Comments on: Custom CSS frustration http://blog.thestateofme.com/2009/08/27/custom-css-frustration/ IT mixology and other thoughts about tech, life the universe and everything Fri, 03 Feb 2012 10:17:56 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ By: Luke Hall http://blog.thestateofme.com/2009/08/27/custom-css-frustration/#comment-888 Sun, 01 Aug 2010 15:55:21 +0000 http://blog.thestateofme.com/?p=150#comment-888 Not a problem, hopefully it will help you with any CSS work you take on in the future. I hope the relaunch goes well.

]]> By: Chris Swan http://blog.thestateofme.com/2009/08/27/custom-css-frustration/#comment-886 Thu, 29 Jul 2010 07:51:37 +0000 http://blog.thestateofme.com/?p=150#comment-886 Wow – thanks for that. I’ll check it out. It’s a shame that we’re days away from a web site relaunch that’s going to change the look of our corporate site.

]]> By: Luke Hall http://blog.thestateofme.com/2009/08/27/custom-css-frustration/#comment-885 Thu, 29 Jul 2010 01:27:24 +0000 http://blog.thestateofme.com/?p=150#comment-885 Hi Chris, I found this post following the “custom CSS” tag while browsing for other people using the feature. I’ve been tweaking my own designs for a little while and have taught myself CSS the hard way: reading tutorials and reference pages online. The feature on WP.com is completely un-supported so you did well to take such a dive into the (relatively) unknown. I’ve been working on CSS skins for the Sandbox theme and I pieced together something that looks a little like your corporate site, just to see if I could. I didn’t spend ages on it or check very thoroughly and I know that it is almost a year since you made this post but I thought I’d share anyway just in case you find it useful. You’d need to switch to the Sandbox 1.6.1 theme and add the CSS code to the original stylesheet. I will post it below because I couldn’t find a contact form or email address, apologies if it doesn’t get formatted correctly.

Luke

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body {background-color:#cbcbcb; color:#5e5e5e; font-family:”Futura-Medium”,”Futura”,”Trebuchet MS”,sans-serif; font-size:62.5%; margin:0;}
#wrapper {margin:0 auto; padding:10px; width:700px; background-color:#ffffff; font-size:1.4em;}
a {color:#5e5e5e;}
a:hover {color:#999999;}

div#container {margin:0 0 0 40px; width:450px; float:left;}
div#content {margin:0;}
div#primary {float:right; margin:0;}
#secondary, .skip-link {display:none;}
#footer {margin:0; visibility:hidden;}

h1#blog-title {margin:0;}
h1#blog-title a {display:block; text-indent:-999em; background:#fff url(“http://www.capitalscf.com/content/sites/all/themes/capitalscf/images/capital-scf-large-logo.png”); height:150px; width:500px;}
#blog-description {display:none;}

div#menu {background-color:#ffffff; font-size:1.1em; font-weight:bold; text-transform:capitalize;}
#menu a {font-family:”Helvetica Neue”,Arial,sans-serif; color:#999999;}
#menu a:hover {color:#ff0000;}
#menu ul ul {display:none;}

#nav-above {display:none;}
h2.entry-title {margin:0;}
h2.entry-title a {color:#5e5e5e; text-decoration:none; font-family:”Helvetica Neue”,Arial,sans-serif;}
h2.entry-title a:hover {color:#999999;}
.entry-date, .entry-meta {color:#999999; font-size:0.8em;}
.entry-date abbr {border:none;}
.entry-meta {margin:20px 0 50px 0; padding-top:10px; border-top:1px dashed #999999;}

#primary h3, #primary h3 a {font-family:”Helvetica Neue”,Arial,sans-serif; margin-bottom:10px;}
#primary ul {margin:0;}
#primary ul li {list-style-type:none; padding-bottom:8px;}
#primary ul ul ul {display:none;}

#primary a {text-decoration:none; color:#007600}

body.page textarea#comment {width:450px; font-family:”Helvetica Neue”,Arial,sans-serif; font-size:0.9em;}

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]]> By: Chris Swan http://blog.thestateofme.com/2009/08/27/custom-css-frustration/#comment-295 Sat, 29 Aug 2009 16:13:55 +0000 http://blog.thestateofme.com/?p=150#comment-295 Vromano – I already posted everything useful that I found, which I don’t think does actually amount to a HowTo.

If you want to save that Mac from the lake then I’d suggest just going with the the Vigilance theme and customising that a bit. At least it lets you have a logo in the header, and choose your own colour scheme.

]]> By: vromano http://blog.thestateofme.com/2009/08/27/custom-css-frustration/#comment-294 Sat, 29 Aug 2009 14:28:01 +0000 http://blog.thestateofme.com/?p=150#comment-294 so can you help me figure out HOW TO??? before I shoot my computer and throw my mac in the lake?????

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