Continue reading »]]> Welcome to the ThumNet blog.

This is actually my first blog post ever, and I hope there are many more to follow!

As most of you already concluded this blog is build with WordPress

After the WordPress installation, which was very easy thanks to InstallaTron, I went looking for a theme. On the WordPress Themes page there was the blue Pixeled theme (version 1.9.2) which I really like, but there is one small problem. The developer (Sam) also created an earlier version of the pixeled theme (version 1.0) which was in green, but this wasn’t really up to date anymore. For this blog I wanted to give visitors the ability to choose between these two colors.

So I took the latest version of Sam’s theme and changed the following:

• copied both bgbody.png files into the images directory and renamed them accordingly
• created two partial StyleSheets with specific color settings, which will be loading on top of to the default StyleSheet
• picked up the styleswitcher.js file from A List Apart, which had to be updated because the attachEvent function isn’t cross browser compatible
• finally added the links to change the theme’s color in the header.php file

The links to change the color are located at the top right of the page, next to the text “color”.

Sources for the multicolor pixeled theme will be available through Sam’s or this site, but I first have to contact Sam to show him the modifications and ask him what he likes to do with them.