Darkwater – Theme for Wordpress
06/21/07
Quiet, Peaceful……..tranquility.
That’s the best way I know of to describe Darkwater. This theme is a little different, and I’m rather proud of it. I wanted to do something a little more experimental with this one.
Darkwater is a 3 Column theme with two right sidears. It’s CSS valid and widget ready.
Preview and Download!
It looks really nice, I’m definitely impressed. It has a look to it that you don’t see a whole lot. Your’re turning into quite the Wordpress theme machine!
Thanks……it’s a little different, but I think it’s cool. I especially like the fixed background that doesn’t scroll.
Looks good. I’m sure this one will be pretty popular. You’re coming up with some great names for these themes as well. Really good branding Anthony!
On most of them, the name came along with the initial graphical idea…….way before the theme was finished. I’m glad someone thinks the names good.
OMG! Nice theme I found, anyway can I know if I can add a header on top? Please help me ya.
You definitely could add a header. The best way I know of to tell you how, is to send you to the right information. Look at this article on the Wordpress Codex for instructions. I’m glad you like the theme.
At this rate Anthony, you’ll have thousands of links back pointing to antbag.com and you’ll make the “most downloaded themes” on wordpress. You’re doing an awesome job buddy!
I’ve definitely gotten a lot of linkbacks as a result. I was noticing that earlier today when I happened to look at my Technorati profile……..hundreds, not thousands.
[...] Seit gestern Abend ist abhijitbossotto.com mit einem ganz neuen Layout verfügbar. Das Theme «Darkwater» stammt von Anthony Baggett und wurde von mir ein wenig an meine Bedürfnisse angepasst und [...]
[...] Darkwater is a 3-column, widget-ready theme done in dark colors with a watery header that’s very attractive. [...]
Dark and cool.. I like it
[...] Darkwater es un tema gratis para wordpress con 3 columnas, soporte widget, en colores oscuros y una cabecera muy atractiva. [...]
Hi
I’m totaly new to the blogging comunity. I just started blogging yesterday and my site isnt finished at all!
So i didn’t see alot of wordpress themes, but i really like this one! Great job Anthony! Keep it going on
greetings
Drazen
Thank you very much.
Nice!
Question. What are the dimensions of the text column? If I use this theme I may have to resize some pictures that my current theme currently handles.
Thanks.
Jack,
The text column width is 500px.
I’m up and running with Darkwater. It looks great; excellent job! I see you have version 1.1 now. What did you change or tweek?
Thanks.
Hey Jack,
In version 1.0, the left sidebar was only showing on the front page, so I fixed that and made it version 1.1. Now both side bars show up on all the site pages. That’s about the only change.
I uploaded it as a new theme by mistake. I was actually trying to upload an updated version in place of the first one, but followed the wrong upload link..hahaha. I emailed the WP Theme Viewer people and let them know what I did……they didn’t change it or respond.
Thanks for this great theme, perfect for my site, Surfing the Tao! Aloha and hope you have a great day
-Angela
Thank you for choosing it, Angela. If you run into any problems with it, please let me know!
[...] theme called the Darkwater written by Anthony Baggett of antbag.com was the base-skin that I used to start with. The theme has [...]
For some reason, with the DarkWater theme, my WordPress stats plugin isn’t working. I’m not sure if it’s the theme or a problem with the plugin.
Anyone else with this theme noticing a similar problem?
Regardless, I love the theme.
danithew,
I’m not sure about that one.
Hi Anthony — very cool theme, I’ve installed it for a friend and I have what I’m sure is a really stupid question. How can I change the text that reads “Blogroll” to something else (like “Links” or whatever)? I don’t see the Blogroll title showing up in the sidebar code, although I see Meta just fine.
Linda,
This is done in the WP dashboard under the “links” tab. Go to the “links categories” tab and you can edit the name there.
I love dark themes.. but I like Darkwater the most.. It’s something unique, thank you Anthony
What a nice thing to say, Roma. Thank you.
[...] called “Cheap Thrills” but have never released) for about five years. Came across this Darkwater template a few weeks ago and it’s been pecking away at my subconscious since. Made a few [...]
I still love the Dark Water theme … one thing I’m interested in trying to do (or seeing developed) is a version of Dark Water that has tabs for pages underneath the header. Would this kind of feature be difficult to integrate?
