[fr] Je viens d'installer (après avoir acheté la version "Dévelopeur") le thème Thesis, et j'en suis très contente. J'aime les réglages que permet facilement ce thème (nombre de colonnes et largeur, sans avoir à toucher le CSS) ainsi que la "boîte multimédia" en haut à droite, qui permet de montrer des photos aléatoires (et même, si on veut, de spécifier une photo en particulier pour une page en particulier).
A few weeks ago Suw mentioned that she was looking at the Thesis theme for her sites. I went to have a look, and it looked nice and clean. Only problem: it wasn’t free.
However, the theme author, Chris Pearson (not to be confused with Cris Pearson), was offering a lifetime subscription to the theme and support, as well as use on unlimited sites for the developer version ($164), which I bought.
The result is what you see now on the site. I haven’t modified it much yet. Here are a few things I liked.
First, you can control the top navigation menu bar completely (look at how much stuff I put in it — maybe a bit too much). It wraps nicely when you put more items than fit in one line. You can add links to pages in your site, or to outside pages. This also allows me to link to the page named About Me and This Site with the simple word “About”. Basically, this achieves the same thing as the “redirect to” page template that I’m using on the Going Solo site, for example.
Second, you can tweak the width of your columns. The default width for the main content column in Thesis is 480px. Given I insert many medium-sized Flickr photos (500px wide), I widened it. No need to fool with the CSS, Thesis does it all in the background.
Third, the image rotator. Up right, you can see one of my photographs, and when you click on it, it will take you to the Flickr page it lives on. I’ll explain how I did this in a separate post.
At one point, I added a header image, which I now removed because I think it doesn’t go well with the images in the multimedia box up right. Here is the code I used (in the custom.css stylesheet), if ever it comes in handy to anybody.
.custom #header {
background: url("/wp/wp-content/themes/thesis/images/ouchy-header.jpg")
repeat-x top left;height: 160px; }
.custom #header #tagline {color: black;}
.custom #header {paddint-top: 1.5em;}
Stephanie, I must say I'm thoroughly impressed with what you've done in only 24 hours with Thesis. Your site looks great, and I'm sure it will continue to get better. Nice job.
Pat
P.S. I'm curious to know your thoughts on DISQUS now that you've got it set up. I run across it now and again, but haven't taken the time to really delve into it. And as a commenter, I have to admit that I'm reluctant to sign up with a service just to post a comment.
Hi Pat,
Thanks! I'm happy about the site too. As for Disqus, well, I haven't really delved into it either since I installed it. It didn't require you to sign up, did it? As a commenter, I appreciate the fact that comments I make on Disqus blogs get sucked up into my FriendFeed automatically. I also don't need to fill in my e-mail/url each time, which is nice.
I guess I could say I'm happy with Disqus, but I wasn't particularly unhappy before, and it hasn't either changed my life. Dunno if that helps!
Très joli.