Postcards from the Funny Farm

I’m pleased to release my first publicly available WordPress 2-column theme entitled: “Deck Shoes.”

I chose the name due to its simplicity and reliability and I made it as a teaching start-point for CSS but it works out-of-the-box as a powerful and cool theme. Deck shoes is a culmination of all the tumblelog and specially css styled themes I have dissected over the past year along with features I have found useful to my style of “tumble-hybrid” blogging. Its features include:

Specially styled CSS options*
Rotating images in header (customizeable with your own)
Gravatars show up in comments
RSS links by category with RSS images
Customized Adsense areas under header and in posts
Chunky big blockquote graphic
CSS comments throughout as tutorials for changing options

*The specially styled CSS options add variety to your posts. To use them, simply use the div or p class calls in your post (in the code entry editor only. They will not work through the rich text input editor). e.g.,

Will look like this:

This is a test of an aside and now is the time for all good men to come to the aid of their party whether Democrat or Republican we all have toes so we should all wear deck shoes.

NOTE: due to Wordpress self correcting feature, once a DIV special style is inputted it will revert to a P if opened for editing after being saved. You have to change it back if you choose to re-edit. ALSO: To get the photo styling to center with a border, just add class=”center” in the img line. Questions? Leave a comment.

Here are the p, div classes included out-of-the-box:

aside, thought, code, notepad, photo

When you get the hang of it, it is fairly easy to create your own special styles. I made this theme for beginners mostly to learn css and special styling from my examples. Enjoy! I appreciate your feedback.

Demo it here

Download latest version of it here

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