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new theme: tulip

Posted by: pureessence on: March 19, 2004

i think this theme looks quite soothing. i love the header image :) i learned a few new tricks while putting together this theme. first i made the cloudy tiled background with photoshop.

make cloudy tiled background
1. create a new image. i used 250x250px. you can go whatever. fill the image with the color you like. i used medium grey.
2. filter -> render -> clouds that will create a cloudy looking image
3. filter -> other -> offset make sure you have warp around checked
mine turned out to be pretty seamless with just minor imperfection. i corrected it with smudge tool. ideally the offset warp around trick should work for making any tiled backgrounds but i haven’t tried.

i also learned a new css trick.

another css trick
thought it’s kinda cool to make the first letter of the body of your text unique. do something like:

.just:first-letter {
 font-size: 200%;
 text-transform: uppercase;
 font-family: Georgia;
 font-weight: bold;
 color: #C89F40;
}

for me the first letter included in <div class=”just”> and </div> will look different than others. you may also use it for paragraph tag like:

p:first-letter {
/* your definition */
}

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21 Responses to "new theme: tulip"

Oh, very nice. The header is so refreshing.

Beautiful theme! :)

Safari’s being a butt about that ‘first letter’ css. It’s making the first few words/lines huge instead of the first letter. *kicks browser*

that bites.. i guess i have to part from using it :(

Perfect! Flowers are so romantic. :-)

Sis, I love this theme. It’s so elegant. :)

:-O
such a beautiful layout!

Very nice theme. It is very soothing indeed.

i love flowers! your layout are so beautiful *-**’ mmm, is good when we learn new things! it isn’t? kisses

:s i’m seeing the winter theme =\

but ah, the new tulip theme, i see i see, and yea the header is really pretty ^___^

I love the new theme… it’s beautiful!! Tulips are my favorite flower :D Guess what? I wrote my first PHP script yesterday… yay!!

congratz, what did you write?

Im wrote a ‘DoodleBlog’ script… kinda like a Photoblog, but with Doodles hehe :) It’s like a simplified bloggin’ thing… im having trouble with the admin login/logout tho grrr

The new theme is lovely. Also, thanks for the cleartype thingy, that was driving me crazy, I had to highlight the stuff to read it :(

I meant in the last post…

The theme is so beautiful Dodo, excellent work!

Wow, beautiful theme! What I like most about it is how it captures the domain name so well!

:( Tulip theme’s gorgeous. ^.^ I tried the tiled cloud background in your instructions, but couldn’t get it. What version of Photoshop do you use?

Hmm, same, I must be doing it wrong…

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