Life

• Images are free to use, but not distribute, and credits must remain for the photos.

Features

• Life's default theme is optimized for a resolution width of 1024px, but does come with some puedo-elastic options for larger or smaller displays
  - The "shrink" layout adjusts the theme to a 2 column layout by moving the left navigation to the top of the page instead
  - The "stretch" layout has a % width for the main content column of 60%, thus allowing the page to stretch, but still not making the reading area to large
• Valid, tableless, semantic XHTML 1.0 Strict & CSS code
• Incorporated basic SEO structure, such as making the post headings in H1 tags, and moving the content closer to the top of the page
• Extremely customizable design
  - One layout css and a secondary css that controls the skins (color schemes)

Installation

1. The Plugins

   Install the plugins within the plugin directory and make them active.

2. The Images

   Either upload the images using FTP or your Textpattern control panel. If you are using the control panel and the filenames of the images change, remember to change them in the pages as well.

   You can find the main header images in the form named - "header-images". You can find the RSS/ATOM images in the form named - "feeds".

   The header images may easily be changed to your personal choice. The dimension for each image is 65px in width by 75px in height.

3. The Pages

   All of the pages can be found within the "pages" folder, as text files. Copy the contents of each file into the page (with the same filename) within your Textpattern control panel.

   Note: Within the pages, if you get an error about 'sitename' - you may need to change that varible to 'site_name'.

4. The Forms

   All of the forms can be found within the "forms" folder, as text files. You will need to create a few new forms - use the same filenames for your new forms, for the forms that already exist - copy and paste the new content into the Textpattern default forms with the same filename. The form 'page' needs to be of type 'article', and the others can be misc.

5. The CSS

   Create 3 css with the textpattern control panel with the names 'default', 'shrink', 'stretch', and copy over the css from the style folder. The 'default-skin' css needs to be uploaded into your main or root directory. If you grab alternate skins, you will have to upload it to the main directory and change the name within the 'head' form.

6. The Sections

   I am using only the default sections that comes with the Textpattern install. In your sections, verify that you have one called 'default', which uses the page called default and the css called default, also there is one called 'archive', which corresponds to 'archive' and 'default', and finally and 'about' section, which corresponds to about and default.

7. Articles

   If you are writing articles that are not 'posts', for example, an about page, you may use the form_overwrite option and set it to 'page'.

   The homepage displays the article excerpts, you need to put in an excerpt on each article.