Dirtylicious theme modification
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Well, I am wanting to modify the Dirylicious them on my site. Is there a ways so that the sidebar/navigation can look similar to the side panels on this site. The panel headers stand out with a bright color and the panels are separated categorically. |
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You can do whatever you like, of course (as long as it complies with Arcsin’s license), but it will be a bit tricky. He has used the “faux columns” technique, using an image to give you the balanced sidebar/content columns as you see them:
Of course, the Zybez site you link to isn’t bothered about balanced columns at all :) so if you dispense with that “main.gif”, then you will find it easier to work with the CSS in the way you wish. I think. ;) |
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What would you suggest then? I can attempt to make the separate panels but that ruins the whole layout of my site. |
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Well … just a suggestion to play with … but you could try this. Grab this image (if you can! It’s 1×36!)…
and save it as “sidebar_hbg.png” in your img_dirtylicious folder. Then, in your css, find the line reading:
It’s around line 163 in my copy. Instead of the following “color” line, paste in this:
Reload your site and see what you think. It’s just one way you could take it, but might give you enough to go on? Hope it helps! (Update: I gave mis-matching PNG names originally. Make sure they match, of course!) |
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That’s gotta be the weirdest design I’ve ever seen but thanks…I’ll work on it. |
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New question…how to make it so that the theme covers the full height of the page leaving the space on the side empty? Edit: Nevermind, figured it out….deleted the padding-top and padding-bottom CSS properties. |

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