Colour Theme / ColorSide / Mandala

[dancing_serpent]

layout: ColorSide
one colour theme: Mandala
Image info: Image public domain from www.openclipart.org

This is the first time I've been working with images, and I'm not sure I did it right. The image I selected was taken from www.openclipart.org, here, but I have no idea if the quality is all right and so on. Right now it's saved here on my Photobucket account.

Author: dancing_serpent

Mandala / Preview

Comments

[ex_rising236]

That is really pretty. I like the image that you used.

[ninetydegrees]

but I have no idea if the quality is all right and so on.

Do you have a link to the clipart page?

[dancing_serpent]

Yes, linked above.

[dancing_serpent]

Thanks, I like it, too.

[ninetydegrees]

No I meant a link to the clipart on http://www.openclipart.org/ so that I can see if there is a difference in quality between the vector file and the png file.

[dancing_serpent]

*g* As I said, linked above. Right after the www.openclipart.org - or do you mean something else?

[ninetydegrees]

My sincere apologies! I didn't see the link and thought you meant the one to Photobucket. *facepalm*

[dancing_serpent]

*phew* I honestly thought you might be referring to something else and couldn't think of what.

[ex_rising236]

The colours in the picture are just awesome.

[ninetydegrees]

Ok I tried to find a compromise between quality and size and I've got one which is about 80Ko: http://i48.tinypic.com/2ptzeah.jpg

What do you think?

[dancing_serpent]

Looks good to me. In my version the borders seem a bit pixeled, yours got rid of that.

[timeasmymeasure]

I like the image and how the entire theme flows. I don't know about the yellow hover color but I guess since it's just in the hover effects it shouldn't matter much.

Really pretty theme, this one =)
I like it.

[turlough]

That's a really pretty theme. The way you use the colours of the image in the layout is very nice. I agree with timeasmymeasure though, the light yellow of the hover colour is not the best choice. It's so light it gives me the feeling that the link is disappearing when I hover over it.

[dancing_serpent]

Yeah, I figured it wouldn't matter for a hover link, and I wanted to incluce the yellow of the image in the theme, too.

[dancing_serpent]

Ugh, is it really that bad? I figured it wouldn't matter for a hover link, and I wanted to incluce the yellow of the image in the theme, too.

[dancing_serpent]

Oh, and should I save it to my Photobucket first, or may I use your link? And where will it be stored later anyway, and how do I patch pictures?

[turlough]

Hmmmm, what about using either the red of the dots or the pink/lilac of the next to outer circle for hover colour instead of the yellow? Or does that not work with the orange and green?

[dancing_serpent]

Changed the hover links to the purplish colour.

[turlough]

That's much better.

[ninetydegrees]

Oh you can definitely use my link!

Images for ColorSide are stored in dw-nonfree in htdocs/stc/colorside/. Save the pic to your computer, rename it using the style name as this is how other pics are named for ColorSide. Create a patch in PuTTY. Drag and drop the pic from your computer to the WinSCP folder. In PuTTY, type hg addremove then hq refresh then do everything else you need to (you can also do this at the end). When you upload your patch in Zilla, also upload the image as a second attachment. Don't check 'patch', of course, and select the correct file format in the list. Set 'review' and 'commit' to ? as usual.

[ninetydegrees]

Food for thought: what about using the yellow as a hover color for the module links? I don't know if it's going to be visible enough over the orange background but, as I said, food for thought. :)

[dancing_serpent]

*g* I already did that when I changed the other. But I don't think it will be visible at all - the link stays red, only the underline vanishes.

[dancing_serpent]

Thanks! Will try that. Uh, not very soon, though. *wince* Maybe at the weekend or so.

[ninetydegrees]

Hmm I see. This made it work for me:

function Page::print_theme_stylesheet() {
"""
#secondary .module-content a:hover { color: $*color_module_link_hover; }
""";
}

[ninetydegrees]

Dancing_serpent, can I assume you're going to patch this?

[dancing_serpent]

I'd love to try, again, hopefully this Saturday. I'm not really sure I did understand everything about how to deal with the image - I can be a bit slow sometimes.

[ninetydegrees]

You don't *have to* include the image in your patch, though. I mean you can do the patch as usual then post the pic as an attachment and the committer will upload it for you (they may have to do that anyway even if you've included it in the patch; I can't remember). Then, if you feel like it, you can create a second patch on top of the other one where you do include it. As training.

[dancing_serpent]

Well, I definitely want to learn. *g*

[dancing_serpent]

Do I create the patch in dw-free even though the image is stored in dw-nonfree?

[ninetydegrees]

Hmm. Nope, everything goes into nonfree.