That probably wouldn’t be too difficult. I may consider doing something like that when I have time.
Anthony, I’d love to see what you’d do with that and I’d be among the first to download it. Thanks for responding.
Anthony, I found a theme that has tabs for pages in a style that I think could work well once it is adapated to Darkwater. _If_ you are interested in making that change, here is the theme (called Daleri Selection) I thought that did the job well.
I’m already trying to figure out how to implement the code to make it happen – but I’m just breaking my blog.
Thanks for the layout, it’s understated and clean.
Thought you might like to see how we’re using it.
Travis, Wow! That header image looks awesome with the theme…….looks like it was made to be there. Very impressive!
[...] today is a 2 Column version of my Darkwater theme for Wordpress. I’ve actually gotten several requests for this, so here it is for you guys who [...]
nice theme….thanks for advice..
I LOVE your Darkwater theme, but cannot get it to replace the stock theme I have on this site…I have downloaded to my desktop, but how to get it to talk to wordpress site !??
any advice would be greatly appreciated here…
Do I need to upgrade to CSS on Wordpress, or is there an easier way?
Many thanks – especially for creating this beautiful theme!
Debbi
Thanks Debbi. Unfortunately, it’s not available for blogs hosted on Wordpress.com. The only way to use it, is with a self-hosted install of Wordpress, where you would be able to upload the themes files onto your server. Paying to be able to edit CSS on wordpress.com wouldn’t work either, because the CSS has to work together with the XHTML of the theme, which is different in each theme.
Very nice theme Anthony, I have had several positive comments about it from both friends and foes. I do however have a small request, there is no search box in the 3 column version. Is there a chance you could provide the code for that?
Hi, there. I really like this theme and have had it up on a site of mine for nearly a year. Thanks very much. A question, now: I’ve just added a tag cloud on a Page, and even though I’m using the default format that’s supposed to just put whitespace between the tags, it’s coming out one tag per line. Any ideas?
Though I have yet to work out quite all the kinks like the tag cloud thing I mentioned above and some details about a few plugins, I’ve just “officially” announced the relaunch of my site that uses the Darkwater theme. It’s my personal site, http://marksmeritt.com/. In addition to continuing to be a central hub for various things I’m up to, I’ve added a new main feature to the site — an interactive resume/biography, which seemed to me a worthwhile and maybe novel thing to do. Thanks so much for the theme. Things are looking pretty good!
Mark,
I meant to answer earlier, sorry about that. I think the deal with the tag cloud is that the links in the sidebar are set to display as block elements. I think if you delete that line, the tag cloud should work.
.sidebar ul li a{
display: block;
text-decoration: none;
color:#9CF;
padding: 2px 2px;
}
Thanks for getting back to me. I should have clarified, though, that the tag cloud is in the body of the Page itself, not in a sidebar. I didn’t think that this change to the sidebar CSS would work, I tried it just to be sure, but as I suspected it didn’t work. Something else to try?
I’m in ur theme, usin’ ur pixels
Thanks for a very cool look – I’m getting complements!
~mark
Is this theme compatible with the latest version of WordPress 2.6.3
By the way, I love this theme. Thank you for making it.
No one has told me they’ve had a problem with this theme and the latest WP version. Honestly, I’ve not tried it myself.
Hi;
Receiving an edit error using Darkwater 2 column in WP 2.71 running on IIS.
“Sorry, that file cannot be edited.” on all files. While the files appears to actually be edited I still receive the error page.
Default WP 2.71 themes do not create this error. Just installed WP 2.7 a few days ago as a clean install in a new site and loaded Darkwater 2 column.
Jim
Jimmy, I’m not sure what to tell you. I have tested it out on an install of WP 2.7.1, and I’m not running into the same problem. It sort of sounds like the file permissions aren’t set right.
Thanks for the reply. The file permissions appear to be set to 777. I’ll keep investigating. By the way, love the theme. Thanks!
Jim
Hi Anthony;
The error message looks to be generated as if its trying to find a theme in the “Darkwater” directory and not the “Darkwater 2-column” directory
.com/wp-admin/theme-editor.php?file=/themes/Darkwater
So I created a directory named darkwater and loaded all the files there, no longer receive the error when editing.
Jim
I’m having issues with my site…is this theme 2.71 compatible?