Great theme - easy to use. After getting a request from some friends for an "emergency" site that their clients could look at, I downloaded Changeme and cranked on it for 2 hours to get:

www.designsbycff.com

My friends are thrilled. I think the only elements that I needed to get to that were not in the changeme.css file were the css elements controlling the blocks. I had to jump into style.css and grab them. Everything else works great and I'm going to use it again for a completely different look on another portfolio site soon.

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#3 css.zip1.8 KBAshokanKid

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Rob_Feature’s picture

Rob_Feature commented
Status: Active » Postponed (maintainer needs more info)

Thanks Fred...
What exact elements did you copy to changeme.css? I can envision including block titles, possibly. Let me know and it sounds like a good add.

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frednwright commented

Hey Bob!

Here is the sidebar element stuff I grabbed from style.css and added to changeme.css. I changed the background and border of the block to fit the color scheme I was using - may be helpful for someone else?

#left-sidebar .block, #right-sidebar .block {
background:#1F1949 none repeat scroll 0 0;
border:1px solid #E8B66F;
margin-bottom:20px;
padding:10px;
}

p.s. thanks for the great videocasts on mustardseed.com - you helped me figure out some jquery today.

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AshokanKid commented
Version: 6.x-1.x-dev » 6.x-1.0
Component: Miscellaneous » Code
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new css.zip1.8 KB

Hi Bob;

Another "Kudos to YOU~!" from my perspective. I needed a quick and clean theme in order to bring an ancient (Jan. 2000 coded in notepad!) site forward into the New Millennium and after trying several that; A. Had WAY too much going on., or B. Made my site look and feel too much different from the original and then, C. Were going to be a nightmare to customize easily., I found ChangeMe~!

I actually had to go into the style.css a few times, though I know little or nothing about CSS and actually find it quite maddening more often than not. CSS seems to be great for Styling of text, decoration of elements, area backgrounds and design related items., but for LAYOUT it is a total PAIN (coming from nice simple table based layout where things STAY where they are put in most ANY browser!).

Which brings me to the point of this. In Firefox (my main browser) everything looks fine for now, but in IE there is a huge gap between my site logo and the other header elements. Of course it is very possible that I did something that messed up IE when I played with style.css, but it looks OK in Firefox. The site is located at; http://GuitarZoo.com and the original is at; http://GuitarZoo.com/index.hrm

I will attach both the style.css & changeme.css if that might help as I made a few nice little changes and will probably make some more as I go along with more of a design in mind. For now, I really just needed to get something up and operational that I could start working with and your theme was IT. Thanks again.,

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Rob_Feature commented

I guess I'd need to see a site example where this was happening. As of now, from what I can see, there should only be a 10px padding below the logo....so I'd need to be able to see what else might be causing that in your situation. Can you show a version of your site before you fixed the issue?

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Rob_Feature commented
Status: Postponed (maintainer needs more info) » Closed (won't fix)

Moving this to 'won't fix' since it seems that #3 was a site-specific problem. Reopen if you're also having this issue.