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Tulip Time 1.0a

Tulip Time 1.0a

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Fun and flowery! 3 column widget friendly liquid layout design. XHTML 1.0 Strict and Search Engine friendly.

Author: Highlands by Design

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Tags: 3 columns, Fluid width, Left sidebar, Orange, Right sidebar, Rounded corners, Widget ready

Downloads: 4,581

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  1. Hey guys,

    This is my first Wordpress theme. I’m sure there’s probably quite a few problems with it as I’m still getting used to the Wordpress template system. Hopefully it’s still useable as a theme though!

    Thanks :)

    John

    Comment by John — December 2, 4:55

  2. I have to say this theme really caught my eye. So often somebody posts a link to an interesting article that happens to be in a blog. I usually just read that article and leave. This theme for reasons I can’t explain invites me to stay and read more than the initial article. Maybe its the colours or maybe its the layout..I don’t know forsure…but what I do know is that it works. Well done!

    Comment by Dave — December 3, 23:05

  3. Oh I should have given the designer a rating…never too late I guess!

    cheers
    Dave

    Comment by Dave — December 3, 23:07

  4. Nice a bright theme. Any chance to have it widgetized?

    Comment by Jeremy — December 4, 21:10

  5. I’ve started playing around with a couple different options (for another theme), but will add them to this as well. Next update will be widgetized (and hopefully it’ll all work ok :)

    Comment by John — December 7, 2:24

  6. What’s weird is I didn’t actually vote at all, and it set it to vote 5. I hope it doesn’t do it again this time as well. I don’t want to look like an ego manic!

    Comment by John — December 7, 2:25

  7. Hey I love it. Plus John has been a great help getting me going with publishing. Thanks bud!

    Comment by rob-ster — December 7, 17:56

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  9. Ended my search for a funky yet functional theme!

    Thanks a fkin lot!

    Comment by Yuvi — December 17, 2:54

  10. Oops, forgot to rate:

    Comment by Yuvi — December 17, 2:54

  11. [...] I just changed my theme from Freshy by jide to Tulip Time by Highland Design. Though the old theme was pretty colorful and, well, “fresh”, It just wasted too much space for me. So, I was on the lookout for a three column theme, and after hitting upon a lot of themes, I finally found this theme. It was love at first sight, and kudos to John, especially considering that it was his first theme! [...]

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  12. Awesome!

    Comment by Tuf — December 20, 0:31

  13. nice for a first design - the patterns aren’t really my thing.. but it works for some ;)

    Comment by JWM — December 24, 5:51

  14. nice for a first design - the patterns aren’t really my thing.. but it works for some

    Comment by JWM — December 24, 5:51

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  16. I love the look of this theme!!

    I don’t understand the whole WP need to be so slender and not use all of the width available on the screen.. thanks for utilizing the width!

    As a personal request, this would be fantastic in a purple!! :)

    Love it, keep up the good work!

    Comment by Sarah Lena — December 31, 4:12

  17. I still need to modify it to fit my site, but this theme is just awesome!

    Comment by Drunk Bunny — January 6, 16:25

  1. This just blew my mind. It is angular, and beautiful.

    Comment by Bazooka Joe Zone — January 11, 2:29

  2. Is is it just me? or do the dropdowns not work in IE?

    Comment by Jesse — January 13, 5:24

  3. I just modifyied the index.php file and got the following error message on my blog after uploading the modified file. “Fatal error: Call to undefined function: get_header() in /nfsn/content/mapleliving/htdocs/index.php on line 1″

    So I reverted back to the old file, reuploaded and I’m still getting the same error message. What did I do wrong? Help…

    Comment by viclife — January 14, 8:58

  4. This theme is just too good. Awesome! I’m voting with my blog!

    Comment by Vijay Krishna — January 15, 8:58

  5. The dropdowns do work in IE7.

    Comment by Michelle — January 15, 18:46

  6. I’ve updated this theme to fix the widget display problems that were occurring. I’ve also included a changelog.txt file which should make it easier to manage when the theme is updated. Hopefully nothing else breaks.

    thanks :)

    John

    Comment by grantmoney — January 16, 6:24

  7. viclife: Not sure what the problem might be, but try deleting/moving the currently active skin, and then check your Wordpress install and it should default to Kubrik. Then just move or copy it back to the themes folder and reselect it. Hopefully that should work.

