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Brighthouse 1.2.0 released

Posted by Richard White Wed, 01 Mar 2006 01:31:00 GMT

If you were paying attention you noticed this blog received some loving today with an updated look and feel. I’ve updated the Brighthouse theme with all sorts of new goodies:

• Live search has been significantly modified. It’s now in the upper right hand corner and the results show up over the page instead of inline. The original style was hastily done and I thought it looked a bit heavy. I also hated how it put the results inline and moved the page around, so being the perfectionist I am, I was compelled to change it. Unfortunately this change requires modification of the Typo view for search. You’ll find exactly what needs to be done in the ‘about’ text (you just copy in a version that I’ve provided over your existing one). There’s also an apology for making you have to go through such an ordeal but there was really no other way to do it.
• The ‘about’ box has been removed from the template and is now something you can create optionally using a static sidebar element.
• Tested in IE 6, FF 1.0 and Safari 10.4. I never did any of that before so I don’t know if this fixes anything. Regardless, it’s all working now.
• Edit/Nuke links on comments and articles are no longer placed inline. This was pushing down the comments when you moused over, which was annoying.
• The textarea for comments smaller. That thing was ginormous and annoyed me every time I had to scroll the page to hit submit.
• Styles now apply to pages, not just articles. Enough said.

I’ve also made a page that will house the how-to and download links for Brighthouse henceforth. Enjoy and let me know if you have any problems.