painted 6.x-2.0-beta1

Painted Wall is now on version 2. The intention here is to make Painted Wall more flexible, more beautiful and more robust. UI improvements have been added.

This BETA 1 has been tested on Firefox 2-3 - IE 6-7-8 - Opera 9. There might be some minor bugs remaining, but the overall is stable enough.

Version 2 is a massive rework of the theme. The layout technique have been completely rewritten to make it possible for anyone to alter the dimensions easily. At first, flexibility of the general width of the site was the principal objective, but later on, some experimenting with new CSS techniques made me aim at a total control over the dimensions of the layout. It is now possible to change the dimensions of all sidebar or content, easily change the width of the site, switch from fluid to fixed width, or even alter the border of the content by just quickly editing the layout.css file. Painted is also way lighter than before, using less images, and less memory for the color module.

It is now also possible to remove the painted header background through the configuration page of the theme (bottom). An alternative design for the primary links have been added.

Painted should 2.0 fixes the following bugs/request..:

#380710 - XHTML 1.0 Strict with two small changes
#384250 - Error output in theme
#381830 - Would like to change the torn paper header
#392516 - increase overall size of columns?
#308498 - Cant change to other colors for the theme
#349684 - Author displayed for comments...

and more...

Painted Wall 2.0 still support the color module, but even this has been improved.