Comments on: Saturday Night Fever for WordPress Theme Customization: How to Simplify

By: Tony Murphy

Tony Murphy — Mon, 13 Jul 2009 06:02:54 +0000

Hi,
I have just revamped my site with Pressbox. It does nto look as good as yours yet, but I’m working on it. I’ve not moved all the pages yet as the site was static and abandoned for a year!
cheers
Tony

By: Tuscany

Tuscany — Sat, 05 Jul 2008 05:13:00 +0000

It looks nice. You should just render the header more unique.

By: Moucki

Moucki — Mon, 16 Jun 2008 14:38:22 +0000

I liked the old theme better… I always loved your old theme anyway !! :) Now it looks a bit sad…
Perhaps you could put the sombrero back on each post, in a square just as you did with the “co” box for the comments. Or as Duane said, put it near the “SEO Blog” box. Or (yes, I’m full of ideas today) in the head box, but with a shade over it… it will show your readers that it will soon go away… :-)

By: Simon

Simon — Mon, 16 Jun 2008 14:24:09 +0000

I don’t agree with the readability, I think it’s excellent and gives a good overview. However you might try giving the titles on the home another color. Perhaps that would help people to scan.

By: Tibi Puiu

Tibi Puiu — Sun, 15 Jun 2008 19:52:04 +0000

Tad, the new design looks fantastic! Really great work, very sexy design. But I have to agree, please bring back the sombrero!!!

By: mike

mike — Fri, 13 Jun 2008 01:25:12 +0000

damn I was honestly here solely for the sombrero guy. is he coming back any time soon?

By: Steven Snell

Steven Snell — Thu, 12 Jun 2008 22:46:09 +0000

I thought I was on the wrong blog. I was expecting a sombrero. I also have contemplated getting rid of category links as they seem to provide almost no real value. I never click on them, so I assume others don’t either, but I could be way off.

Merlin,
If I understand your question, you can fix that by changing the link to your feed in the header.php file of your theme. Find the link that it is providing for your feed, and replace it with your feedburner URL.

By: onreact

onreact — Tue, 10 Jun 2008 10:12:50 +0000

Thank you all for the feedback. Sadly I’m immersed in work so that I can’t react as quickly as desired and probably won’t be able to fix everything until next weekend either. Nonetheless, keep it coming. Punch me in the face if you think I need it. One user complained that the site is unreadable now, is this true?

By: Duane

Duane — Mon, 09 Jun 2008 09:21:56 +0000

Definitely need the sombrero back, there’s loads of room for it even if you just plonk it on top of the big SEO red box. BTW I just noticed there’s a problem in Firefox with this comment box and it’s text wrap around as you get to the end of the line.

Cheers,

Duane.

By: Merlin Silk

Merlin Silk — Mon, 09 Jun 2008 06:47:06 +0000

Hi – this might be something that is actually a wordpress problem, a plugin problem and not a theme problem:

if I want to subscribe to your blog posts the RSS feed button up there shows your feed as http://feeds.feedburner.com/seo20 but then you feed should actually go to feedburner – I had been fighting with that problem a while after getting a feedburner account but never followed it up to the end – any ideas?

One other thing about your styling of forms: bug! ;-))
In firefox, when increasing the font size and typing into a form, the cursor will go beyond the size of the text area but show no text (white on white) and I don’t see what I type. If I reduce the fontsize I get more of my text back but I have to go too small to read on my 1900×1200 display in order to get all the content of the textarea displayed.

Merlin