    Comment by grantmoney — January 16, 6:26

  8. Hi John,

    I really love this template. You can see mine in action at http://www.spaparazzi.com

    However I have a couple of issues. I am sure if you look at my source code you could figure this out easily enough.

    As you can see the LEFT Sidebar (in blue) is extending ABOVE the navigation area and should be level like the RIGHT sidebar displays. I am pulling my hair out of course because its just not happening.

    Also my DOC type in the source code has a blank space above it. I am not sure what is going on. The only time I don’t see it in the source is if I click on the actual post title hyperlinked from the post itself (in the middle)

    I had to change my DOC type to Transitional due to the fact that I needed to use certain attributes such as TARGET-_blank, but even when I had it set to strict this still occured. I have removed plug-ins,checked for white space above and below all of my files for the template and nothing there.

    Concerned as I am reading if this blank area appers that is messes you up big time with being listed in the search engines.

    The other issue is the slowness I am experiencing with loading this template and my host infatically states, it’s not them. I have been all over the WP support site and getting nowhere with this.

    HELP! I really don’t want to re-install this……just need to be able to fix these few issues.

    I’ll be honest though, I am not a php expert, so thought I better tell you this upfront!

    Comment by Brenda — January 23, 22:20

  9. OK I seemed to have fixed the LEFT Sidebar (in blue) which was extending ABOVE the navigation area, so now its level with the RIGHT sidebar displayed…(think the image I used was too short lengthwise actually.)

    But I have a BIGGER problem now.

    When I MINIMIZE the screen it makes my sidebars move into the middle… UGH! Can anyone tell me why this might be happening or see the code I have altered in a way that would have done this?

    I have not ever minimized this page until just now so who knows when this may have started!

    HELP!

    Comment by Brenda — January 24, 0:33

  10. The funny thing is it only does this on my HOME page.

    If you navigate to the recent POSTS or ABOUT US…. and minimize, the screen its normal.

    Whats up with this??? ;o(

    Comment by Brenda — January 24, 1:35

  11. Well I changed the colors of the sidebars but as you can see, before it loads all the way, the LEFT SIDE extends all the way to the top of the screen, its just that our banner logo is covering it now.

    Please I would really like to know why this is and what I need to do to correct it.

    I don’t remember changing any parameters.

    Comment by Brenda — January 25, 4:24

  12. IN regards to this problem mentioned above:

    “Also my DOC type in the source code has a blank space above it. I am not sure what is going on. The only time I don’t see it in the source is if I click on the actual post title hyperlinked from the post itself (in the middle)”

    I recieved this reply elsewhere:

    “Actually it does not refer to the top of your page (in source code speak, so to say). The stylesheet is putting that breadcrumb at the top of your page more than likely. What I am referring to is where in your system is the actual doctype declaration being printed out? Is it in a function somewhere? Search through your source code to find ‘DOCTYPE’ and see.”

    OK that sounds good I am just not sure what to do about it. If someone could respond as I am not very php savvy.

    Comment by Brenda — January 25, 5:11

  13. I am showing THREE index files uploaded to my server for this THEME Tulip Time_5

    Again ALL index.php but landing in different areas.

    I thought there could only be ONE? Won’t these cause confusion for the server and WP?

    Below are the paths for each
    ____________________________________

    /wp-admin/

    File size 6,032
    _____________________

    / this is the root directory

    File size 95
    ____________________

    In wp/admin/

    File size 32
    ____________________

    If these are in the wrong place or a couple of those mentioned should NOT be there at all, could this have to do with my constant cannot connect to server issues I am having with WP or my host????

    Because otherwise I am still grasping here for straws.

    This is a brand new install, only been up a week.

    Comment by Brenda — January 25, 5:46

  14. Hi Brenda,

    Gimme a little while to go through your questions and I’ll get back to you as soon as I can.

    ***********

    ”before it loads all the way, the LEFT SIDE extends all the way to the top of the screen, its just that our banner logo is covering it now.”

