Author archive: Andreas Viklund
For the love of details…
During the last couple of days I have made a number of minor updates to the site. Mostly small changes that are invisible to visitors of the site, but which contribute to making the site a bit better. The site is now running WordPress 3.1, an update which will allow me to re-organize the template…
Try the new TemplateBuilder tool!
Today I am launching a new feature on andreasviklund.com, an online tool for building (and within a near future, publishing) complete websites out of the templates found here. It is called the TemplateBuilder, and it is free to use. It can be considered a beta launch since some features are not yet in place. But…
Inverting the colors of a template
When I published the Variant Artist template some days ago, I thought it would be a good example for showing how to change the light-on-dark colors into the opposite, with dark text on light background. It can be done in several ways, and this is how I prefer to do it. This is what the…
Themes for WordPress and Drupal
The WordPress themes page has been updated, all themes can now be downloaded either directly from this site or from the official WordPress theme directory. I have tested all themes with WordPress 3.0, made minor adjustments and added a new theme based on the default twentyten theme but with some added styles and colors from…
Replacing the transparent logo in Basic Landing
In the newly released Basic Landing template, there is a feature which I have never used before. The sample logotype in the header (as seen in the screenshot to the right) is a .png file which uses an alpha channel to make the background transparent and the glow effect semi-transparent. The sample logo can be…