Andyblue and del.icio.us
I have been looking for a better Wordpress theme than the out of the box Kubrick theme. I like the theme, but I was looking for a fluid look. I do not think fixed dimensions are that great, especially when I play on posting some code every now and then to my blog. I really only had three requirements 1) fluid 2) supports sidebar widgets 3) not too flashy.
Anyways, I came across the Andyblue theme by searching the Wordpress themes. It was the most popular fluid theme. I would prefer some of the images and headers to have a little more professional look than a community look, but I am sure that most people who use the theme like that aspect. After installing the theme, the biggest problem I had was the theme’s CSS did not play well with my del.icio.us tag roll. I could have spent a lot of time correct the CSS, but the easiest thing to do was to create an iframe and include it in the sidebar. After finding the correct dimensions for the sidebar, I used the following to render the cloud in a text widget:
<iframe src="delicious.html" scrolling="no" frameborder="0" width="160" height="180">
</iframe>
And the original HTML for the cloud in delicious.html:
<html>
<head>
<link rel="stylesheet" href="http://www.hausertechnologies.com/wordpress/wp-content/themes/default/style2.css" type="text/css" media="screen" />
<head>
<body>
<div id="sidebar">
<ul>
<li>
<script type="text/javascript" src="http://del.icio.us/feeds/js/tags/ewhauser?icon;count=31;size=10-20;color=87ceeb-0000ff;title=my%20del.icio.us%20tags;name"></script>
</li>
</ul>
</div>
</body>
</html>
Maybe not the optimal solution, but it beat spending an unordinate amount of time fixing the CSS just to display a few links on the site.
