I have had a couple people ask me for the MacDolphins WordPress theme to use as a starting point for their own swim team. The MacDolphins theme is built on top of the Sandbox theme framework and I am happy to share it.
I have toyed around with a couple of themes but this is the first one I think is robust enough to share. It does have a few issues left to fix (e.g. sticky posts) and I hope to do that soon. If you end up using this theme, please make sure to credit the Sandbox theme as without it, this theme isn’t possible.
MacDolphins Theme – updated 5/28/2009 @ 11:10 PM
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I was following some WordPress links today and came to Brian Gardener’s theme pages and decided to load his Revolutions Blog Theme on this site. Needs a bit more color but I do like it better than the Silver Light theme I was using. I still think I’ll end doing something with SandBox or the WP Themer Kit at some point.
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I have yet to code a WordPress theme from scratch. I have found something I like and started from there. For the MacDolphins web site, I had found something simple a while back and it served it’s intended purpose but it wasn’t without issues.
As the site has grown, the need to tweak the side bar in particular has increased. I found an extension to FireFox called FireBug which has made this process significantly easier. I am using FireBug to chase down CSS conflicts and oddities but it does much more than I realized.
My theme now works correctly even if it isn’t visually very exciting. The mouse overs no longer overflow the sidebar for 3rd and 4th level deep menus. I was able to resize the sidebar and the overall content area without things ending up in the wrong spot. If you dink with themes, FireBug is really helpful.
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As I was sitting here noodling on how to implement SDIF, I kept staring at the default Wordpress theme on this site and it became a distraction. So I took five minutes and found a theme to load – Silver Light 0.1. It’s ok, I don’t particularly care for the footer but it is better than the default and now this site looks a little better.
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For the time being I am using the default Wordpress theme for this blog. I’ll change it in the next week or two – for now I am happy it is installed and working. I love SourceForge – what they offer for developers is A+ but I am still figuring how all of the services they offer work together. I need a good SFTP client, I don’t think FileZilla supports it but I could be wrong.
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