Carl Did it again

You want templates? Go to our nice neighbor and partner in crime, Carl Galloway. He has created a new theme called "bubblegum". Drop him a note to say how great and appreciated his work on Serendipity Theming is!

Also be sure to check out his whole page. It contains a lot of helpful information about styling and themeing Serendipity.

Thanks, Carl!

New theme 'blix'

Thanks to lordcoffee from our forums, we now have his new ported theme (original theme created by Sebastian Schmieg) called Blix in our Spartacus/CVS repository. It should be available within the next few hours. Users who can't wait can already download the theme from the forum's link above.

Many thanks for keeping the theme contributions coming in so many and often, all you guys! It's great to show how great and flexible the Serendipity templating technique actually is. :-)

Serendipity Theming Documentation

And now, to complete the trifecta of posting: there has been some recent activity on the Serendipity Wiki, improving the themeing documentation.

First is this Smarty mini-tutorial, covering the basics of Smarty syntax, looping, and {if} statements. It actually answers a question from the forums about adding separators without getting an extra separator at the beginning or end of the list.

Second is Carl's masterpiece, a fully documented stylesheet for the Default theme. This is an absolute must-read for anyone interested in creating new Serendipity themes. Anybody interested in modifying just a portion of their blog can benefit, too.

Let the theming begin!

More Templates by Carl Galloway

Carl is really on a roll. Over the course of two weeks, he's released three new themes.

The first, Softened Cells, is actually two themes in one. The second is its fraternal twin, called Sunset. Both provide rounded corners and include a horizontal CSS-driven menu. Both are taken from a web designer's imagination at Open Source Web Design.

The third theme is also from an OSWD idea, and is called Reflections. It's a nice grey that doesn't feel cold and hard. It's also full of little innovations, including full styling, rounded corners, CSS menus, and a fully commented stylesheet.

Theme requests wanted!

Since Carl has been so hard-working on template ports the past time, he now feels quite well (and comfortable) with Serendipity's cool templating and customization features.

He has asked in a forum posting if there are any theme requests from users, for any theme ports or special ideas. If you have a wish, please go to the forums and post there. I'm sure Carl will have an open ear for you all.

Many thanks to Carl for being so generous with sharing his creativity!

New Themes Galore

It seems the christmas time is a productive time for template designers. :-)

Thanks to Carl Galloway we have a new template called "Connections" (a template port from an existing theme), which looks very decent.

Another theme called "Glossy White" was contributed by Christian Hoffmann (Lord Coffee) from our forums.

Last but not least, we have a new template called "Styled Bar" from Mads Sigvert. This one comes with several colorsets in the subdirectory (blue, green, purple, red, turqoise - each in a "glossy" and "non-glossy" version).

Have a try at those themes in our CVS repository and available via Spartacus! Thank you all for contributing your hard work!