New theme

A new week and a new theme. I'll confess to not being the world's best web designer and recently I've been trying to come up with something that's simple enough for others of a similar disposition to maintain, while being cleaner and compatible in the major browsers. What you see here, I think, is a little bit more fresh, a little bit more "Web 2.0" and ultimately just more of a pleasure to look at.

There are a few little wrinkles to sort out here and there (mainly with respect to the admin interface) but I'm really happy with the way it turned out. Please do let me know if you see something that doesn't seem quite right, and also let me know what you think. For those of you that are Pebble users, would you like to see something like this be the default theme for Pebble 2.0?



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I like it, Simon. Not quite the fancy-schmancy Web 2.0 look everybody seems to have - but very clean and simple. (And much better than the default!)

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I am a relative newcomer to Pebble. I 'discovered' it in March while searching for something that would meet my wife's needs for a blogging tool in her work at NASA. She now uses Pebble there but, naturally, she has to create a theme that is in line with the NASA look and feel.

For my personal and professional blogs, I really like what you have created. I would love to have this theme available as the default when I update to Pebble 2.0. There is just something apropos about a wannabe-sysadmin-geologist using blogging software named Pebble with a picture of water-worn rocks at the edge of a stream in the masthead of his blogs.

As for suggestions, the only thing I miss from the Pebble 1.9 design is having the categories across the top. Even there, I have a feeling I would quickly get used to having them a click away as you now do.

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I like the fixed width of the content area. Maximising Pebble 1.9 on a 1600x1200 screen makes the lines rather long, and it feels awkward.

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I like it too, looks much better than the defaultn 1.9 theme (which I never really got around to changing)

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Very nice theme. I must admit that I spent quite a few hours trying to develop mine. I've been playing with pebble now for few weeks and really like it. Can't wait to have the M2 released (played with the source already).

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Thanks. M2 is just around the corner - I'm checking in the last lot of major functional changes tonight, so stay tuned.

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I've been playing around with 2.0.0 and although I like the new theme, I want to be able to change most of it. However, you mention that you have a new simplified theme management, and I haven't quite figured out how to change it. Are you planning on including some documentation so that we can roll our own theme? Thanks

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