I have a set of ZenPage themes

I revised the Effervescence theme to work specifically with ZenPage. Theoretically it already works with ZenPage but the layout was a mess when I plugged it in, so I've done some work on it.

And I added two light colored themes to the set: white with blue, and a girly-pink theme. I moved the menu to the left. And I used a table to control the layout a bit, although I realize that the CSS purists don't like tables but I think that purists in any field tend to be somewhat impractical.

This is my sample site where I've been testing it. I can send you a zip file if you would like to add it to the themes.

http://www.stevens.daffydilly.com/index.php?p=gallery

Comments

  • Actually there are three extra themes with a white background: white/pink with pink all the way across the middle. Or white/blue with blue background in the sidebar only. Or white/mauve with a mauve gradient GIF background in the sidebar. So those are three variations to play with.

    And, it's easy to change the color scheme just by doing search/replace for one color in the CSS file.

    I tried to change the ZENphoto copyright at the bottom to say ZENphoto/ZENpage but I never could figure out where that code was coming from, so I couldn't revise it.
  • acrylian Administrator, Developer
    And I used a table to control the layout a bit, although I realize that the CSS purists don't like tables but I think that purists in any field tend to be somewhat impractical.
    I don't agree with that...:-) Use tables where you really need to present table data..:-)

    If you don't mind my opinion, I don't think that the white background goes well with the colored boxes. Too much contrast for my liking.

    But anyway, if you like you can attach the theme to this page on trac: http://www.zenphoto.org/trac/wiki/ZenphotoThemes (you need to register on trac first). We actually don't update the page itself since that is now run by Wordpress but we still use it as storage for third party themes. Then we can take a look at it. You may give your mod a proper name or suffix.

    Regarding the zenphoto/zenpage copyright, that does not really matter since Zenpage is officially part of Zenphoto from now on anyway.
  • Oh, I wouldn't use these color themes as is, for myself. The main purpose in sharing this is for the work I did in the layout. That part might be more difficult for some people to do. It's a little easier to change colors.

    I left off revising these templates at a certain point -- and my own site has had a ton more work done to it, tweaking in so many ways I don't think I could repeat all I've done.

    So... the template package is mostly for the layout. But I can tweak the colors a bit. A soft lavendar background might look nice on that mauve page... with white around the photos...
  • acrylian Administrator, Developer
    All right, it's your theme mod. You can do and provide it as you like and your resources allow. Every theme is welcome.
  • never mind...
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