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Nouveau v1.0 Released

Tuesday, April 29 2008 @ 08:41 PM CDT

Contributed by: Geiss

We are pleased to announce the release of a new theme for Geeklog called Nouveau!  Nouveau is a fixed / fluid width, blue & grey neutral theme intended to be a suppliment to the Professional theme that is included in a default Geeklog v1.4.1 install.

We have tested it in Firefox 2, IE 6/7, Opera 9, and Safari beta 3 on Windows. In other browsers, your mileage may vary. Check out a  working demo at http://nouveau.glfusion.org, download it here.


Nouveau features:

  • Small size and faster page loads thanks to using Joe Mucchiello's Caching Template Library.  This speeds up the rendering of your site by compiling templates for faster page loads. Additionally, only .thtml files that differ from the stock Professional theme that ships with Geeklog are needed to complete this theme. CTL version 2.3.1 or higher is required.
  • Tableless markup. All appropriate markup is created with <div> tags and css elements.
  • SEO friendly where content comes first in the code, followed by the left and right blocks.
  • Both Fluid and Fixed width versions of the theme, one line configurable in header.thtml.
  • Validates to HTML 4.01 Transitional (for GL v1.4.1 version, GL v1.5 to be HTML 4.01 Strict or XHTML Transitional 1.0 via a switch in the theme's functions.php)
  • Support for a 4 level cascading menu in the header.
  • Additional typography elements with quote and code styling, multiple list styling options, and more.
  •  Extra block styling options for both left and right blocks.


See the complete documentation for detailed information. If you have any issues, please post them in the themes support forum.

  

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Authored by: trinity on Tuesday, April 29 2008 @ 11:37 PM CDT Nouveau v1.0 Released
Congratulations on releasing such a great piece of work!
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Authored by: muntada on Wednesday, April 30 2008 @ 11:02 PM CDT Nouveau v1.0 Released
I must say that out of all the things that gl Labs has done, this is probably the most significant because it has finally begun to really address one of Geeklogs biggest weaknesses: layout/design.

Well done!
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Authored by: jasonhackwith on Thursday, May 01 2008 @ 12:22 AM CDT Nouveau v1.0 Released
Two words: CODE POETRY.
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Authored by: rukiddin on Tuesday, May 13 2008 @ 08:55 PM CDT Nouveau v1.0 Released
I have to say, I installed the new theme, and I'm utterly amazed at what you guys did. This is fantastic. Great work!

-- just noticed a small bug.. the Preview and Submit Comment buttons are overwriting some of the important stuff.. I'm using Firefox 2.0.0.14
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Authored by: Geiss on Tuesday, May 13 2008 @ 11:38 PM CDT Nouveau v1.0 Released
Yes, this is a flaw in Geeklog where it uses the same styling for widely varying elements. Basically, since some the What's New block lists have no class designations, you can't style their lists directly, so they have a larger space between list items (when using the YUI css foundation), which looks bad. To fix it we added margin-bottom:-10px to make those lists appear more normal, in style.css (around line 384).

Unfortunately, since the ul before the Preview and Submit Comment buttons has no class as well, it is styled the same way. This is what causes it to cover the last line or two of the text, that -10px bottom margin. You can certainly set it to 0 or remove it, but then the What's New listings will have lots of extra space and look odd.

I believe in the upcoming Geeklog v1.5 they have addressed discreet block styling which should eliminate that issue.

Thx!

Eric
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