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This week's Update - Themes, Fixes, and the New TypePad

Themes from Japan!

Updated: We've heard loud and clear in the comments that these themes should be wider, so we're updaing them in just a couple of weeks.

You've been asking for new themes for your blog, and we heard you loud and clear. Our Japan team, also known around the office as SAKK, has some really sleek, fun, and kawaii themes with an international flair and we thought you'd like to see these on your blogs. Check 'em out!

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I'm really excited about the diversity of the design options available. Since a picture's worth a thousand words, I thought I'd put up some of my favorites.

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Try these new themes: just click to your "design" tab - click "themes" and "new".

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Comments

fumiakiy

Hello from SAKK! Let us hear how you think about the new themes!

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I want to use one of them but all of them have narrow widths. Why is it so narrow? That there is a whole wide of space on the side?

Doreen

thanks!!!!! need wider widths though

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I think there are some very lovely Japan themes. I have several favourite designs and I'm looking at one that I think I can tweak to work for me.

I need to go a bit darker on the print on "Blooming" to have enough contrast to make it easier to read. I'm pretty sure I can do it. It's up though, it's pretty and not a jarring change from what I had (Subtle Pink).


I dig the themes :) and want to use them.

Trent Fitzgerald

I'm in agreement with I Love-Hate America by Bing,

The themes are great but the widths are TOO NARROW! Expand the designs please, I have a three column blog and these themes don't fit.

Thanks!

MELANCHOLIA

Same remark here. Great themes but too narrow. Hope you can fix this.

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I like what I see...very much! Wyncia

Ginevra

hi everyone - I'm checking in with some folks around here to see how we could make these themes a bit wider.

Catherine

The pretty one with the flowers and the red butterfly cuts words in half at the end of the line instead of starting a new line with the entire word. Make sense? I like that one best but I can't use it... :(

Geu

Hi Catherine, we're so glad you're enjoying the new themes. Are you referring to the theme "Spring Walking"? If so, do you mind opening a ticket with Support and sending us a screenshot of what you are seeing? That way we can investigate it (I can't reproduce the error on my own blog).

Catherine

Well now that I'm on my home Dell PC instead of my work HP it's not broken! I'm going to assume it was my stupid work computer and not a typepad coding error. :) Thanks for the new themes, they are gorgeous!

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the themes are nice! but it would be a lot nicer if the themes are wide.. ^^.. can you please make some wide themes and layouts? ^^

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yeah! the themes would be a lot nicer if the themes are wide and also the layouts ^^

Christine Schwartz

Thankyou for these new themes. I have switched to "Simple Gray 1." It has the font, Verdana, as well as the font size, 12 point, that I've been wanting for quite awhile. I love its simple, clean look.

In order to accommodate the narrow style, I've switched from a 3-column to 2-column layout. Now it's fine and it's forced me to clean some junk off my blog. Thanks, SAKK!

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There are not many funky themes in these, could you please add some funky themes in the next update.

fumiakiy

Thank you!

fumiakiy

I'm glad you enjoy the new theme! As Ginevra commented we'll be working on what we could do to make those themes wider.

Thank you!

Ginevra

I'd love to add some funk-tastic-ness. Do you have some examples of funky themes you'd be able to share?

Geu

Hi Catherine, I finally figured out that you're probably referring to the theme Brighten. Our designers tell me that we added this "word break" to prevent the blog from looking ugly when posts have very long URLs, for example.

If you have access to custom CSS, simply add the following line to it:

.entry-body p, .archive-content p {word-break: normal;}

KingsCrossBlogs

These new themes are seriously flawed. It seems you guys never tested them. I like the general look of several of them but they tend to be unusable for various reasons

1 - the width issue already mentioned. It is not just the total width that is a problem - sidebars tend to be too narrow for multi word headings and I noticed that instead of breaking to the next line at the end of a word as is normal they are prone to breaking in the middle of a word making the word unreadable.

2 - Navigation bars are problematic. In the case of the Bees and Bear template the navigation bar is invisible because the designer made the links color dark brown and the template background is dark brown. This is where I realized that you guys did not test these templates. On the Career Girls template the top post seems to cover the navigation bar (at least it does in preview mode) Love the design but hate that it does not work with a navigation bar and so is useless.

You need to remove these templates until you fix the issues otherwise lots of people will start talking about the poor quality of TP templates, because they will - those templates look amateurish with those basic problems with sidebars and navigation bars.

KingsCrossBlogs

BTW I should stress that I love the look of the designs - it is the practical functionality that is a problem.

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the themes are really nice. Can you please make a wider version of it? ^^

fumiakiy

Yes, we are working on making it wider. It probably will take a few releases before we could ship them, so please stay tuned. Thanks!

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