If you look on the demo site, without images etc, the node listings are just a big block with huges swathes of white in the background.

If anyone has any idea on how to make this look better, please post here.

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green monkey commented

I wanted a lite theme, as you load images - the images will have more pop

I have reworkded a few blocks

like this one

.with-featured {
border:1px dotted #C8DBEA;
}

.. but you can use that on all nodes for a bit more snap

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green monkey commented

you might want to turn Profile images on too

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naheemsays commented

Thanks, I will play around with that, see what I can do.

Saying that, I doubt I will add anything too fancy as that might break things for people already using the theme.

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green monkey commented

put all your changes in the local.css file

I've spotted a few small bugs, so I'm guessing there will up a update over time

overall.... this is a clean, lean & fast theme... with enough options to do most anything

I had lots of hours of work into a theme before this one and choose this one over it

I liked the regions better

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green monkey commented

LOL.....

I just noticed that you are the person that converted the theme

Thank you.. big time!!!

You did a great job on the conversion, lots of love and attention went into it and you kept things lean.

I wouldn't worry to much about making changes, you gave us a local.css file and thanks for that too.

Local.css is a smiple and powerful tool to have

PS: Color h2 backgrounds with #FFF over them looks nice and gives the theme a bit more visual snap

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naheemsays commented

PS: Color h2 backgrounds with #FFF over them looks nice and gives the theme a bit more visual snap

Can you explain that a little bit more please?

I have also committed text shadows for headings in the main page, no idea if they will be liked by everyone, but best way was to stick them in. you can view them on the demo site with a modern browser such as firefox 3.5, opera, safari or google chrome. Let me know what you think.

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green monkey commented

#sidebar #block-vocabindex-2 h3 {
background:#E6AB07;
color:#fff;
padding-right: 10px;
padding-bottom: 3px;
padding-left: 10px;
padding-top: 3px;
}

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green monkey commented

I didn't see the shadows?

There is one thing I miss in this theme.

A "Top of Content" region.

There is a Bottom of Content, but not one for Top.

Its a very handy region for putting View Blocks in

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naheemsays commented

I didn't see the shadows?

They are very subtle. and only work in Firefox 3.5, Chrome, Safari and Opera. To see, open the demo site side by side and have a look at the headings/page titles. they should be subtly different.

This is not something I want to make too apparent as it is not something that should be too in the face to stop it from getting annoying.

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naheemsays commented

#sidebar #block-vocabindex-2 h3 {
background:#E6AB07;
color:#fff;
padding-right: 10px;
padding-bottom: 3px;
padding-left: 10px;
padding-top: 3px;
}

oh that!

PS you only need the background declaration. Saying that, I do not think it is a good idea to add the colours by default - for one it is very similar then to the pay for theme arthemia premium which uses 5 such colours (but that is not GPL licensed) which may or may not make the original author unhappy, so I think it best to leave it for the users to figure that one out.

I will look at adding a content-top. (bring on Drupal 7 - no need for that or a content bottom as there will simply be a content region.)

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naheemsays commented

There is one thing I miss in this theme.

A "Top of Content" region.

There is a Bottom of Content, but not one for Top.

Its a very handy region for putting View Blocks in.

I have just committed a content top region. It is kind of like the content bottom region as in there is no styling to separate/distinguish it from the main content. Is this ok?

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green monkey commented

thank you very much

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green monkey commented

thanks again - this added a lot to my home page - placed 3 blocks there with random content