Would anyone be interested?

[Jonnyism]

I have spent some time designing my website, if I was to make a release version would people be interested? :)

Here it is in action (http://www.jonnyhope.co.uk)

[pinkasimov]

Yes, I allways please to run new template to see how my pictures looks !
And your's seem to be really interresting to me. Is it based on the DarkMatter template ?

[Smartphoner]

Yes I am

[TheMarco]

It looks nice! I have a major gripe though: When clicking details or comments, you see the scrollbar grow but you don't actually see the panel expand. You may wanna scroll the window to the appropriate spot so the user will see what's happening.

I did this with the opening of the comment form in Dark Matter.

[Jonnyism]

Yes, I allways please to run new template to see how my pictures looks !
And your's seem to be really interresting to me. Is it based on the DarkMatter template ?

It's completely made from scratch, I made a html only mockup and then attempted to make it run through pixelpost, which I think I have done successfully.

I did like the Darkmatter template, but I always like my site to be my own, though I did make use of some java script that was included in the supaclean template, for the hover EXIF data on the image.

Thanks for the tip TheMarco, I will look into this, it is a problem i didn't notice at first due to designing it on a large monitor, but at work I can see your point as it all heads just off the screen.

There are still some tweaks I need to do to various sections, but I will deffinately consider making a version of this skin available. :)

[Scarabaeus]

Very good - new templates are always great to see.

[Jonnyism]

It looks nice! I have a major gripe though: When clicking details or comments, you see the scrollbar grow but you don't actually see the panel expand. You may wanna scroll the window to the appropriate spot so the user will see what's happening.

I did this with the opening of the comment form in Dark Matter.

Hi, TheMarco,

I have been trying to fathom a way of doing this, but my knowledge of javascript isn't all that, I tried doing it using <a name="x"> and <a href="#x"> but this hasnt worked due to the javascript which controls the link.

Could you give me a few pointers at all?

Thanks, Jonny.

[TheMarco]

Hi Jonnyism,

The least you can do is call:

window.scrollTo(0,10000);

AFTER the animation. This scrolls the window all the way down because of the (too) high Y value.

If I remember correctly you do this like this in JQuery:

element.slideDown("slow", function() {window.scrollTo(0,10000);});

First argument for slideDown is the speed (slow, medium or fast), second argument is a callback function which will fire after the animation has completed.

In YUI (which is what I use in Dark Matter) you can also fire a callback function at every step in the animation, this causes the whole screen to animate down as the element slides down. JQuery's slideDown doesn't seem to have this so the best you can do is probably what I wrote in here.

Hope this helps!

[Jonnyism]

Thanks, I shall give this a go and let you know how it goes :)

[Jonnyism]

I am now in the process of testing my release version, which can be found at http://dev.jonnyhope.co.uk

I have used the advice given to me by TheMarco above, I have also switched on the paged archive and edited the archive page to cope with this. I have also removed any of the pages which are specific to my own site (i.e. blog/contact).

My next job is to clean up the code, make it easily editable by anybody who choses to use the template and remove any unused CSS.

Is there anything else anybody would suggest I do before releasing this as a template?

[TheMarco]

Looking very nice! Excellent template.