so as you can see we got a new theme - derived from mandigo theme (www.onehertz.com/portfolio/wordpress/mandigo/). After looking at different themes i decided for this one, because i wanted a 3 colum-theme, but i didn’t find any widget-ready themes i liked. and mandigo looked like it would fit a 3rd column on the right very well!
playing around for some time to get familiar with the sidebar-registration and creating my own widges (for the Coppermine Fetch script), all in all it took like 2-3 hours of time… especially the stylesheets 
whatever, it’s up and running, upcoming events widget doesn’t work for now, but hey - that was enough time for today!
update: yes, i will be releasing this theme, or i will give it back to the creator of mandigo to release it on his side - did not decide so far. but there is 2 points keeping me from doing this right now:
- the theme is not finished yet: it has a fixed width of approx. 1000 pixels, that’s good as i guess nearly nobody has lower resolutions than 1024×768 and it’s ugly to have those blank areas on the left and on the right side! (especially if you have a widescreen-notebook…). so my ideas left to implement are: - a flexible content column - getting resized in 2 or 3 steps (via javascript/css modification), combined with font-size increments. so the effect will be a bigger blog with bigger font - not more content will fit onto one screen but it will be easier to read (yes, i’m getting old and my notebook is a lightweight one with a small screen ;). if i can achieve the same effect in one step for the right column i could manage to fit in not only one column of pics but 2 or 3 beside each other. or if the screen widt is 1280 or more add a 4th colum and move some of the widgets there like the recent articles/comments to clean the other columns up. once the window is resized and made smaller everything should go where it is right now and the 4th column should be hidden.
- 2nd point: widgets. i have coded some widgets for the cpm-fetch module, that was quite easy, but right now there is a hardcoded path in the widgets and there is no way to pass parameters to them (like how many pictures should be displayed). and those widgets reside within the theme-files, but that is the wrong place… so i should look into some other widgets how to make a config-page and how to pass parameters to them. and then put all this new stuff into a seperate cpm-fetch widget.
Done. maybe in a year or so…. 
honestly - please give me some time… i really like to program and hack php from time to time and now this time has begun again. most times that is when i would get the time to come around some old stuff i push around and never finish. and before beginning this old stuff i look for something different. sounds familliar? 
January 5th, 2007 at 7:26 pm
Well done! Looks pretty!
January 6th, 2007 at 6:38 am
Very nice work on modifying the theme. Congrats!
In fact, it is so nice I hope you’ll release it for others to download. Sweet!
January 6th, 2007 at 10:33 am
Hello Robert!
yes, i thought about this yesterday, there’s 2 points about it though - i put them up in the post, so go read there