#Bwater As water, this wordpress theme is 100% fluid-width. Bwater will look great in virtually any screen resolution or font size. Furthermore, it is responsive for small resolutions. Bwater is designed and developed following a fluid grid system and a fluid baseline rhythm. It uses pure HTML5 and CSS3, microformats included. It is as well translation ready and ready to work with a right-to-left language. You can configure it to use with a single column or with an additional right sidebar where you can put any widget. It's also possible to have a custom menu. Bwater works fine in any modern browser.
##Setup You can get Bwater, in zip format, from this URL: https://github.com/laMarciana/bwater/zipball/master
To install it follow setup instructions described in wordpress site.
##Customization Bwater uses pure HTML5 and CSS3, you need to know these languages to customize it.
Bwater is designed as a fluid grid system. You can learn about it reading this article about fluid grids in A List Apart.
It also uses a baseline rhythm system. You can learn about it reading this article about fluid rhythm in A List Apart.
Bwater is 100% fluid, both horizontally and vertically. If you look at the CSS source code, you'll see this is fully commented to help customization. Everywhere you see CBW
, it stands for containing block width and it is used to calculate percentage horizontal values. Where it says RFS
, it stands for relevant font size and it is used to calculate em values.
##Localization Bwater already comes fully translated in three languages -english, spanish and catalan- and partially in arabic. If you need to translate it into another language you can read this tutorial in how to localize a wordpress theme. Please, if so, give us feedback to include the translation in next release.
##Right-to-left languages
Bwater is already prepared to be used with right-to-left (rtl) languages. If you download wordpress in a rtl language then everything will work automatically. If instead you downloaded wordpress in a left-to-right language, be sure to update your language configuration in wp-config.php
and to copy the language file located in wp-content/language
in the rtl language wordpress package (for example, wp-content/language/ar.php
) in your wordpress setup.