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Retro-inspired TextPattern theme
After last week’s look for the classic theme, I decided to branch off a little bit and create a retro-inspired blog theme for Textpattern. It takes cues from Textism, Cardigan Industries, and the classic Textpattern theme.
I’d love any feedback and criticism. What looks off? What’s missing? What do you just not like? What would be cool to have?
Here’s the deets: This is the homepage, everything is dynamic (Site name, slogan, publisher, category list). Archive, Links, Contact, and Search all go to new pages.
Last edited by agovella (Yesterday 17:50:27)
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Re: Retro-inspired TextPattern theme
Nice. Does the links menu item show anything different to the links in the right-hand sidebar?
agovella wrote #339929:
I’d love any feedback and criticism. What looks off? What’s missing? What do you just not like? What would be cool to have?
It’d be cool to have some image/video width classes in the css to indent / outdent or full-width images / figure elements. I’m sure you know what you’re doing, but there are various tutorials for that online depending on how you have set up your css.
Another idea: if you style your base styles using CSS custom properties, you can allow the theme user to change the styling by putting overrides in a Presentation › Styles stylesheet (e.g. @:root { —body-font: font-name; } and assigning that stylesheet to the relevant section in Presentation › Sections.
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That’s lovely and clean. Fab work to update the classic elements of the design.
Edit: P.S. from a branding perspective, it’s Textpattern, lower case ‘p’ :)
Last edited by Bloke (Today 08:05:55)
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