More free stuff! For those of you using both WordPress Widgets and the Ultimate Tag Warrior plugin, try out this tag cloud Widget and let me know how it works.
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Looks like Tarski has been ported to the Korean TatterTools blog software.
I’ve a bit of an open letter to theme designers up on my personal blog, so if there are any of you around, please do take a peek.
As promised, here’s the new version. The changelog has all the details. My major aim with this theme was to smooth out the widget implementation slightly, add a couple of options people had requested, and improve the look and feel of the them.
New Features
We’ve expanded your options again with a new header, the imaginatively-titled Spots. If you go to the Tarski Options page and scroll down to the Miscellaneous Options, you’ll see the option to display your site’s tagline or description below the title.
If you don’t have a site description, don’t worry, there won’t be a huge and annoying gap between header and navigation.
Tweaks
This is mostly pretty dull stuff: some minor adjustments, rewriting a bit of CSS for the widgets plugin and whatnot.
The most obvious thing is probably the reworked Asides; I think they’re a lot more elegant like this, and these are fewer lines breaking up the flow of the page, which is how I originally envisioned things.
I’m going to do a more major rewrite of the code for the next major version, including a standardisation of the code for content areas and columns. This means two things in practice: some of your alternate styles will need rewriting, but it should be much easier to write them in future.
Tarski has a fair bit of legacy code and is much like a city that has had new buildings plonked down on old streets—it’s not broken as such, but future town planning will be a lot easier once we rip out some old foundations.
Keep an eye on the roadmap for the lowdown on the changes as I start to work on them.
Tags: 1.1.3, download, features, release, tagline, tweaks, widgets
We only released 1.1.2 last week, but 1.1.3 is almost ready now—this blog is running a preview version. As you can see, the Asides look a little different, and the site’s tagline is being displayed below the title.
The roadmap gives a fairly good idea of what else will be included in the new release when it comes out, later this week.
We’ve just added a Roadmap page so you can keep track of what we plan to add or refine in future Tarski releases.
If you want to use Tarski but use Blogger rather than WordPress, good news: you can now get Tarski for Blogger.
Looking for a Widget version of Tarski’s “recent comments” block? Here’s one. Be sure to get the Tarski links Widget, too.
May 25, 2006 by Chris Sternal-Johnson | 6 comments