On discovery of the Flickr Group
“BinaryBonsai”
I’ve been further inspired by Mr. Heilemann to
start a support
forum for anyone who’s
ready to begin murmurings on subjects like Coppola’s CSS, installation issues,
Kalamazootopia’s menu system or the
like.I hope you find the
time to include a screenshot of your Coppola’ings. Please include a link back so
we can all enjoy. If you’ve made modifications, why not start a thread in the
(sparse)
Forum?Whats-more,
I’ve finished the readme, for a sneak-peak click
here.
There’s a space after every entry.
This is not a CSS issue, and the code in “Layout > Show Navigation Editor” is
fine, it’s space-less. For no reason iBlog is creating a space after every
category name in the navigation bar. You explain it, I can’t. Although I’m
working on a hack.
After Francis or Sofia, you decide.
I’ve made this template because I’m bored of bland designs and wanted to do
something interesting this Sunday. I hope this gives you immense joy, It gave me
a kick in the teeth a few times – yet it’s not as buggy as I would have thought.
Cross-browser, cross OS – I’m no “Web-Designer Genius” but I like
it.
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Today I wanted a change. It’s a Sunday, and on
the basis of purifying me broken iBlog template I decided I’d tweak around a
bit. If your not into websites, or their design, you won’t get this; webpages
just look different sometimes. Internet Explorer to Safari, Internet Explorer to
Internet Explorer, OS X to Windows XP, Firefox to Opera… who to please? Well,
some people hack-around and create a happy-medium, personally I don’t have the
know-how to sit down and decide where to put the <!–[if IE]>’s so
instead, I’ll start from scratch Keep It Simple Stupid, as they
say.So, there I am about to trash the
purple “Kalamazootopia” template when I say – no. I’m not making my site for
anyone but myself (is that a sad thing?) and I’m not bowing to anyone on
Internet Explorer… grow up, get Firefox.And
this is where Coppola came from, the five minutes in which I had a turn around
feeling “lets do something new” I scribbled (read on) the idea of a simple and
pretty little web
template…Scribbled; well, an artist
would rush for pencil or paints, I ran for Adobe GoLive and within 20 minutes
had created a cross-browser loving, gradient pending, super-fast rendering
beauty of a blog template. High on this idea, I turned to a
post I had read earlier this morning about a really neat (and free)
iBlog template, with 6 flavours, some ‘fella just made, no money involved, he -
like me – is fed up of seeing the default iBlog template so he created a
rights-free (or creative commons licensed) template. Whatta’
guy!Moreover, as a Bonsai fan-boy I want to get closer
to the Heillman inside
me, a free download-able, semi-supported, easily understood template is what I
wanted, is what I’ve created… so this is my Kubrick. Ladies and
gentleman I give you – Coppola (beta
v.0.1).
Read On »
An iBlog Template Set and Stylesheet
that I’ve created from the inspiration of many fine weblogs, and current blog
trends. Simple? But you want to know how it can help you, right? Well, it’s all
about aesthetics really, if you write great content no-one will belittle your
blogging skills because you use a default template, I know that. But, this is
free – and I think it’s a tad better than the default – so take five minutes and
install this wonderfully simple
template.Coppola will
work with already established iBlogs (reset preview state and preview), it also
works with iBlog right out of the box – from new. You can modify what you will,
moreover what you
can.Coppola is also
supported, for now – if you have problems, I want to help you make the most out
of iBlog, so e-mail
me. I’ve also set up a Group
on Flickr. There you can post your screenshots of “Coppola” and discuss with
others modifications and frilly bits… I hope we can make the most of that
wonderful resource.Also,
see: Coppola v1.0 on
Flickr. A short note-filled
screenshot of this version of Coppola, add your comments if you
please.