    This is the way the page renders so it’ll display the column images to the left and right (while keeping the fluid/liquid layout). It would be possible to start the left column background after the header image, but it would require extra divs, and I usually try to avoid using too many divs as the code can end up a huge mess. Not sure if that makes sense, but hopefully it did! I always feel dirty when I add extra divs to fix any issues, so I avoid it all costs usually. If you want that bit fixed, I’ll see if there are any work arounds that don’t require extra divs (I don’t have the templates here at the moment to double check).

    ***********

    “Also my DOC type in the source code has a blank space above it. I am not sure what is going on. The only time I don’t see it in the source is if I click on the actual post title hyperlinked from the post itself (in the middle)”

    This could be occurring in a couple places. Check that there isn’t an extra line at the top of either index.php (before the ), or header.php (before ).

    What browser are you using when you notice the minimise problem? I don’t have access to my work computer at the moment, but I’ll check that out and get back to you. I do remember there was an issue with IE5/6 that would move the columns around if the browser window was resized to less than about 600 wide, but I thought I fixed that. I’ll double check that over the weekend.

    BTW I love what you’ve done to the template!

    Thanks :)

    John

    Comment by John — January 25, 5:49

  15. Hi John,

    Thanks for checking in. I know its pretty amazing when we customize these templates to fit our own business, how different they end up looking!

    OK, the sidebars displaying in the middle has been resolved, thank goodness. But I sure need your help on another level. ;0)

    My header image is rather large as you can see, going across. I renamed it as the page_header.jpg, replacing the one that came in the original template.

    Image size is about 32.7KB as compressed.
    The header banner is 1250 x 166 pixels

    I felt it needed to be that wide because if I shortened it across, the repeat comes up, to where the hyperlinked TITLE is appearing over the darker part of the image banner itself, making it very difficult to read.

    Also, in a 17″ browser it looks fine, BUT when I look at a 15″ browser it doesn’t display the entire header. It cuts it off on the LEFT side about 2 inches. Ugh!

    Any way around this?

    Is there a code modification that would allow the image to automatically adjust to the width of anyones monitor, so this doesn’t happen?

    Forgive me but I am again not php code savvy at all! LOL

    Comment by Brenda — January 26, 4:37

  16. Looks great!

    I’ll be modifying a bit and using it on my website soon.

    Comment by Mjuboy — January 28, 12:39

  17. Hey, loving this theme, I modified it for a friend, but I do seem to be having the issue where if IE5/6 is used and the window width is less than 600, people can’t read a darn thing, especially on the comments pages.

    Any suggestions? Normally I wouldn’t be too concerned (hello, upgrade to IE7, people! hehe), but the girl has several regular readers who all seem to have this problem.

    Comment by Kate — January 28, 22:53

  1. Hi I am having an issue with the drop down menu under my Featured Expert area in the navigation not appearing.

    I was told by my programmer to contact you about the folllowing issue. Here are his comments:

    “The problem here is that Microsoft ignored some CSS standards when they designed IE6. Many web designers worked around those problems and coded things specifically for IE6. Whoever designed your theme (or plugin? I’m not sure which is generating those drop down menus) did not code it for IE6. They either believed in sticking to standards or knew that IE7 would fix the problem.

    The best bet for fixing this would be to contact the author of the theme or plugin and ask if they have a workaround for IE6. You definitely don’t want to mess with a solution found anywhere else, unless it’s specific to the theme or plugin you are using. Those kind of solutions work if implemented by a knowledgeable designer, but it’s not a good idea for a casual user to try to implement. Anything you did would also disappear if you upgraded the theme/plugin later.”

    So as you can see I really need your help on this.

    Comment by Brenda Lopez — January 31, 17:21

  2. I love love LOVE this theme. The only change I made was to make multiple headers that load up each time the page is viewed - I think I have 10 or 12 header images rotating in and out (including the original tulip).

    I was looking for a theme with that “something” and this most definitely fits the bill!

    Comment by Jaynee — February 1, 22:28

  3. —————–
    Is there a code modification that would allow the image to automatically adjust to the width of anyones monitor, so this doesn’t happen?
    —————–

    You can use percentages with images, but i wouldn’t recommend it as it can look terrible. Your best bet is to make it seamless aligned left or right depending on where the header text is (in your case right).

