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This blog is powered by… — Tue, 16 Oct 2007 00:23:00 +0000

[…] a follow up to my post about WordPress 2.3 and theme change (See here) as promised I would do a list of plugins and what else is in use for this blog. Questions and […]

By: Lis

Lis — Mon, 08 Oct 2007 23:36:24 +0000

Thanks I’ll give that a go!

By: Sam Nova

Sam Nova — Mon, 08 Oct 2007 12:42:43 +0000

Hi Lis,

Will be happy to help.

First I changed the background image (bodybg.png) to include my ‘avatar’. Then I needed to adjust the position of the text so it didn’t overlap as it does in the original xMark theme (Where it makes sense).

Edit the styles.css and find following:
.site_title
{
font-size:28px;
overflow:hidden;
height:35px;
padding:4px 0 0 25px
}

.description
{
font-family:italics Georgia;
color:gray;
font-size:14pt;
font-weight:400;
height:23px;
overflow:hidden;
padding:45px 0 0 175px
}

The place you need to change is the last number in the ‘padding’ lines, they describe how many pixels to the right you want the text moved.

On my site I use 185px both places.

Hope this helps.
Best, Sam

By: Lis

Lis — Mon, 08 Oct 2007 11:37:21 +0000

Hi - care to elaborate as to how you changed the top right image to customise it to your own cartoon - I cant find where to hack to the theme html - but I am pretty new at all this Thanks Lis

By: Lisa Sabin-Wilson

Lisa Sabin-Wilson — Wed, 03 Oct 2007 20:40:49 +0000

Hi Sam - I’m glad to hear that xMark works well for your blog and that you found it relatively easy to install and modify for your own needs. Also glad I got the theme updated in time for your own upgrade! Keeping that theme upgraded is an ongoing task for me :)

Cheers!