Managing the Cutline Theme
For those of you who don’t know, there was a killer web designer that created a killer theme. And Cutline was born…
Well, in case you didn’t hear, Cutline (as well as Tubetorial) was acquired by Splashpress Media, and I’ve been lucky enough to have been asked by Splashpress’ CEO to manage the theme.
This should prove to be a really fun and exciting project, but filling the shoes of a guy like Chris Pearson might be a daunting challenge!
Congratulations!! BTW, if you haven’t already noticed I really LOVE your themes!!
I think you could add a lot to that theme Brian. Your clean coding layout will be an improvement to start with.
I came across Chris’s blog months ago, and after visiting hundreds of blogs, his is still the nicest looking design I’ve come across. I don’t know what it is, I just love it.
So since you’ve taken over the Cutline theme; any chance that a three or four column version could be released. While I like the original, a few extra columns would definitely come in handy.
Angela, yes I already noticed your site using my theme - love what you did with the header! Armen, time will tell as far as what we do with Cutline. Hang in there! Lyndon, at some point, yes, the intent will be to offer something of a wider fashion, check back!
If you want a way to do a three column layout in the meantime, I’ve done it with a little creativity and CSS. Add this to your CSS:
/*— For double sidebar goodness — */
#sidebar .sideleft { float: left; padding-right: 5px; width: 200px; }
#sidebar .sideright { float: right; padding-left: 5px; width: 200px;}
then add this to your sidebar.php under the line:
where you want the split to occur, simply add this:
of course, you’ll need to make sure you close the div’s properly and such (and adjust the widths), but that will get you the three column look until/if a three column Cutline is ever created.
Oops, I see code is parsed here… the lines in sidebar.php are these:
<div class=”sideleft”>
and
<div class=”sideright”>
Brian, I found your site after reading the news on the cutline site and following a few links. I was wondering why Chris didn’t have a new post for quite some time. As a heavy Cutline user I’d say thanks for taking up the task. The theme is great just some minor changes down the road and keeping up with Wordpress releases. One thing might be an update/review on how to add some publisher network (Adsense/YPN etc) stuff to your Cutline blog. Chris mentioned it in passing a few times.
Congratulations!
Congrats on your taking on the work of “Cutline”… now I could be really sold on this theme, if it could have a 3 column companion theme, with perhaps an option for 3 column frontpage, then 2 column “others” similar to the theme “NigaRila” by Sadish (found at http://nigarila.com/) Anyway, there is a lot going for Cutline as we all know, and I’m certain its evolution is in competent hands.
PS: Did I read mention somewhere of a 3 column version being already considered?