Wordpress theme

[Metreon Cascade]

So I've been up since yesterday afternoon trying to prepare my WordPress installation for integration into my site. I wanted to come up with a theme that would integrate well into my site's overall theme.

I wanted some feedback before I launch the thing (as it is, my 'blog' link points to a different blog with a totally incongruous theme). I basically just played around with the templates and CSS for the WordPress default theme. I hadn't done any WP customization before, so I'm pretty pleased with the results so far.

The blog I'm getting ready to launch: http://metreoncascade.net/wordpress

[Jick]

I think I like it... I especially like the images that appear over everything when you hover over the left navigation. That's pretty clever. Good work! ;)

One other note: You might want to validate your (http://validator.w3.org/check?uri=http%3A%2F%2Fmetreoncascade.net%2Fwordpress%2F&charset=(detect+automatically)&doctype=Inline&group=0) code (http://jigsaw.w3.org/css-validator/validator?uri=http%3A%2F%2Fmetreoncascade.net%2Fwordpress%2F&profile=css21&usermedium=all&warning=1&lang=en). I can tell you from experience that it's worth your time to validate you code. :)

[Metreon Cascade]

I think I like it... I especially like the images that appear over everything when you hover over the left navigation. That's pretty clever. Good work! ;)

One other note: You might want to validate your (http://validator.w3.org/check?uri=http%3A%2F%2Fmetreoncascade.net%2Fwordpress%2F&charset=(detect+automatically)&doctype=Inline&group=0) code (http://jigsaw.w3.org/css-validator/validator?uri=http%3A%2F%2Fmetreoncascade.net%2Fwordpress%2F&profile=css21&usermedium=all&warning=1&lang=en). I can tell you from experience that it's worth your time to validate you code. :)

Definitely. I know a number of issues will stem from the fact that the rest of my site is in HTML 4.01 while the Wordpress theme is XHTML. I'm wondering if it's feasible to convert the whole theme to HTML, but even if it is I know it'll be easier to simply convert the menu (which is HTML copied from my main site). Either way, I'll get it valid before I integrate it into the rest of the site.

I will be fixing up the CSS and removing the rounded corners (I haven't even seen the elements they're used on - probably the Kubrick header which I'm not using), but the CSS3 shadows will be staying (they look gorgeous in Safari and Opera).

[Metreon Cascade]

Funny thing about those popups - originally they were pure CSS (using a:hover). But I used JavaScript to put a very short time delay on them, so you could accidentally mouse over link 3 on your way to link 4, without link 3's popup showing up. The CSS for the popups specifies that they're display:none and visibility:hidden. The CSS for 'a:hover span.popup' changes them to display:block, but the time-delayed script is what changes the visibility to 'visible.'

This also allowed me to turn the popups off if you use the shrinking-menu option (the lock icon on the lower right). The popup script just says "if the menu-shrink cookie says that option is turned off, then turn the popup visible after 200 milliseconds."

And a year and a half ago I barely knew any JavaScript at all.

[Jick]

Like I said, it's very clever! Great work! ;)