[p2pu-dev] help with blog design

Wed May 18 18:04:26 UTC 2011

>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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