The Zeeb Theme for WordPress has been released and is ready for download at http://wordpress.org/extend/themes/zeeb

I worked out a few bugs in the style and hopefully squashed them all but if you use Zeeb you may want to subscribe to my feed to get notifications of any changes or updates.

Happy blogging!

I think it’s finished! Rose City Gardens is ready to release Zeeb, a black and white, dramatically “zeebish” theme with a flexible width and wide right sidebar.

Zeeb includes a jQuery-driven tabbed panel in the sidebar with Tags, Recent Posts and Recent Comments, and a 3-level page menu with a nice fade effect, also jQuery. Like all of the Garden’s themes, it is very search engine friendly.

Those who want to wait should hold out for a day or three, as it’s really almost ready to be released (famous last words?) I think it’s ready, but I’ve certainly been wrong before, so I’m releasing it now to interested parties as a beta. I’m still going through looking for bugs and ways to improve. If you’re interested in trying out Zeeb on your own site, please contact me and I’ll send you a download link.

Happy blogging!

This should be approved soon – stay tuned! Also coming, updated stylesheets for Green Apples and Tickled Pink.

This theme is pink, white and gray, fresh, sassy and feminine. It’s ideal for a personal blog – pink but not too pink, sweet but not saccharine!

I’ve already noticed 2 tiny flaws in the list styling. I’ll post the correction here but wait for more feedback before I upload an updated stylesheet. Read on to see how you can fix it (if you have nested lists; if not, don’t bother)

Open style.css

On line #228 find

background: url(images/bullet.gif) no-repeat left;

Replace with

background: url(images/bullet.gif) no-repeat top left;

On line blank line #231, add:

.post ul ul, .post ol ol {
font-size: inherit;
}

On line #406 add
#sidebar ul ul {
margin-bottom: 0px;
}

Any other questions or problems, please feel free to contact me – here, in the forums, or through the WordPress.org site!

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* {
margin: 0;
padding: 0;
}

This wipes out all of the default margins and padding your browser assigns to things like paragraphs, lists, headings and the like. The reason this is important to me is that I like for my sites to look the same, cross-browser, as much as is feasible. The defaults in different browsers are not always the same, and this rule allows ME to decide, not a browser company, how my site will look.

This tag means that you will have to assign margins and padding to each element yourself, but with CSS, that’s a job you’ll only have to do once – and if you change your mind later, you can always just change the stylesheet to change all the pages on your site!

Somebody slap me! I released a theme that was not quite ready. There were a couple of bugs in the CSS, which I fixed, and I also added tiny little arrows in the post navigation bar. The menu was not displaying correctly in Internet Explorer 6 (it’s always IE6!) and that should now be resolved.

My apologies for any inconvenience caused!

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Description

This is a very clean and simple three-column, liquid width theme. It is widget ready and has a two-level CSS dropdown top menu bar. The green apples photo in the header is by the very talented Jean Scheijen.

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Download and Install

Download Green Apples WordPress theme. Unzip and upload the green-apples folder to your wp-content/themes/directory.

License and Terms

This theme is released under the GPL. If you use the Green Apples image for anything else, please credit the photographer.

And…please do something nice for someone. Call your mom!