Just released the code for the 0.9 version. Changes from the experiments of 0.8 are listed on the project page, but the most important ones are that the theme is now fully compatible with

• Internet Explorer 7 and 8
• Mozilla Firefox 2
• Mozilla Firefox 3
• Google Chrome
• Apple Safari

And there are lots of visual improvements, too. Go to see them on the project page, and grab the code, too!
Obviously, coding for the 1.0 release has just started, and you will see the changes in the theme applied on my blog.

As I promised more than 2 months ago, I’ve just released the sourcecode of the wordpress theme on my blog. BD-theme 0.8 is a set of experiments that will bring me to the final release, I cannot promise that it will work perfectly on every browser, but it will almost do the job. Meanwhile, I’m working since 7 days to the next release, 0.9, that should bring to the blog a final layout.
UPDATE 2008-08-22: The theme you’re actually seeing in the blog is what will become BD-theme 0.9. I’m testing it.

Time for a review. Thanks to the always useful DistroWatch.com service, I discovered a new Gnu/Linux distribution, called gOS. gOS stands for Good Os, born in 2007 in California. The version I’m reviewing is the so-called “gOS 3 ‘Gadgets’”, their third release. gOS 3 Gadgets BETA is based on Ubuntu 8.04.1, and the final release is to be expected in the next 1-2 months.
This distribution is built around Goggle apps and services, comes with Google Gadgets for Linux pre-installed, as well other nice programs, like Google Picasa, Wine, Mozilla Prism for Google web applications and Wbar as launch bar. I’ve never heard about this bar, it’s very quick and light. Good choice! The distro also includes proprietary codecs for multimedia content.
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As you see, the blog has a brand new theme! the blog’s theme has got a new, fresh look! I decided to bring some new improvements and a change in the layout. Let me experiment with it, fix some bugs and then I will release the source code, as always

BD-blog has a new fresh theme! I’ve written it quite from scratch and I’m very proud of this. Of sure, it doesn’t look as cool as the old one, but I’m not a designer and I really wanted to write my own theme.
You can download it here: http://bd-things.net/projects/bd-theme/. You should wait a stable release (=1.0) before downloading it, because I’ve just uploaded it and is under testing.

BD-theme is a widget ready, two columns Wordpress style, written using the default Wordpress theme as php/xhtml base. The theme is inspired by TorrentFreak rounded layout, and some little ideas are inspired by Curved Theme, which was the old BD-blog theme.
I just wanted to write my own Wordpress theme.
This is my first theme, and my first try to design something nice. Source code is available below.

If you like BD-blog theme, then download BD-theme =)

Warning! The template is still not valid XHTML! I’ll correct it before release 1.0!

Download:

• 2008-09-19 - version 0.9
  Changes from 0.8-experiment:
  • Fully Compatible with Mozilla Firefox 2/3, Internet Explorer 6,7,8, Google Chrome, Apple Safari
  • More harmonious and stable
  • Links to pages are now rounded corner buttons
  • Buttons for pages moved over main layout, added a button for accessing the blog posts
  • The current page link button gets the same background color of the content page
  • Post header layout changed: a very nice band contains the title of the post and the date of posting exits the main layout
  • Various CSS fixes
  • Screenshot:
    

    BD-theme 0.9 Screenshot

  What will be next:

  • CSS bugs totally fixed (I hope :D)
  • Theme has to pass w3c’s xhtml/css validations
  • Theme has to remain compatible with all browsers

• 2008-08-21 - version 0.8 - experiment
  About:
  • Quite everything changed in the last 6 months, but the colors
  • This is the source code of the experiments done from the post of 06-06-2008: BD-theme’s new look
  • NOT to be considered as a stable release, code is very dirty (but almost functional)
  • It’s the base I’ve been using since 7 days for the final release, It’s available because somebody may like it more than the next version, or to modify it
  • An image helps more than a thousand words:
    
    

    BD-theme 0.8, the Experiment

    
    
    

    BD-theme 0.2 - Classic

• 2008-02-21 - version 0.2
  Changes:
  • fixed a:hover transparency bug in #pages
  • fixed .entry links and img
  • added a stlye for blockqoute
  • fixed some values of the searchform in the sidebar (safari fix)
  • added a style for the links inside the #footer section
• 2008-01-24 - version 0.1
  First version, download it just if you want to customize it or to create a new theme based on this one. I’m testing it on my blog. It may contain “useless” code from the default Wordpress Theme