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RockinDark1 - 3 Column Wordpress Theme Released

March 7, 2007

RockinDark1


RockinDark1 is a the first in a series of dark themes from RockinThemes.com. It features a dark grey background, black sidebars, and a beautiful grey/blue/green color scheme. For all you minimalists out there, this is a great theme for you because RockinDark1 comes in 2 versions: A text header version for quick and easy implementation, or a graphical header version for those of you who want to use your own custom header image.

Key Features:

  • Widgetized
  • Dark Color Scheme
  • Replaceable Header image or…
  • Text header
  • Easy reading
  • Top Page Navigation

Download the text header version here (1625)
Download the graphical header version here
Demo it here (text) and here (graphical)

This is a free Wordpress Theme!

Bugs:
None reported yet.

Changelog:
No changes yet.

Visit the author’s website at www.nathanrice.org

Comments and support are welcome in the comments section below.

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Comments

16 Responses to “RockinDark1 - 3 Column Wordpress Theme Released”

  1. Evan on March 7th, 2007 10:28 am

    Hey, love the theme, will be using it. Could you please include the PSD to edit the header though?! Thanks!

  2. Nathan Rice on March 7th, 2007 10:49 am

    Thanks for the kudos!
    The psd for the header is available here

    Enjoy!
    Nathan

  3. Evan on March 7th, 2007 11:26 am

    Thanks a bunch! Feed’ing for the next themes.

  4. Weblog Tools Collection » Blog Archive » WordPress Theme Releases for 3/08 on March 8th, 2007 12:28 am

    [...] RockinDark1 is a widgetized, three column theme that features a dark grey background, black sidebars, and a beautiful grey/blue/green color scheme. [...]

  5. Phil on March 9th, 2007 1:52 pm

    I love the theme. I am very fussy but this one really fits the bill. Many thanks.

  6. Jeff on March 9th, 2007 7:36 pm

    Finally a 3 column theme that is a great template for customization. I’m having trouble with the left sidebar, however. You’ll see that it’s adding a few tags and causing a larger bottom gap than desired. If you could explain, or point me in the right direction of learning how to get rid of this, it would be appreciated.

    Also, I’m sure once I figure this out I can apply it to bring the Search field on the right sidebar up a bit, too.

    http://l402.com/let-loose

  7. Jeff on March 9th, 2007 7:39 pm

    Sorry for omitting relevant facts. The specific field adding tags is “Topics.”

  8. Jeff on March 9th, 2007 7:51 pm

    Nevermind. I did some research and found some work-arounds. Sorry to clutter your page! Great theme, again!

  9. Jeff on March 10th, 2007 12:15 am

    Hi. I’m back.

    I managed to add images as headers for both of the Links categories, but now I can’t seem to figure out how to drop the text down to the same amount as the other sidebar h2’s. I searched the Wordpress help forums but nothing is exact. Perhaps you can help?

    http://l402.com/let-loose

  10. | Wordpress Tutorials And Blogging Tips on March 10th, 2007 3:35 am

    [...] RockinDark1 is a sleek and stylish three column theme in two different versions. There is a “graphical” version, which uses a modern image for the blogs title, or a “text” version, which allows quick adjustment to your own blogs title, in plain text. [...]

  11. Nathan Rice on March 10th, 2007 10:07 am

    Jeff,

    I’ve looked through your source code.
    It looks like your “headers” are also items, followed by another nested ul. That really complicates things (something I didn’t foresee). Try (if you haven’t already) adding padding/margin to the header element or the class of li you’ve got there. also, you may try adding margin/padding to the li ul element (a nested ul).

    That’s about all I can do for you without working with the code myself. Sorry.

    Nathan

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  13. Jeff on March 12th, 2007 4:23 am

    I figured it out. I needed to finagle the CSS a bit…

    #linkcat-3 ul {
    padding-top: 35px;
    background-image: url('http://l402.com/let-loose/wp/images/rockindark/audio-links.gif');
    background-repeat: no-repeat;
    }

    #linkcat-4 ul {
    padding-top: 35px;
    background-image: url('http://l402.com/let-loose/wp/images/rockindark/visual-links.gif');
    background-repeat: no-repeat;
    }

    #linkcat-3 h2 {
    padding-top: 20px;
    display:none;
    }

    #linkcat-4 h2 {
    padding-top: 20px;
    display:none;
    }

    There may have been a cleaner way, but this does indeed work.

  14. Nathan Rice on March 12th, 2007 10:36 am

    Jeff,

    The site looks fantastic!!! I’m glad to see you got it working alright.

    Nathan

  15. Jeff on March 13th, 2007 4:01 pm

    Thanks! Like I said, I had been searching for the right theme that I knew I could customize to my needs and yours was perfect! Keep up the awesome work!

  16. Rizal on April 28th, 2007 4:15 am

    Like this theme it clean and fast loading. I need change my theme because old theme make my blog slow loading.

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