VIALA v1.0

Wordpress Theme coded and designed by David Garlitz, design.davidgarlitz.com

Viala 1.0 is a clear, wide-open theme with a Featured post home page. 
Visit the theme's option pages in order to customize the pages and subpages that are displayed in the navigation bar, as well as the number of "subposts" (post excerpts that are displayed under the featured post) to be displayed on the home page. You can also decide which category to designate as the "feature" category, or turn this function off and let the most recent post be the the featured post.

Viala 1.0 also has 2 separate sidebars, one for the home page and one for all other pages. On the home page, sidebar elements are treated similarly to "subposts." Although these settings are flexible, it is recommended that you limit the total number of subposts and sidebar items to 4, so as to preserve the layout and prevent float problems in the event of a sidebar item being longer that the items next to it.

Viala's "header" can be customized in the theme options panel. This header image will appear next to any feature article on the homepage. If you wish to replace the header image with another image that should be associated directly with a given post, simply add the custom field "pic" to your post, and insert the URL to the image that you would like to use. NOTE: for best results, these "pic" images should be the same size as the header image, ie  400px X 300px.

Single posts can include a table of contents. Simply create a list of links to anchors within the post, then cut and paste this list into a custom field called "toc." The list will now appear in the left sidebar of the single post page - post meta info is deplaced to the bottom of the post.

For more information, please contact David Garlitz, info@davidgarlitz.com
All rights reserved © 2008 David Garlitz.

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CHANGELOG:

Version 1.2:
- Hid overflowing text on mini-excerpts and on the homepage feature excerpts with max-heights and overflow: hidden.*
- Gave Blog Description text a max-width to prevent it from breaking navigation if the blog description is too long.*
- Fixed bug in the default setting for posts to display under the feature on install.
- Fixed margins in sidebar.
- Adjusted indent on header and post images.
- Fixed bug in 404 page.
* Since IE does not accept max-height and width css commands, a compromise was made by selecting an appropriate height and width for each element. This creates some slightly different behavior, but should preserve the integrity of the theme in IE.