I created a red overlay for the default theme and it works pretty good. Not to hard to figure out how to do so and how to edit the overlay.
But then I found some verbiage and layouts that I wanted to change in the theme itself. So instead of editing the default theme I copied it and created a new one.
This gave me a great way to make changes that probably I only want.
For example I refer to my blog posts as ‘artciles’ so I wanted it to say read the complete article when linked.
I also change the tooltip popup to say similar.
Most people are familiar with the ‘reply’ button so I changed it to say reply instead of ‘New Post’
I also changed the icons. Using my own theme I don’t have to worry about a future update overwriting my images.
Some of my changes may have been able to be done in a more elegant fashion but creating my own theme made it easier for me.
So Kudos to Andy and Steve for making it a ton easier to create your own theme and color scheme. How you broke them out makes it a lot easier to create your own custom site.
If anyone wants to try this theme I will be glad to send it to you but it is biased on my own setup and may not be something that is very universal.
You can see it in action by hitting up the link in my sig.
now you have the power to layout and change it up how you want…
