Musings from Ari's dad

Feb 25 2010
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The beauty of services like Tumblr and Posterous is how easy they make it for average joes like me to publish their tumble/v/pic/b/…log. I only recently created my own tumblelog and wanted to add a few items such as social networking links, different backgrounds etc. In researching my blog theme I decided to use the Letterhead theme by Bill Israel.

I love that theme but wanted to take it to the next level with additional customization. And so was born Just Right. Just Right offers the following additions.

A hybrid liquid-elastic layout to gracefully handle browser window resizing and font size modifications
Customizable background for the sidebar
Customizable image and text for an About section in the sidebar
Customizable icons, links, alt-text and tool-tips for

3 popular social networks: Twitter, Facebook, LinkedIn
Mailto, your blog’s RSS feed and your blog’s Archive

Customizable icon for the search button
If you do customize the icons be sure to provide any accreditation in the footer of the blog page via customizable text and link for the source of your icons. If you wish to use the default icons you need not take further action.
Customizable footer text or HTML
Ability to turn off the link to this help post.
All customization is available via the standard Customize drop-down menus offered.

Finally if you need to further customize your blog, simply click on the Customize > Theme > Use Custom HTML button.

You are also free to build upon this theme and create your own. Any accreditation if deemed worthy would be appreciated.

Enjoy!

The beauty of services like Tumblr and Posterous is how easy they make it for average joes like me to publish their tumble/v/pic/b/…log. I only recently created my own tumblelog and wanted to add a few items such as social networking links, different backgrounds etc. In researching my blog theme I decided to use the Letterhead theme by Bill Israel.

I love that theme but wanted to take it to the next level with additional customization. And so was born Just Right. Just Right offers the following additions.

  1. A hybrid liquid-elastic layout to gracefully handle browser window resizing and font size modifications

  2. Customizable background for the sidebar

  3. Customizable image and text for an About section in the sidebar

  4. Customizable icons, links, alt-text and tool-tips for

    • 3 popular social networks: Twitter, Facebook, LinkedIn
    • Mailto, your blog’s RSS feed and your blog’s Archive
  5. Customizable icon for the search button

  6. If you do customize the icons be sure to provide any accreditation in the footer of the blog page via customizable text and link for the source of your icons. If you wish to use the default icons you need not take further action.

  7. Customizable footer text or HTML

  8. Ability to turn off the link to this help post.

All customization is available via the standard Customize drop-down menus offered.

Finally if you need to further customize your blog, simply click on the Customize > Theme > Use Custom HTML button.

You are also free to build upon this theme and create your own. Any accreditation if deemed worthy would be appreciated.

Enjoy!

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Feb 13 2010
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  Tumblr and a whole lot of CSS 2 over two days  

I only just started a tumblelog and have fallen in love with the service. In the last couple of days I really wanted to get some control over the theming of my site so I decided to dive into making a theme. I started with Bill Israel’s beautiful Letterhead theme and found myself drawn deep into CSS. After approximately 20 hours of figuring out visual formatting models and the quirks of CSS and browsers, I am finally pleased to have completed the first draft of the theme. Visually it is not very different from Letterhead but introduces a hybrid liquid/elastic layout to better deal with font and browser-window resizing. I intend to add support for social media follow/subscribe links due to their reigning popularity.

The only reason that I can think of for having spent so long on this is the relative ease with which one can create a really powerful multi-media content presentation system. I think Tumblr is a great service. I tried Wordpress about a year ago and did not find it as flexible.

Thanks Tumblr!

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