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That’s a good idea James. It might make it hard for some people to find because they lok for the icon, but it’s right up the top there, so hopefully not. You could also have used .custom ul.menu li.rss a {background-image:none;} and added the feedburner link in the Thesis Options.
Your blog looks great!

Sure, if you downloaded a greyscale rss icon, 16x16px, and put it in you custom/images folder, you could use .custom ul.menu li.rss a {background-image:url(images/rss.png);}

Robin — You’re using an old version of Thesis. You need version 1.6 or above, or you can try renaming all the ul.menu elements to ul#tabs in custom.css.

nwng — Thanks for checking, but I don’t think there are any errors in the skin. I found a few errors on my test site, one set of errors was regarding the dropdown to change the skin view in the sidebar, which does not come with the skin and is only used on that site, the other was in the comment form, which is produced by Thesis and has nothing to do with the skin. The only CSS error I found was the CSS for the rounded corners on the download button, which is CSS3 or browser specific and therefore not intended to be CSS2 valid, and is also not available with the skin download. The CSS file that comes with the skin is completely valid.

Owen — I’m not sure where it’s gone just by looking at the site. I would try downloading a fresh copy of the skin and comparing the custom_functions.php files to see if there’s a bit missing, or just uploading a fresh copy of that file from the skin if you haven’t made any other changes to that file.

Eduardo — Your footer is not there because something is breaking the loading of your page after the “TODO!!” widget. To have post thumbnails see the video about in-post options, in particular the bit about post images and thumbnails.

Babusel — Beyond what I said in my other comment about checking out the CSS, no there’s no option to buy it (I just don’t have the time to implement it or write out the instructions for you right now). However, this site design is likely to be available as a skin sometime soon, so you may be able to harvest it from that when it’s available.

Aaron — In the CSS the lines that create that border are at the very top of the file:

.custom #page, .custom #header_area .page {border-top:0.5em solid #000; padding-top:1em;}
.custom #page, .custom #footer_area .page {border-bottom:0.5em solid #000; padding-bottom:1em;}

To make the border go around the content you can change it to:

.custom #page, .custom #header_area .page {border:solid #000; border-width:0.5em 0.5em 0; padding-top:1em;}
.custom #content_area .page {border:solid #000; border-width:0 0.5em;}
.custom #page, .custom #footer_area .page {border:solid #000; border-width:0 0.5em 0.5em; padding-bottom:1em;}

As for http://www.kottke.org/, if what you’re after is a multiple gradient-like border, that is not as simple. You either need to use multiple divs with background images (as he has done) or wrap the page/content in multiple divs giving those divs borders, or borders and padding with a background colour…

If you’re using the page framework you can get three colours by giving #page a border, then #container a background colour and padding and border (which is almost done entirely for you by choosing the shadow option in the Design Options under the Body options — you may need to add the padding and border to the top and bottom though).

Sonia — The thumbnails are automatically created when you have a Post image specified, or a post thumbnail image (these settings are on the post edit page below the content entry box).

Sarah — Depends exactly what you mean by magazine theme, but the first step would be to have teasers on your home page and use the Thesis Post Image and thumbnail features. All of that is available in the options and on the post editing screens.

Sarah — Unfortunately, in that case, the answer to “do you know of an easy way?” is no. However, it can be done, and if you’re willing to venture into a bit of code wrangling it mightn’t be too hard.

For starters you need a custom query to get the posts in categories you need. Then you need a loop to create the new teasers for each category. There’s a forum thread with code for custom teasers.

I have this code that displays one teaser for each category, but haven’t yet got the categories labelled on each teaser… it sort of depends exactly what you’re after and whether there should be more than one post per category and whether you want to show teasers or just titles etc.

function custom_teasers() {
	$teaser_count = 1;
	$offset = 0;
	$do_not_repeat = array();

	$cats = get_categories();
	foreach($cats as $cat) {

		$recent = new WP_Query('cat='.$cat->term_id.'&showposts=1&offset='.$offset);
		if (in_array($recent->post->ID,$do_not_repeat)) {
			unset($recent); $offset++;
			$recent = new WP_Query('cat='.$cat->term_id.'&showposts=1&offset='.$offset);
		}
		while($recent->have_posts()) : $recent->the_post();

		$post_ID = get_the_ID();

			if (($teaser_count % 2) == 1) {
				$top = ($post_count == 1) ? ' top' : '';
				$open_box = "\t\t\t<div class=\"teasers_box$top\">\n\n";
				$close_box = '';
				$right = false;
			}
			else {
				$open_box = '';
				$close_box = "\t\t\t</div>\n\n";
				$right = true;
			}

			if ($open_box != '') {
				echo $open_box;
				thesis_hook_before_teasers_box($post_count);
			}

			thesis_teaser('teaser', false, $right);

			if ($close_box != '') {
				echo $close_box;
				thesis_hook_after_teasers_box($post_count);
			}

			$teaser_count++;
			$offset = 0;
			$do_not_repeat[] = $post_ID;

		endwhile;
		wp_reset_query();
    }
}
add_action('thesis_hook_after_content','custom_teasers');

Robert — You can use this skin with any content layout that Thesis is able to use; you can switch the column sizes and positions in the Thesis design options as much as you like.