alessandro melandri

Octopress Theme Customization

I received a positive feedback on the Octopress theme customization I wrote for this website, so I decided to publish the modifications I made to the default theme.

I followed the Theming & Customization instructions and modified only the ”custom” files beacuse I wanted to be able to upgrade Octopress without having to re-apply my changes every time.

Feel free to use the following code, just please give me credit and some backlink love.

First of all I changed the main layout width because I wanted the article content to be 640px wide, a populare image format, especially if you use Flickr.
I love the modern browser ability to resize images on the fly, but I prefer to keep my pages as light as possible, so I try to post images that fit the layout.

sass/custom/_layout.scss 
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$max-width: 1037px;
$sidebar-width-medium: 286px;
$sidebar-width-wide: 286px;

Then I changed the default font and set it to Lato, including the font from Google Fonts

sass/custom/_fonts.scss 
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$sans: "Lato", sans-serif;
$serif: "Lato", sans-serif;
$heading-font-family: 'Lato', sans-serif;
$header-title-font-family: "League", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif;
source/_includes/custom/head.html 
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<link href='http://fonts.googleapis.com/css?family=Lato:400,700,400italic,700italic' rel='stylesheet' type='text/css'>

And finally I wrote my custom CSS. I use some external resource in my style:

sass/custom/_styles.scss 
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@font-face {
  font-family: "League";
  src: url('/font/LeagueGothic.otf');
}

a:visited, #content .blog-index article h1 a:hover { color: #1863A1; }


/* ----- main layout ----- */


html { background: #262C33 url("/images/line-tile.png"); }

body { font-size: 1em; }

body > div { background-image: none; }

body > div > div { background-image: none; }


/* ----- header ----- */


body > header{
  background: none;
  padding: 1.6em 0 1em 0
}

body > header h1{
  font-size: 2.8em;
  padding-left: 20px;
  text-shadow: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.8) 0 0 8px;
}

body > header h2{
  font-size: 0.5em;
  letter-spacing: 1px;
  margin-top: -1.4em;
  padding-left: 20px;
}

body > nav {
  padding-top: .15em;
  padding-bottom: .15em;
}

body > nav a{
  font-size: 1em;
  line-height: 1.4em;
}

body > nav form .search{
  padding: .2em .3em;
}


/* ----- Content ----- */


#content .blog-index article h1 {
  font-size: 1.8em;
  font-weight: normal;
}

#content .blog-index article h1, #content .blog-index article h1 a, article header h1, article header h1 a{
  color: #555555 !important;
}

h1 { font-size: 1.8em; }

h1 span{
  font-weight: normal;
  color: #E0841B;
}

article h2, article h3, article header h1{
  font-weight: normal;
}

.blog-index article h1 a:hover{ text-decoration: none; }

article p {
  text-align:justify;
  margin-bottom: 1em;
}


/* ----- Sidebar ----- */


aside.sidebar section h1 { letter-spacing: 0.1em; }

aside.sidebar a { text-decoration: none; }

.toggle-sidebar{display: none;}

ul#gh_repos > li > a{
  display: block;
  font-weight: bold;
  margin-bottom: 0.4em;
}

aside.sidebar{
  -moz-border-radius-topright: 0.4em;
  -webkit-border-radius: 0 0.4em 0 0;
  border-radius: 0 0.4em 0 0;
}


/* ----- Footer ----- */


body > footer{
  -moz-border-radius: 0;
  -webkit-border-radius: 0;
  border-radius:0;
  margin-bottom: 0;
}


/* ----- 404 ----- */


.notfound404 article{
  margin-left: 0 !important;
}


/* ----- Media queries ----- */


@media only screen and (min-width: 550px) {

  body > header h1{
      background: url("/favicon.png") no-repeat 0 8px;
      padding-left: 60px;
  }

  body > header h2 { padding-left: 60px; }

  body > footer { margin-bottom: 3em; }
}

@media only screen and (min-width: 1040px) {

  body > nav {
    -moz-border-radius: 0.4em;
    -webkit-border-radius: 0.4em;
    border-radius:0.4em;
    margin-bottom: 2em;
  }

  body > footer{
      -moz-border-radius-bottomleft: 0.4em;
      -moz-border-radius-bottomright: 0.4em;
      -webkit-border-radius: 0 0 0.4em 0.4em;
      border-radius: 0 0 0.4em 0.4em;
  }

  #main{
      -moz-border-radius-topleft: 0.4em;
      -moz-border-radius-topright: 0.4em;
      -webkit-border-radius: 0.4em 0.4em 0 0;
      border-radius: 0.4em 0.4em 0 0;
  }

  #content{
      -moz-border-radius-topleft: 0.4em;
      -webkit-border-radius: 0.4em 0 0 0;
      border-radius: 0.4em 0 0 0;
  }

  #content .blog-index a[rel="full-article"]{
      -webkit-border-radius: 6px;
      -moz-border-radius: 6px;
      border-radius: 6px;
  }
}