Website Examples

[TheChymera]

Hey, @lisitsyn, I take you might have Königspress deployed on some website of your own? If it isn't too heavily customized, want to add that to the listing?

[lisitsyn]

Hey @TheChymera. I run something customized on http://sergey.lisitsyn.me/. If it is a fit for you - I'd welcome that for sure!

[TheChymera]

Yeah, it is heavily customized, and would lead the user to believe that the theme they download would easily be brought to look like your blog, so sadly, no :-/. Still I find what you did with "Read On →" quite nice, I'm going to play around with that and see if I can get a version of it which I think goes well with the base theme ;) Cheers!

[lisitsyn]

Yeah, that was kind of start for me (I just picked a random theme) but then I realized I want to change some things. The main point of being typography-like is lost so it diverged a bit. Although layout is quite similar still so I'd backport some things from time to time.

[TheChymera]

Yeah, I'm also thinking of good ways to keep my sites custom (especially where I use themes where the development is lead by someone else) while being able to "update" them easily from upstream - I generally do this via the /sass/custom/ folder - as any decently written theme does not control anything via that.

If you also support keeping per-theme modifications separate from per-site customizations, it would be great to hear your opinion on this thread!

[minizatic]

Hey @TheChymera, I have a slightly modified version of your theme on my blog, http://blog.blakepatches.me. I changed it slightly to look even more like the Pageturner theme. If you would like to add it to your listing, that would be fine.

[TheChymera]

@minizatic I actually like your header even more than mine. Did you only change the font weight? I think the improvement in looks is substantial! If you want to push your header part, I'd be happy to pull it in the master branch. I'll also be adding your blog shortly.

[minizatic]

@TheChymera, yes, I just changed the font-weight to 900, and the letter-spacing to 4px. I'd be happy to push the header part.

[bro-kaizen]

Hi @TheChymera,

Your theme is great. In my opinion it's one of the best-looking themes available for any blogging platform. I've started running it essentially unmodified on my blog here:
http://bro-kaizen.github.io

All the best, and keep up the good work :D

[TheChymera]

@bro-kaizen happy to add your blog to the listing, and many thanks for your appreciation!

Also, I took the time to browse your blog. I like your footnotes! How do you format them? (I hope not fully manually! in which case, I might want to do likewise 😉 )

[bro-kaizen]

Glad you like the footnotes! I use Rdiscount, and they're pretty easy---just put this in your post's body:

Lorem ipsum whatever [^1]
... many more lines of your text probably go here...

[^1]: An explanatory footnote, all the way at the end of the post, that will be automatically formatted

I learned this trick from here.
http://hiltmon.com/blog/2013/05/08/octopress-now-has-footnotes/

And the whole blog lives in a public repo, so you're welcome to have a look at the source to see the footnotes in action:
https://github.com/bro-kaizen/bro-kaizen.github.io

[TheChymera]

Hey, thanks for the info! I had hoped there would be an even more automatic (well, ok, not as automatic as inline) way of formatting footnotes, where I also don't have to keep track of nummeration etc.

Speaking of your site, I tried to look into the repo, but the repo seems to be of the deployed version (not the source files). I for instance version-track my source (e.g. here), because I find it more valuable, and appreciate having my content separated from the HTML code.

[twerq]

Nice blog, Bro Kai Zen, seems like it for me exactly.

[bro-kaizen]

You're totally right, @TheChymera---this system has quite a way to go before reaching BibTeX-like functionality.

FWIW it does numeration automatically, by detecting the order in which you cite and assigning numbers appropriately. So the text you choose for the placeholder actually turns out to be arbitrary. I just use numbers as placeholder text out of laziness.

And thanks for the pointer about the source. I've been keeping the source on a branch dedicated to the purpose, but am rather new at this and consequently ignorant of best practices. Is that an acceptable way to do things?

And I'm really impressed by chymeric tutorials. You have a very direct and clearly-reasoned writing style :)

[bro-kaizen]

Also, I'm glad you like it, @ionicer.

[kalafut]

I'll be moving brokenmold.net off of Octopress in the near future and your theme will be a casualty of that move... You can remove it from the site examples. Thanks. -Jim

[TheChymera]

Got it ;)

[twerq]

One more switcher here. It`s me to be accurate. http://ionicer.github.io no longer exist now.

[TheChymera]

@infodiver fixed ;) I'm still alive and interested in Königspress, but all of my Octopress stuff has become quite ut-of-date, and will likely stay so until octopress 3 is finally out and stable. This has been upstream's latest news for almost 9 months now...