    —————–
    Hi I am having an issue with the drop down menu under my Featured Expert area in the navigation not appearing.
    —————–

    There’s a few lines of javascript you can use to enable drop downs in ie5/6. I didn’t include it in the original versions of the themes as I didn’t think many people would really use it, but if you download the latest theme, you’ll see a tulip.js file. all you need to do is copy that file to your skin’s directory, and then add the script code to the header.php file. You’ll see an example of this in the newer header.php file.

    —————–
    Hey, loving this theme, I modified it for a friend, but I do seem to be having the issue where if IE5/6 is used and the window width is less than 600, people can’t read a darn thing, especially on the comments pages.
    —————–

    This is a huge problem with IE5/6, and as far as I know, without javascript or css hacks, there’s not really a great deal that can be done about it. I’ve always tried to avoid any css hacks, as you can’t guarantee it’ll work with future browsers (check out what happened to a lot of designs when ie7 appeared). I’ll take a look and see if I can make it work a little better with the next theme revision.

    Sorry for the delayed responses, been crazy busy lately, but will fix up a couple of the issues people are experiences (especially with ie5/6).

    Comment by john — February 2, 1:47

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  5. HI
    You suggested…..

    “Your best bet is to make it seamless aligned left or right depending on where the header text is (in your case right).”

    Ok I am not understanding how to put this into effect? Do I do this in the CSS file or header? Do you have the exact code I need to change and if you could be more specific it would really help. Not very PHP savvy..

    Also I am using Tulip_Time 5. Is it not the current version?
    You mentioned a tulip.js…I found it once I downloaded the new one, but needed to make sure what path I sent that to.

    Do I upload it to /public_html/wp-content/themes/tulip-time-05/ ???

    Again of you could also specify exactly where I insert this in the header file, as weIll as the other, I’d appreciate it. :0)

    Comment by Brenda Lopez — February 2, 19:53

  6. I have implemented this theme on my site.

    I have changed into blue and done some other changes.

    Great theme!

    Comment by Mjuboy — February 5, 12:57

  7. I absolutely LOVE this theme. Great job with this!

    I’m having a bit of trouble with an embedded Gallery2 - the plugin for embedding is called WPG2. Do you know how to make the gallery stretch across the page here?

    http://rosi-g.com/soapyknitter/wp-gallery2.php?g2_itemId=55

    The embedded gallery doesn’t use the sidebars of the blog.

    Also Spaparazzi, how did you get those drop-down menus at the top?? nice!

    Comment by Rosi g. — February 8, 20:36

  8. Very nice theme! I love orange and I love flowers so of course - I love this theme too!!

    Comment by LadyMoon — February 16, 15:16

  9. Hi All,
    Even i installed the same theme on my website http://www.net2dba.com
    I have several probs as below:
    1–Blogroll is not showing even though there are many links added in blogroll( i have many categories under links)
    2–Brenda(sparazzi) –nice personalisation
    how did u added those columns like abt author??
    3–how did u added signature in every post??

    Comment by jagsy — February 19, 10:29

  10. It’s a beautiful theme. The only problem is when you install sidebar widgets, alot of the text widgets like recent posts, categories and meta stretch outside the normal boundaries. Is there any way to fix this?

    Comment by Kate — March 8, 0:35

  11. Love this theme! It is so bright and leaves so much room for me to write, while giving easy access to all menu items.

    Comment by Holly — March 9, 3:40

  12. Hey guys,

    I’ll look into all the widget problems with the next version of the template. I tested it with the more standard widgets, but obviously didn’t with 99% of the ones available! I’ll see if I can work out how to make it work across the board!

    Comment by john — March 25, 23:44

  13. I just downloaded this theme two days ago and have been busy adapting it to fit my webpage. The oranges and yellows are gorgeous, but I took the diamonds out bc it did not suit my overall vision for the page. I, too, am having trouble with the blogroll import/list, but will hopefully get it figured out soon. Thanks so much for such a spectacular theme!

    Comment by Michelle — May 1, 22:22

  14. this is very nice theme, very cool.
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    Comment by blue — May 2, 11:23

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  17. thanks for the nice and bright template. i’ve dloaded it for my blog @ whoisbaby.net/blog
    love the colors and flowers. i am wondering if there is a way to change the fluid width to a fixed width for the center column. many thanks.

    Comment by whoisbaby — July 5, 22:35

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