lwallenstein / designers-default

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README for Designers Default version .3
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Designers Default is a theme based on Michael Heilemann's default wordpress theme included with Wordpress out of the 
box. After doing lots of wordpress development, I found myself having to change the same things over and over again and 
reorganizing the structure and styles over and over again. This theme is really just a compilation of all those changes 
so I can start with a clean base. I am making it available to the public as I hope someone else may find it useful.

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What New
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Code Changes
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1) Eric Meyer's Reset template included ( http://meyerweb.com/eric/tools/css/reset/)
2) 960 Grid Template (http://960.gs/)) added for easy sizing control.
3) Print stylesheet added for cleaner blog printing - hides useless components when you print like footer and sidebar
4) CSS added for IE6 and IE7 Exceptions
5) IE6 Transparent PNG fix included.
6) Debugging CSS Added (Commented Out) for easy theme debugging
7) Post content broken out into seperate template to reduce repetition
8) Navigation content broken out into seperate template to reduce repetition
9) About template broken out to make it easier for beginners to edit.
10) XHTML 1.0 Strict doctype
11) Moved About Post data into definition lists
12) Comments put on each template so you can tell what to edit by looking at the source.
13) Comments put in the CSS source for quick changes.


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Design Changes
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1) Header broken into layered transparent images so you can change the color with a simple hex or upload an image to be 
the background.
2) Page frame broken into layered transparent images so you can change the color of the background with a simple hex
3) Added RSS Icons to footer.
4) Added Calendar and Tag Cloud added to sidebar and styled - just so you can see it is there.
5) Page width expanded to 1024px which is the standard in page width. 
6) Line height on paragraph increased to 1.5em



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TO DO
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1) Implement the right to left styling for persian users.
2) Get admin functions to work for color changing and picture uploading.