… a little preview of the theme:

