White and Wild is a Winner
The results have been posted for the Textplates Textpattern Template Competition and my White and Wild template was awarded second place. The winning template, Serene is quite nice.
I was pretty surprised to see myself in second place. But damn! Just missed a 30GB Video iPod! There’s always next time. I have a feeling when the second round comes up there will be a lot more entries.
Comments
22. March 2006
That is wonderful! I was really impressed with your template, and am very glad you got recognition for it! :)
24. March 2006
Congratulations! Proof that nice and simple design goes a long way… almost to the top! There is always next time…
Carlos
27. March 2006
Congratulations from me too! Your design is running smooth, fast and simple on my site. As I said before the necessary template tuning was minimal and it was only necessary to go through all the settings, plugins and template files once to have a pretty perfect working template.
My wish list is small and it is more something for a W&W evolution and in no way intended to be criticizing the actual template:
* (optional) sidebars
* (optional) predefined forms for the sidebars (about, linklist, referrer, ...)
* consolidated template settings in a file before installing (i.e. how many articles on homepage)
* alternatively store the template settings from a TXP extension to the database and have your own W&W template variables
* I miss the link categories on the links page.
* Links don’t show up in the Live Search
* (optional) I’d love to have section blocks which show the most recent n articles with excerpts and the older ones with headlines. Right now I have no idea myself how to do it :-)
* section navigation with drop down menus
I know that some of the issues could be solved through some in-depth reading of the TXP manuals and support forums. But as a TXP beginner I would be so lucky to find some cooking recipes or ready made solutions!
Keep on the great work. You have created something which is definitely worth to be developed!
29. March 2006
I am planning to use the WAW template on a project. The default behavior for the Posts By Date part of the Archive page seems to be generating a 404? Click on the category link ‘CSS’ (eg ….archives/article/?c=css) under each ‘Post by Date’ to see this.
29. March 2006
I forgot to say that this only happens on this page http://themes.wilshireone.com/waw/archives/?c=css
when a category has already been selected from the archive page.
18. April 2006
How to get a bigger comment editing area?
A short tuning tip for W&W and for the standard TXP behaviour for the ‘your comment here’ presentation:
I have added the lines
@ .txpCommentInputMessage {
width: 710px; height: 300px;} @
to the comments section of the CSS WAW_default.
The result is a really nice, big and inviting comment editor area instead of the small 25×5 area which TXP offers by default.
You can see it on my page (click on my name above).
18. April 2006
SORRY, the Textile interpretation for ‘code’ is a little wrong here on the page or it’s a Textile bug.
It’s only:
.txpCommentInputMessage {
width: 710px; height: 300px;}
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