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WPMU Theme Update

Jul 03

JasonTheme, WordPress colorChooser, ipb, wpmu 2 Comments

Update:  It works in all browsers now.. Yaaaayy!!   Though IE does this strange ass selection thing that I need to figure out how to stop..  Next; I make it save your preferences then on to implementation!

So its been several more days and I have spent quite a bit of my spare time working on this theme conversion.. I can almost say its complete, but not quite yet.

http://info.rsow.com/projects/fffredesign/

My colorChooser system is about 90% done in Firefox and Safari, and about 70% done in Opera and IE. I’m not at all surprised that it’s not working correctly in IE, but the fact that Opera has the same error was a little shocking. Usually Safari and Opera work in parallel when it comes to javascript. Meaning if it works in one, it works in the other and vice versa.. I’ve managed to break that paradigm with this bit of code.. hehe.. It will be interesting to see what the issue is..

At this point choosing a preset or overlay works and colors the page correctly, and choosing an input to edit works. But you can only actually change the colors in Firefox and Safari using the cursors. There is something about doing that in IE and Opera that isn’t working. I’ll get that fixed here shortly I’m sure.

Also whatever change you make isn’t saved yet.. That’s just a matter of storing cookies and what not, I just haven’t done that yet. Also I haven’t made it realize you typed in a color.. I’ll get to it =)

It’s close!! I promise! Once I get the theme working correctly I’ll begin implementing it in WPMU.. Once that’s done I’ll start implementing it in IPB, which I dread.

I have tried to make my colorChooser system versatile enough that you can apply it to any webpage. That was my intent anyway. I hope to eventually apply it to my current rsow.com theme MicroBlue. Doing so will prove that it can be done and then I’ll release it to the wild.

Once I get the colorChooser working though, I will next add to it a way to change not just colors and overlays but also the whole theme. This will take a lot of work and is a ways down the road, but it should be pretty neat once I get there. I have a lot more stuff to do in the mean time though so I’m not holding my breath on that one.

I do need to redo my FFF graphic.. the one that is on the page now is a temporary that was created quickly to give me an idea of what I was trying for.. I like it, but it needs a lot of polish.. the film cannister looks horrible and the https on the urls make them too long.. etc.. I’ll do my best to make it better, I just wished my artistic abilities were anything above the nothing that they are now.. *sigh*

I will also add alpha shadows around the colorChooser box once it’s expanded. I haven’t done that yet either.. It’s interesting, as much work as I have done — and it’s been a lot — I am still not done yet. hehe

Speaking of not done; Another feature I was kicking around was a way for users to create a color set using the colorChooser then submitting them with a name or something to me so that I can easily make them public.. I mean if you create something that looks nice others might like it too.. Not sure how I’ll do that, or if I can. But maybe.. =)