How to easily modify the colors of a WordPress theme

During the last few weeks, I’ve received lots of emails containig a recurrent question about changing the colors of the themes I created. In the beginning I thought it was fun to reply to those emails, but I soon relized that my squeduled tasks were weeping sad and lonely in their blank documents. So

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How to get the same style for default and widgeted sidebars

This is the easiest trick in the book. Unfortunately, theme authors don’t always pay attention to such minor details, and it comes to you to solve the problems of a design that doesn’t look exactly like the demo site. So, to help you fix such issues, I compiled a reference list on WordPress generated ids

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CSS vs Firefox vs CPU

I was designing OrangeJuice and wanted to spice it a little with some mouseover effects. Everything was going smooth and easy and I was thrilled about the results. For a moment I even forgot about ranting against IE6; oh, what a glorious moment of aesthetic contempt, what a contemplation of ideas in act. And then,

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How to style every single post

Later edit: The example bellow doesn’t look pretty at all, because I’ve changed the blog’s design, based on another grid; anyway, the code is functional, so you either can built a grid of your own, or provide styles to the divs you’ll be using to style your posts. Happy coding . One of the few

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Grids and creativity

The problem with grids, it was said, is that they limit the designer’s creativity. Maybe it’s because the grids are made out of boxes and one must inevitably think inside of them. Or maybe it’s because creative people really hate limitations (poets, for instance, after struggling with meter and rhyme for centuries ended by inventing

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This website was made by Delicia, who is deeply in love with WordPress. It is built on a 30x20px module, with Georgia and Helvetica/Arial. The design is the result of many years she spent reading Wittgenstein.