Steffen Hi, the name's Steffen and I'm writing about the Web, programming and all those things coming to my mind. Enjoy your stay.

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RusiTheme

The CSS of RusiTheme - my first, neat, little, and sweet Wordpress theme - has been built completely from scratch. Thanks to John Godley from UrbanGiraffe for his great WordPress theme how-to. RusiTheme heavily uses anti-aliased Nifty Corners - thanks to Steven Wittens for this his JavaScript lib. And maybe you noticed, that this theme looks kind of familiar - well, that’s on purpose, so you feel home at once: I’m using the colors from my old theme, Almost Spring by Rebecca Wei.

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Key features

  • Round corners without images
  • max-width hack for Internet Explorer - your layout won’t be broken on IE, no matter what your visitor does with his browser
  • Optimized for low-bandwidth connections - perfect if you host your site at home via DSL (low bandwidth uplink) or you’ve got lots of visitors using plain old modems
  • Comes with just one image for the RSS feeds (560 bytes in size)

Tested with

  • Internet Explorer 6.0 SP1
  • Firefox on Windows and Linux
  • KDE 3.5 Konqueror
  • Safari on MacOS (no round corners - happy about bug fixes!)

Changes 0.18 to 0.19

  • Fix a bug in the RSS image on IE and Firefox - doh!

Download

I hope you like it, feel free to help me debug my little breed and download, if you like, version 0.19 here (17.7 KB).

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2 Responses to “RusiTheme”

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    Tom Says:
    September 27th, 2006 at 22:57

    Today i started my search with rounded corners. One result was the Ruzee.border script which i like very much. This script leaded me to the Ruzee.event script which also is very neat. This made me curious and i looked at the downloead section to find an wordpress theme with rounded corners but without the Ruzee.border script. And again curious as i am i like to know why nifty is used and not Ruzee.border. My best guess would be one off two options:
    A) The rusitheme was written before the border script.
    B) Somehow the borderscript was not quite as good as the nifty script in one way or another. Anyway i like this site verymuch an likewise all the download gems on it.

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    Steffen Says:
    September 30th, 2006 at 16:31

    Hi Tom,

    The correct guess is A: RusiTheme was done before I started with my own rounded borders solution - Nifty simply can’t do any shadows. ;-) But, it should be pretty easy to migrate the RusiTheme to a theme that uses RUZEE.Borders - But I’ll have to leave that to you ;-)

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