Lush Theme

Posted by Geoffrey Grosenbach Mon, 28 Nov 2005 23:15:00 GMT

Marco van Hylckama Vlieg has spent many hours on Lush. It requires the current Typo trunk (which is used by many people anyway).

Lush is dedicated to my lovely girlfriend Renie who had to bear with me for many long nights and weekends while I was tweaking and tinkering this theme into oblivion.

Download Lush

Send your themes to boss [AT] topfunky [dot] com until midnight on November 28 (using your current time at wherever you are in the world). A link to your compressed theme is preferred, which will allow you to update your theme without re-sending it to me.

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  1. Roeland said about 2 hours later:

    Wow. Very good.

    I just added this at my site for the flickr macro.

    .flickrplugin { float: left; }

  2. Marco said about 2 hours later:

    Thanks Roeland! Glad you like it!

    IMPORTANT UPDATE:

    The zip now contains a .PSD file with the header graphics. You can now customize Lush’s look with ease and create entirely different looks with only very basic photoshop knowledge.

    Click here to see what you can do with it!

  3. tiago said about 2 hours later:

    Nice theme, very complete…

  4. Claudio said about 3 hours later:

    Very nice, i.m using this at my weblog :-)

  5. Wade said about 4 hours later:

    Very nice theme – great work!

  6. superman said about 5 hours later:

    Nice theme. There’s some cool stuff going on here. The only gripe I have is with the sidebar. The color scheme really brings down the flow of the site.

  7. Marco said about 5 hours later:

    Thanks all!

    @superman> I experimented with various shades of green and concluded this looks best. It’s partially personal taste I guess.

    The good news: It’s very easy to modify this. All it takes is changing the hue of one image and some css colors. You can see this in the examples I pointed to in response #2 in this comments thread :)

  8. Thame said about 10 hours later:

    Great work Marco, good luck in the contest!

  9. Sebastian Gräßl said about 15 hours later:

    Same thing at your theme, very high CPU spikes in Safari, up to 45% !

    But i like this theme and i think it doesn’t need so many icons. this makes the theme overloaded..

  10. Marco said about 16 hours later:

    What computer is that Sebastian?

    I get 1% CPU usage here on my machine. Leevi’s theme pulls a bit more but that’s because of sIFR / Flash. Still nothing to worry about though.

    The fact that my demo seems to pull more CPU than Leevi’s sIFR enabled one surprises me. I can’t reproduce this problem at all.

  11. Garth said about 17 hours later:

    Couldn’t get the theme to work. It doesn’t display the articles. Have I missed something here?

  12. Marco said about 18 hours later:

    Garth> I think so because I’ve seen it running on at least three sites already (spotted them through incoming links in my stats package).

    Could you please provide some more information?

  13. Simon said about 18 hours later:

    Nice work Marco.

    I especially like the fact that it’s easy to customize, your examples look quite good. Powerful feature, makes it a very good and useful theme. thumbs up

  14. tracey said about 23 hours later:

    Good luck Marco. There is some stiff competition, but you have a great theme.

  15. Marco said 1 day later:

    Thanks tracey! Keeping my fingers crossed!

    For the others:

    I found a tiny problem with users using paragraph tags in comments causing them to look funny. That’s fixed now!

  16. Rich said 1 day later:

    Niced theme iv seen so far just casually browsing

  17. Marco said 2 days later:

    Unfortunate note: The Ajax commenting seems to be broken on Firefox 1.5. It works on MSIE 6, Safari and Firefox 1.0.7. The comment does get saved fine, it just doesn’t auto-update the list of comments.

    I hope the judges won’t hold this against me, I must have triggered a weird Firefox bug somewhere. I’m looking for a solution but at the moment I’m writing this I haven’t found one yet…

  18. Marco said 3 days later:

    Check out this nice weblog for a real world example of someone using the .PSD template to customize Lush’s looks. Quite a personal feel!

  19. Brian Carr said 7 days later:

    The sidebar is kind of hard to read on that website. Not enough contrast. Nice to see someone using your theme though.

  20. James Brinkerhoff said 31 days later:

    Nice theme… Something about the html/css seems to break the ability to use the markdown flickr image embed with a style float: right or float: left. It looks fine in the preview of the article, but not when displayed on the actual site.

  21. James Brinkerhoff said 31 days later:

    Nevermind, something about my lack of experience with markdown was causing my issue :)

  22. http://blog.2unstream.us:9093/ said 35 days later:

    Thanks for the excellent theme: I’m using it modified on my video podcast blog: http://blog.2unstream.us:9093/

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