Author archive: Andreas Viklund
New template: Gallery
A new template has been uploaded, the first one designed by an external designer! It is Steve from dogs.net who presents an extremely simple photoblog-styled 2-column light-on-dark template. Based on Steve’s design, I have reviewed and re-formatted the code to make sure that the template keeps up with the requirements I have for my work,…
How to move the Basic Reader sidebar
A few days ago I got an e-mail asking how to modify the Basic Reader template to move the sidebar to the left side. For a design as simple as Basic reader it is a pretty simple change to do. Here is a step-by-step guide: The starting point The two content areas in the template…
The annual cleaning project
Since I got my first own computer back in the spring of 1997, I have made it a tradition to do some cleaning work of the computer during the last couple of days every year. Most often, that has meant to make two backup copies of all the files, then format all disks and re-install…
Moving into 2011
With only a few minutes left of the year 2010, I can look back at a dramatic year for both the site and for me personally. As usual, I will not write any long summary of the year that has passed. But at this time of the year I always sit down and think about…
Variant Duo used for phpbb forum
Today I got an interesting link that shows a heavily modified version of Variant Duo template used on a Chess site where it also handles some design parts in a phpBB forum. Take a look, it is an interesting example of how a CSS template can be modified into something that looks completely different from…