January 09, 2004
Lines with a Modern Look
I have just created a new style that utilises position: relative to move the display of date to the side of the blog entries. Adding borders of different width, and I am trying to give it a modern look. Most of the time is spent on getting it to work on Internet Explorer, which makes funny rendering when I started adding some paddings. At the end, I figured that it is better to use margin than padding, in cases where both of them create the same effect, as somehow IE calculates the position better with it. Or better, just switch to Mozilla to gain much better web surfing experience.
Apply Modern Lines style
Another thing is the style submissions. Although I took one and published it previously, but I have decided that I'll dedicate this site for the styles that I have created. It is just getting too hard to keep track (and doing quality control on all the variations) of all the styles you guys have submitted. Plus all the confusing copyright issue that I need to deal with. Thank you if you have emailed me your style sheet! But I think I am not aiming to build a styles repository from the beginning. I'll rather to keep this place a small collection of styles of my own.
Posted by Dasme at January 9, 2004 11:15 PM | TrackBackI really like this one ... I especially like the comments and trackback layout. Very smooth.
Thanks for putting so much effort into this resource, it's something MT has been missing!
Posted by: smeg at January 10, 2004 12:02 AMI like this new style as well. I really like this site but since your objective isn't to become a repository for everyone's MovableType style sheets could you at least link to some MovableType stylesheet repositories you like (if such things exist) in your sidebar? Thanks, and I look forward to your next creation.
Posted by: paulthom at January 10, 2004 06:23 AMI would like to provide links to style repository as well, if there exists one. Please keep me informed. As I stated, it will be good to run a MT style repository, but due to complexity to manage I think I will give it a miss (for now)...
Posted by: scotty at January 10, 2004 06:57 AMThere are plenty of blog skin sites out there, and some even have MT specific skins, but I've had a hard time finding anything as useful as movable style, where you can simply cut and paste over your CSS ... I think I've only seen one other (and I can't find the link now, dammit)
So, thanks again! :)
I made a couple of changes to the new modern template on my blog, and now I have a horizontal scroll bar ... grr ... I hate trouble shooting like this :)
*goes off to find out what he broke*
Posted by: smeg at January 10, 2004 07:21 AMYes - damn shame about the repository. especially with your chosen domain name now. We need a forum or similar where styles can be ammassed/ evaluated/ improved for the whole community. ...like there is for blogger.(several thousand on thier styles site).
Nice work anyway! Shame there are so few styles!
=)
Posted by: mark at January 10, 2004 11:07 AMYeah I cannot find any decent MovableType styles sites that don't charge you (with money!!! - the nerve!!!) for downloading.
I come on movablestyle every couple of days hoping for something new and cool. Now with only one author publishing styles I don't expexct them to come out that often, which is unfortunate for the community.
Posted by: bren at January 17, 2004 08:27 PMgreat style :)
clean and easy on the eyes - thanks for posting the styles!
Posted by: Leonieke at February 28, 2004 06:45 PMJust wanted to chime in a with a cheerful THANKS! for the site. :-)
Posted by: Thinky at March 2, 2004 05:21 AM