[p2pu-dev] help with blog design

Wed May 18 20:01:52 UTC 2011

That makes sense. Bad, bad overring PHP! haha

2011/5/18 Pippa Buchanan <Pippa.Buchanan at gmail.com>

> >From what I could see on my localhost version of Woredpress Platform is
> producing text styles using PHP (from the theme settings) which are probably
> overriding any css changes you're making. Otherwise you'd be on the right
> track.
>
> P*
>
> 2011/5/18 João Antonio de Menezes Neto <tonyhomes at gmail.com>
>
>> Ah, and having changed the background color, we should also change text
>> color from #000 to #333
>>
>> Em 18 de maio de 2011 14:32, João Antonio de Menezes Neto <
>> tonyhomes at gmail.com> escreveu:
>>
>> You should apply this code:
>>>
>>> <link href='
>>> http://fonts.googleapis.com/css?family=Arvo:regular,italic,bold,bolditalic'
>>> rel='stylesheet' type='text/css'>
>>>
>>> To the header.php file
>>>
>>> Then, you can change the CSS to:
>>>
>>>  font-family: "Arvo"
>>>
>>>
>>> 2011/5/18 Philipp Schmidt <philipp at p2pu.org>
>>>
>>>> Grey background is working!
>>>>
>>>> Font not yet. I added this as custom HTML code, which seems to be parsed
>>>> (as it changes the header font at the end of loading the page). However, it
>>>> doesn't change it to Aryo ... I don't really know what I am doing here, and
>>>> giving me code snippets I can copy/paste has the highest chance of success
>>>> ;-)
>>>>
>>>> <style type=text/css>
>>>>
>>>> h1, h2, h3, h4, h5, h6, .site-title {
>>>>   font-family: 'Arvo';
>>>>   font-style: normal;
>>>>   font-weight: bold;
>>>>   src: local('Arvo Bold'), local('Arvo-Bold'), url('
>>>> http://themes.googleusercontent.com/fontkit=_OKjjqM9ed2qvTR07QdjWwLUuEpTyoUstqEm5AMlJo4')
>>>> format('woff');
>>>> }
>>>>
>>>> </style>
>>>>
>>>> 2011/5/18 João Antonio de Menezes Neto <tonyhomes at gmail.com>
>>>>
>>>>> Hello there,
>>>>> Wordpress's got a theme editing option on which you can change its PHP
>>>>> or CSS files (not sure if Platform allows that, but I guess it does).
>>>>> You can make the references to @font-face there, using the Google fonts
>>>>> directory that's already used today on our home page.
>>>>>
>>>>> Using Firebug I saw this class:
>>>>> h1, h2, h3, h4, h5, h6, .site-title {
>>>>>     font-family: Georgia,'Times New Roman',Times,serif;
>>>>> }
>>>>> ... which I guess changes the headings
>>>>>
>>>>> and this one:
>>>>> body, .font1, .font-primary, .commentlist, input {
>>>>>     font-family: Georgia,'Times New Roman',Times,serif;
>>>>> }
>>>>> ... that changes body text.
>>>>>
>>>>> I also found a commom
>>>>> background-color:#000;
>>>>> ... which is supposed to change the 'black' I commented. Try to change
>>>>> it to #333 to see if it works.
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> Cheers,
>>>>> João
>>>>>
>>>>> 2011/5/18 Pippa Buchanan <Pippa.Buchanan at gmail.com>
>>>>>
>>>>>> Ah. all the custom features on Platform make it hard to automatically
>>>>>> add references to Arvo-
>>>>>>
>>>>>> We can set it up using Typekit? That seems like it's another service
>>>>>> we'd have to sign-up for and it's limited to 25,000 views a month.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> P*
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>> On 18 May 2011 09:33, Philipp Schmidt <phi.schmidt at gmail.com> wrote:
>>>>>>
>>>>>>> hey joao: could you send me the diff/edit that I need to make to the
>>>>>>> stylesheet?
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> the other change I would like to make (and don't know how) is use the
>>>>>>> same font that we use on the site. any help with that would be appreciated.
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> P
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> 2011/5/17 João Antonio de Menezes Neto <tonyhomes at gmail.com>
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> that's a very very good theme. i'd just add to change to a light
>>>>>>>> gray the background of the footer, as we haven't used black in any of p2pu's
>>>>>>>> brand identity materials :)
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> 2011/5/17 Jessy Kate Schingler <jessy at jessykate.com>
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>> yeah, i actually think it looks pretty damn good.
>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>> i'm useless with design, so couldn't help improve it... but not
>>>>>>>>> sure it needs it so badly?
>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>> Jessy
>>>>>>>>> --
>>>>>>>>> http://jessykate.com
>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>> On Tue, May 17, 2011 at 4:18 PM, John Britton <
>>>>>>>>> public at johndbritton.com> wrote:
>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>> this new theme looks a lot better, good work!
>>>>>>>>>> --
>>>>>>>>>> contact info:
>>>>>>>>>> http://www.johndbritton.com
>>>>>>>>>> @johndbritton - http://twitter.com/johndbritton
>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>> On Mon, May 16, 2011 at 6:32 AM, Philipp Schmidt <
>>>>>>>>>> phi.schmidt at gmail.com> wrote:
>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>> Thanks! P
>>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>> On 16 May 2011 10:19, Stian Håklev <shaklev at gmail.com> wrote:
>>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>>> OK, changed it. It was in the theme settings (that's a very
>>>>>>>>>>>> fancy theme, with tons of settings!)
>>>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>>> Stian
>>>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>>> On Mon, May 16, 2011 at 18:13, Philipp Schmidt <
>>>>>>>>>>>> philipp at p2pu.org> wrote:
>>>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>>>> On 16 May 2011 10:06, Stian Håklev <shaklev at gmail.com> wrote:
>>>>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>>>>> Looks great! I personally hate blogs which only show short
>>>>>>>>>>>>>> abstracts with "click to read more", but I know lots of people prefer them
>>>>>>>>>>>>>> so ;)
>>>>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>>>> I prefer the full text as well - couldn't find the option to
>>>>>>>>>>>>> toggle that, and it came like this by default. P
>>>>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>>>>
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