Introducing blogsimplified-blackneon
Check out the new black neon blogsimplified WordPress theme, which you can download in the WordPress themes area.
This is a clean and simple minimalist theme, 955px wide with a black background and three columns set up or high performance adsense skyscrapers in the middle. The ads can easily inserted into a text widget and the 160px wide ads should format nicely with dark grey borders.
For an example of blogsimplified-blackneon in practice, see this Airport Codes website.
I am using this theme for my site. It is actually fairly accessible for me as I am legally blind and need a high contrast theme. I would like to ask two things. First, would you consider making this compatible with category pages (http://pixline.net/2008/04/category-page-25-howto-2/en/)? Second, would you consider tweaking your theme to make it more high contrast? A basic Black with variations on gold font?
Thanks
Comment by Tim O'Brien — November 26, 2008 @ 7:17 pm
Thanks for the comment, Tim. I would be happy to look into it. I have not used the category pages from pixline.net. Tell me more about what you are looking for on that.
Regarding colors, I would be happy to make another rev of the theme. Do you have any specific color codes that you are looking for?
Comment by admin — November 26, 2008 @ 9:07 pm
On category pages, I am trying to use that plug in to create dedicated category pages with descriptions of that category.
For an accessible theme, gold font on black background, no excess images, using complete width of page, text does not overlap when using text or full zoom (i use firefox). these are the kind of things i look for.
I am cycling through a couple of light on dark themes to test them out.
thanks for looking into this!
Comment by Tim O'Brien — November 26, 2008 @ 9:56 pm
Can you tell me if ‘Blackneon’ is compatible with the new 2.7 version of WordPress?
Thanks
Comment by Steve Leitman — December 12, 2008 @ 9:23 pm
Yes, I just upgraded and everything seems to be working smoothly.
Before upgrading, make sure you deactivate your plugins, however. If you don’t, you will get lots of errors and it will be a pain.
Comment by admin — December 15, 2008 @ 4:17 pm
Thank you. I’m new to WordPress, so this is an initial installation/design (based on your blackneon. So, I understand I can go forward with version 1.0.2 on WordPress 2.7.
Comment by Steve Leitman — December 15, 2008 @ 11:15 pm
Blogsimplified.com and the two example sites listed here have all been upgraded to WordPress 2.7 with no problems. I had some issues upgrading to 2.7, but it was only because I forgot to deactivate my plugins first. Everything works fine in 2.7 with the blogsimplified themes.
Comment by admin — December 15, 2008 @ 11:30 pm
Love the look of the theme! I’m having a small issue with it, though. I’m running it on WP 2.7 (if that matters), and the comment section isn’t working for me at all. Nobody can leave a comment. When they fill out the comment fields and hit “submit,” they receive an error saying “Sorry, no posts matched your criteria.” Advice?
Comment by Cyn — January 19, 2009 @ 10:36 pm
Also — is it possible to tweak something (just tell me how, and I can do it) so that the comments box/fields are always at the bottom of every post? As it is now, the reader has to click on the “comments” text link, wait for the page to reload, then comment/submit. (Right now, clicking submit results in the above error.)
Comment by Cyn — January 19, 2009 @ 11:11 pm
I am running it in WP 2.7 with no problems, but if you can provide more details on the problem, I would be happy to look into it. In fact, I this comment is being left with WP 2.7 and if you can read it, then it worked. I also will look at the second suggestion to leave comments open by default in the blog, rather than only showing them when you click on the post.
Comment by admin — January 20, 2009 @ 1:52 am
Thank you for your prompt reply!
More details:
I created one post. Logged out, to test the “comments” interface. Scrolled to the bottom of the post, and clicked “Comments (0),” and waited for the page to reload with the comments box open. Left a comment, using a different email address. Clicked “Submit,” but instead of seeing the post with my new comment at the bottom, I get an error page saying, “Sorry, no posts matched your criteria.”
Comment by Cyn — January 20, 2009 @ 7:47 am
Please do let me know how I can tweak the code to leave the comments box always open at the bottom of any open post. If possible, I’d like the “end result” to be such that any existing comments would be immediately after the post, and the comments box then below all of the comments. So it would look like this:
Post title
Post content
All existing comments for this post
Comment box for others to leave their comment
If you can just tell me what code to use, I can insert it into the css myself.
Many thanks.
Comment by Cyn — January 20, 2009 @ 8:04 am
I love the blackneon theme, but I am having a problem with it on my site. If I view it with Firefox everything is fine, but the layout is wrong when viewing the IE.
Any help would be greatly appreciated.
Comment by Scott — January 26, 2009 @ 9:54 pm
I am working on an update to the theme and will take all of these ideas into account. The change for leaving comments open is not in the CSS but in one of the PHP files. Give me a couple of days and I should have it. Regarding the comment issue, I haven’t been able to replicate the error. Is this a newly installed blog? Sometimes when you first install and move the blog to a new directory or change some of the parameters, you need to reset the browser and clear the cache so WordPress doesn’t look in the wrong place for something. From what you described, that sounds like what might be going on, but let me know a little more detail and maybe I can replicate it and then fix it.
Comment by admin — January 26, 2009 @ 10:26 pm
Scott, which version of IE are you using? Can you tell me more about the problem you see with IE (I tested it on a PC with IE7 but haven’t looked at a PC in a while). I do know that at the time I made the theme, IE did not support the CSS rounded corners, so the corners were square.
Comment by admin — January 26, 2009 @ 10:33 pm
Great blog. Do you know of any relevant marketing forums or discussion groups?
Comment by John Taylor — April 23, 2009 @ 4:26 pm
Love your theme, but doesn’t work with IE8. Is there any way to fix this?? PLEASE! i don’t want to have to use a different theme
Comment by Patrick — August 15, 2009 @ 2:37 pm
Please send me a screenshot or describe the problem so I can fix it. blogsimplified at gmail.com
Comment by admin — August 17, 2009 @ 1:13 am