THIS SHIRT IS AWESOME

(n.b. probably only theme makers will get this)

ninpen:

Here is my collection of wooden backgrounds and textures. 

Download

Those on Windows 8 (?)

Do you think I should upgrade my windows 7 laptop to windows 8? What are your thoughts?

I know this isn’t theme related, but just wondering..

EDIT: Thank you guys for the suggestions, they’ve really helped!

Update - April 2013

Hi everyone! I haven’t released a theme in what seems like forever (around 3 months or something..). I know I’ve been a little very inactive on Excolo for a while and I’m now going to officially announce that I will be going on hiatus until further notice. The main reasons for this are:

1. School. I have school, I have assignments, I have exams. I don’t have the time to commit to weekly or even monthly theme making because of this.
2. I am currently re-defining my skills. I believe I still have a heap to learn when it comes to web design and I am currently not really happy with my themes (back-end codes, design, aesthetics etc.). I want to take a break, learn as much as I can and then produce something I can be really happy.
3. I am working on an exciting new project! I’m not going to unveil it yet because there is a lot still to do and I am working at snail pace. But I can say that it involves Tumblr themes, and I will be doing something that I have wanted to do for a long time. More will be revealed closer to the date. (I’m going to go out on a limb and say that this project won’t be done until September/October-or maybe even the end of the year..)

I am sorry for not being able to make Tumblr themes on a regular basis because I know how much you guys enjoy them and I really enjoy making themes for you too. 

I will be answering questions still, and will be posting resources and whatnot here and there.

And to end, here’s a joke (Only theme makers/web designers will get this.. hahaha) —

“A web designer walked into a bar, but left immediately in disgust because he/she didn’t like the table layout”

theme-hunter:

RESOURCE ROUND-UP #3

jQuery (Tumblr) Photoset Grid (linked to here as well)

Koken (not tumblr related but for anyone planning on hosting a site or alike)

Lorem Pixel (I’m sure everyone is familiar with Lorem Ipsum, this is the image placeholder)

Coffitivity (my personal favourite - recreates a coffee shop vibe to help creativity)

CSS Beautifier

Imageloader.js

CSS Only Alternative to the Select Element

Custom Google Background (not theme related but I’m sure we have a lot of Google/Chrome users)

Wow this resource round-up is great. I’m definitely loving JS photoset grid and Koken!

Just informing you…

that I probably won’t be answering any questions over the next week. There are a few reasons for this:

• school is coming up, I need to finish my 2 assignments which I’ve been putting off until the last few days of the holidays
• I’ve got commissioned work to complete
• and my internet recently got capped. in Australia our internet service providers cap our internet. I’m on a 120GB plan and and my brothers and I have used up all of that internet and there’s still a week left of the billing month, meaning my internet is now CRAZY slow and it takes like 20 minutes to load up someone’s blog so I probably won’t be able to diagnose the problem etc.

I am working on a new theme… but its slow progress. don’t except it soon.

thank you and have a nice day! c:

Responsive Tumblr photosets with jQuery Photoset Grid

buildthemes:

jQuery Photoset Grid makes Tumblr photosets resizeable (no more chopped off photosets), breaking the constraints of Tumblr’s own photoset script which can only be set to widths of 250px, 400px, 500px or 700px .

This plugin was originally used internally in Style Hatch’s premium Tumblr themes, but has now being released for free use by the folks at Style Hatch.

Using Photoset Grid: the Basics

HTML

The HTML is based on the photoset block, remember to include photosets within the posts block:

{block:Photoset}
  <div class="photoset" data-layout="{PhotosetLayout}" data-id="photoset{PostID}">
    {block:Photos}
      <img src="{PhotoURL-500}" />
	{/block:Photos}

  {block:Caption}
	{Caption}
  {/block:Caption}
{/block:Photoset}

Be sure to reference the jQuery library and Photoset Grid plugin in your HTML:

<script src="//ajax.googleapis.com/ajax/libs/jquery/1.9.1/jquery.min.js"></script>
<script src="http://static.tumblr.com/wgijwsy/jgemkyt9x/jquery.photoset-grid.min.js"></script>

jQuery

At the most basic level, the jQuery plugin simply has to be called like so:

<script>
$('.photoset').photosetGrid();
</script>

By default, the plugin generates a responsive grid without space (gutter) between images.

Be sure to check out the theme documentation to further customize your photoset with options, a lightbox plugin, plus HTML for a Tumblr photoset that links each image.

Download the plugin at Github

Read complete documentation

OMG THANK YOU SO MUCH. THIS IS AMAZING c: