Lately I’ve been getting a lot of people who want little changes on the theme Watercolor, today I’m going to address those changes, as well as update the theme. This is the biggest update yet, because I’ve changed the framework this theme was based off of. I had a little trouble with WP Framework, which is what I used for the previous versions of Watercolor, so I moved to Carrington CMS framework, which I’ve been using for all of my recent projects.

Because the whole theme was rebuilt, there are a lot of changes. Feel free to contact me if you see any bugs, errors, or want any changes to the theme. Most of the changes are behind the scenes, although if you are using a Webkit based browser such as Safari or Chrome, you may notice some new visuals. Ok, here’s how to change the way your title displays.

Using CSS

*requires a basic knowledge of CSS

1) Open carrington-text.css inside Watercolor>css

2) replace

#blog-description {
	line-height:60px;
	font-size:30px;
	margin:0;
	padding:0;
	color: rgb(83, 20, 55);
	text-shadow:0 0 1px #fff;
}

and

#blog-title a, #blog-title a:visited {
	font-size: 90px;
	text-decoration: none;
	line-height:120px;
	margin:0;
	padding:0;
	color: rgb(66, 53, 110);
	text-shadow:1px 1px 1px #fff;

}

with your own CSS.

Using an Image

*Photoshop or it’s free alternative Gimp is required for this

1)Download PSD below

Download PSD (11MB)

2) Open with either Photoshop or Gimp

3) Change image to your liking. (title, tagline, font, logo, etc.)

4) Save file as title.jpg

5) Place file in Watercolor>img (replace existing file)

6) Open header-default.php , located in Watercolor>header

7) Find the line starting in <!-- and delete <!-- and -->

That should be all. If you have any questions feel free to contact me and I’ll try to get back to you as soon as I can.

Download Watercolor

Today I submitted to wordpress.org an updated version of my Watercolor WordPress theme to WordPress.org. This update applies the WP Framework update, along with fixing back end problems. The updated theme will (probably) be available mid day Monday. Thanks to everyone for informing me of the bugs in the previous version. If any more problems occur or bugs are spotted, please send a message on the Contact Me page of the blog.

This blog/ portfolio has been around for almost a month now, and has brought me a lot of good recognition. This post is just to thank some of the websites that have featured my new theme Watercolor.