I'd like to thank everyone for their interest in this new theme for MT and I hope the little tutorials I've been blogging about the last few days have been helpful.
I've had requests for Mid-Century as a community blog and adding userpics to comments, but besides those things what else do you want to do with Mid-Century?
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Mid-Century is awesome. But what do you think of a fluid version of the theme which can adapt to Subnotebooks' (eg. ASUS Eee PC) low resolutions (maybe not 640 in width, but at least 800)? For example: third column moving under the second one, text in the gallery widget positioned under the image and not on the side,... by Bye
I was looking at this template set for a site I run, and one thing occurred to me.
I will have no use for the recent entries column. In most of hte pages/layouts, it's dead space. Can I eliminate that totally, and reallocate that space to the column that has categories and monthly archives in it? Give the main content column more breathing room.
Be nice if it was a fluid template as well. Any chance of these? If so, how would I go about it? Danke.
Hey Jim,
Just wanted to drop by and say thanks for this theme, I am using it as the starting point for my as-yet-not-public site and it really is a nice layout.
So many thanks, nice work, and thanks for releasing it!
Jim:
Just wondering - how do you do the Related Entries section of your entry page? Is that a collection of MT tags, or a plug-in?
Thanks!
I would love to see a pages sidebar section. I've been trying to integrating it on my own, but have quite a time getting the styling to work.
Also getting the easy to inset certain pages/folders in the top-nav and exclude them from the sidebar like we have it in the Pro-Template set is really, really nice.
Hi Jim, me again.
One suggestion for the next release would be to include the compressed version of the jQuery javascript. That should help speed download times a bit.
Or, even better, may be to use the hosted version Google now offers. For example, for jQuery 1.26, you can link directly to their copy hosted at http://ajax.googleapis.com/ajax/libs/jquery/1.2.6/jquery.min.js
One benefit of that method is that as more and more sites use Google's copy, there's a good chance visitors will already have it in their browser cache, and so they won't have to download it again at all.
Cheers,
Jason
Love it, thank you!
My suggestions:
* gallery to (optionally) display a random image rather than the same starting asset
* categories and monthly archives to optionally be drop-downs instead of (sometimes lengthy) lists
Thanks so much for all your work on this Jim -- I'm using it on my site and am thrilled with how it's come together. :)
Hi Joe. Do you mean having one wider right column instead of the two narrow ones? That's easy to do since the Gallery widget already spans those two columns. You can just relocate all the stuff you want to keep to just under the galley widget and I think that would do the trick.
Thanks for this template Jim! :)
I have the same problem as "berberich" about the "Related" Entries" part that doesn't show up on my entry pages. Any answer about that question?
Thanks a lot,
What I meant was remove one of the right hand columns and reassign that space to the left side larger column. I want one of the right hand columns left alone, and the one you remove, give that space to the larger, left area.
I'm a major fan of fluid layouts as it is, but when I don't have one, I want maximum space allocated to the "content" part of the layout.
If you gave me a 100% width, fluid layout, I wouldn't care about the triple columns. But since there isn't a fluid one, I need more real estate for my actual content, and I'd want essentially "wide/thin" (like the 6A naming convention goes).
My only complaint so far is the lack of an overall footer template module (i.e. something that either contains the tag or is used right before it). I created my own to put the Google Analytics JS code into.
Mid-Century is just great! But I have one issue. I cannot leave a comment using non-Latin characters (for example: Cyrillic). I receive message “Your comment submission failed for the following reasons: Comment text is required”. What seems to be a problem here? Editing comment to Cyrillic in MT works just fine.
Thanks!
Is there any chance of a fluid layout happening with this? I really like the flow of this site, but I don't like hte fact that my actual data is so squashed.
If you have a long entry, when you start scrolling down, you just have all your data on a small part of the screen, and all that wasted real estate where the other columns were - not to mention the borders on the side.
I really would like to use this skin, but if I can't get a wider layout, I won't be able to. I was planning on launching the site I was using this for in a week or two. Is there any hope?
Hi Joe. A fluid layout is a lot more work, but a wider left column and a single right column is easier. If you tell me what column sizes you want I can probably do a post describing how to do it.
Great theme Jim -- thanks!
I would like to second that request for instructions on how to widen the left column. I've managed to widen the column by adding to #header-inner, #content-inner, #footer-inner width and #alpha width, but have not yet figured out how to widen the blue boxes that the comments appear in.
Should the current comment templates already support the 'Sign in to comment, or comment anonymously' bit as implemented on this site?
I have Allow Registration checked and OpenID and Vox selected as Authentication Methods for now, but at still not getting the sign in prompt on my site based on the standard release.
Love the template set.
It's nitpicking, but the metadata part of each entry can get messy with heavy tagging and if you add stuff to it. Some additional styling might help clarify.
E.g.: moving the comment balloon to the right and using hanging indents or somesuch to indicate separate sets of information.
there's a problem with .entry-more: it's not Georgia, it's Arial
have a nice day!
It appears that the search-results page is styled incorrectly for no results; the text ends up left of the style's normal text box.
As you can see in my blog I successfully added in few minutes userpics and gravatars using this plugin
http://wiki.movabletype.org/Using_local_and_Gravatar_userpics
(upload in plugins directory and then paste code in your individual comment template, then rebuild)
have a nice day
I'm very much liking Mid-Century, Jim. A few comments/thoughts:
* In general I love the typography, but I find the white space between posts a little lacking - there isn't quite enough visual separation to my eye. I may play around with this, and with line leading (a hair too large?), and see if I can find something more to my liking.
* Action Streams integration. Rolling Action Streams templates into the standard distribution would really showcase what Movable Type can do.
* The plugin appears to conflict with the Notepad Chaos template set: http://mt4.juneeonline.com/babble-on/archives/2008/09/notepad-chaos-a-template-set-for-movable-type.php
See thread here:
http://forums.movabletype.org/2008/09/template-set-woes.html
* The header bar is very small, and the graphic even smaller. I'm assuming that replacing it with something personalised is trivial, but that might make a handy tutorial also.
Please, don't take this as anything other than constructive criticism. This is a lovely template, and a dramatic improvement on most previous MT standards.
Jim:
Love it! I have adopted a few things to our own needs at:
cogsnob.com.
What I really want is more of the "social" aspects that some of the new standard 4.21 (proff pack) forum templates include. Such as:
-Userpic for commenters
-Registered User Bio Page (via userpic or username)
-Voting
-"Following" and "Followers" aspects of comments
I have tried to integrate the best I could but it soon became a giant hairball.
Yeah, I'd love to know what the ETA is on the community version. I'm managing several blogs for a newspaper in NoCal and we're just getting set up. I tweaked another 4.2 template but this is far superior.