SevaTeem

When I originally added the right sidebars I said that although they spilled over the right of the screen when they were empty that didn’t matter then so I wasn’t going to bother adding in the sophistication of the left sidebars.

Now I’ve reached the point where it does matter as you can see, or at least it matters when I use fixed width columns on a fluid width page. Essentially this means that I need to add in styles for each of them in the stylesheet so that I can update sidebarRight1, 2 and 3 to allow for the times when they’re empty.

One thing that always surprises me when I look at the themes available is that they offer next to no options to let people change how the header and/or general background images are handled.

I don’t think I’ve yet come across a theme that lets you easily change the background image and then get the text colours to something suitable without needing to edit the stylesheet. Until now that is because SevaTeem is designed to let you change the background and/or header images which in turn means that you’ll often need to change the colour of the fonts used so it has options to let you do that easily.

Similarly, sometimes you’d like a background image but with the text content completely over that with an opaque background. SevaTeem does all that and thus lets you create a number of very different looks very easily.

What’s left to do. Well, at the moment it seems to be just the dreary trudge through the stylesheet to get it tidied up a little. At the moment, it looks like that’ll be finished this week.

Although sometimes it felt like the day would never come, it looks like I’m getting close to the point when I’ll be releasing SevaTeem to the world.

The tidying up of various aspects is going pretty well and the initial set of options seems nearing completion too.

At the moment, you can select a header image and/or a main body image or you can go for plain colours on either one, you can get adsense to appear either before or after each post and you can add stats code to your pages. Of those, the only one that I’m not happy with is the last one as the code that sets the option keeps inserting extra backslashes; I’d like to get that fixed before releasing it.

I’m gradually working my way through the stylesheet which is expanding it a little bit as the various options are incorporated into it. Still to do is the gathering together of the stylesheet components for the sidebars which seem overcomplicated to me at the moment.

Finally, as you may have noticed, I’m also looking round for the definitive background image that’ll go out with the theme.