clutterlovers

OWN:G is finally online! w00t!
We are proud (and relieved) to announce the launch of one of the core OWN INDUSTRIES websites, namely our showcase of graphic and design work – OWN:G – which as of now is live online. We would like to take the time here to give you a few insights into the [...] Read more »

Finally finished the redesign and tweaking for clutterlovers, if you are reading this you will see the results before your very eyes. This customization makes heavy use of “mozilla” specific css tags (rounded corners) other browsers won´t be able to display them but this should not detract from your “User Experience” here at clutterlovers… Let´s [...] Read more »

Thought I would gather a few of the pages that I have recently discovered while looking for resources and infos relevant to the tweaking and customizing on clutterlovers. Some of the pages are in German, some in English – BTW that will be a common occurrence here on clutterlovers, due to the fact that my [...] Read more »

Due to the “construction site testbed nature” of clutterlovers we are adopting the Kubrick 4 column theme for now – and as a basis for our  future tweaking issues… some of the stuff we learned in the clutterlovers v1 debacle has proved useful in the facelift over at ownage…

my screen resolution…
1024×768…

Visit ownage here–> OWNAGE
a further [...] Read more »

Continuing with the documentation “the making of clutterlovers” we will begin importing the xml export from version 1.
A couple of points to note:

Up to now only 1 post and 1 draft (this post)
All plugins loaded and working
no categories created to avoid conflicts
gallerys present in folder-> wp-content but not imported into NGG

.. beginning import now.
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In this section I will be documenting the changes made to the style.css document for the clutterlovers theme, simply writing the details of the alterations to each tag would be pointless (you probably have another theme and although most css files use the same tags there are always subtle differences, custom tags and so on. [...] Read more »

In this episode we will begin the initial changes to the blogs css styling:
Colors: The blogs colors are defined within various tags, you will need to go through the tags one by one and change the values to your desired colors. (color tags are always preceded by “#” and look like this #ff9900 or this [...] Read more »

Authors Note: Almost as if we had had a premonition about this theme… It proved absolutely incompatible to wordpress 2.6 – adding dynamic sidebars would not have been the problem… the problem was the php querys used in the themes templates to <wp_ “API”> are not compatible with the “runtime” of wordpress2.6.
more info and help [...] Read more »

The previous post dealt with the (mostly) technical aspects of themes, here we will be looking objectively at the general look and feel before going on to the preparation for customization.
First lets check the criteria:

3 or 4 columns
Fixed width <1024px
Clean Typography
Useable structure

The Candidates:

Default “Kubrick” not really a candidate but our starting point…
Stitched has all [...] Read more »

In the simplest sense a Theme is also a plug-in for your Blog. Themes belong in the “wp-contents/themes/theme_name” Folder.

Be careful about themes “wrapped” in two folders after you unzip them, they won´t work
A theme without css is broken – throw it out!
A theme that needs to change file folder permissions is a security flaw – [...] Read more »