Feedback sought on a template

[mysticcowboy]

Thought that I'd try contributing a template for WB. The initial design is here: httphttp://www.michaelsdesigns.com/resources/pages/template.php

Second and third level navigation have been split off into a submenu that only show up when the parent page is selected. Click on the "Multi-Level" link to see it.

Anyway, I'd like to know if there are any problems or suggestions.

Thanks, michael

[Vincent]

Nice work, Michael!
It has many features 'built in', like the section block, blockquote and pull quote. I think it provides a good basis for anyone to addapt it to ones one taste and needs. Nice clean code too.

It's great that we have some cracks in the community who convert open designs to WB - but I'm glad that we also get some original work.

Keep going.
Vincent

[mysticcowboy]

Thanks Vincent,

There are some great templates to convert. I'm looking forward to see what comes forward. But many of them are fixed width.

This design arose out of another thread where Klaus and I were disucssing how to design a template that would read well on both older small monitors and the newer larger ones. It seemed that a flexible width template based on a percentage based content width (that would stay narrow enough to be readable) with adequate white space was the best compromise. Most of the narrow designs look lost on a 20in monitor. (What's that in cm?)

In the next one I'll try for a more graphically interesting design. With this I decided to make the code and design clean enough that a couple of quick color substitutions in the CSS and a change of logo would would allow for easy customization.

As for features, when I look at Wordpress themes, they all have pretty complete CSS written in. I believe that a good template should cover common structural markup.

[newbie]

hi - nice template - i'm relatively new to html, css, and wb and i understood just about everything you just said!  For a beginner I like the simplicity you provide for substituting my own logo.  This seems to be a huge stumbling block for me - and it shouldn't be.  The use of white adds to this simplicity.  thank you.

[mysticcowboy]

I've added a text resizing style switcher and a print page javascript to the template. I'm using this for my work with translating the WB manuals to English.

[melissa]

This template looks really nice, professional. I struggle with the whole fixed width vs % as well.

Melissa.