October 04, 2003
Slashdot Style
I have been reading Slashdot for at least 5-6 years I think, and it has to be one of the pioneers of weblogs. Even through it pushes out dozens of technology-related news everyday, Slashdot's HTML is still using HTML3.2 with lots of in-line formattings that are obsolete in today's HTML4/XHTML era.
It is actually not that hard porting the look and feel of Slashdot over to Movable Type, and I think more and more I felt the "real challenge" comes from the MT's default template. There are many tricks that I would like to do but would require changes to the default template...
Anyway. Here it is. I still haven't figured out a way to make the #links side bar to maximise to 100% of the height...
Slashdot Theme
Note - this style contains 2 .png files that needs to be unzipped into the same directory as the .css
Posted by Dasme at October 4, 2003 12:02 PMCool! Perhaps I'll use this for my site :)
Congratulations on this website it's very useful and there's not much like it around.
Posted by: Marcos Kirsch at October 23, 2003 12:49 AMTried setting this one up on a friends blog and found the CSS code for the comments wasn't right, it left her with black text on a black background, and not the nice white backgrounds..
Currently in the process of trying to resolve this, but your comments here are fine, so I wondered if it was something wrong there.
Posted by: smeg at October 27, 2003 10:39 AMGot it in the end, but you may want to change it so the ZIP file contains *your* CSS sheet, which is what we ended up robbing ;)
Posted by: smeg at October 27, 2003 10:49 AMErk. I should remember to change the ZIP file whenever I change the CSS. Thanks mate.
Posted by: scotty at October 27, 2003 11:08 AMno worries, we got it up and running in the end :) I also used the grey "Boxed" template for myself.
About time someone was inclined to make a site like this! Good work!
Posted by: smeg at October 27, 2003 02:21 PM