Martian Intuition

This project has been consuming me; it's my entry for the typo theme garden.

The dictionary says concomitant is:

A phenomenon that naturally accompanies or follows something.

In this context, concomitant is the name of a minimalist theme for typo that flows with your content.

Theme Features

concomitant is composed of standards-compliant CSS/XHTML. The layout is table-less, created by absolute positioning of three main blocks: header, content & sidebar.

Fluid design scales to fit in the browser viewport & to fit contents' inherent size. Scalable text is supported for end-users using the built-in text-zoom feature of most browsers.

Alternate stylesheets provide four theme variations:

1. high visibility (black & white)
2. orange (default)
3. blue
4. green

An XHTML/JavaScript stylesheet switcher widget allows most users to select a style of their preference. (Some browsers [Firefox] already have a built-in selector.) Each user's style choice will stick using client-side cookies.

Choose which stylesheet is your blog's default by simply editing the view file layouts/default.rhtml (instructions therein).

Browser Compatibility

Tested on-screen in:

• Apple Safari 2.0.1
• Mozilla Firefox 1.0.7
• Opera 8.5
• Windows XP Internet Explorer 6
• Windows 98 Internet Explorer 5.5

Simple print.css (based on azure) is also provided, but it has been minimally tested.

Requires

typo version 4.0.2 or newer.

Download

concomitant typo Theme ~290KB source archive (v1.3.1, 2006-08-13).

Install

Just decompress the archive, drop it in your typo/themes directory, and select concomitant in your typo Theme admin panel.

History

• 2006-08-13 v1.3.1 now typo 4 compatible
• 2005-11-19 v1.3 removed link to the missing 'user-styles.css', which caused slow pages loads & sometimes partial loading of styles
• 2005-11-18 v1.2 now requires typo 2.6.0 (fixed theme/views compatibility); also tweaked the Green alternate style to be more green!
• 2005-10-29 v1.1 fixed rendering of live search in typo stable 2.5.6 (this unfortunately broke Live Search in typo svn)
• 2005-10-25 improved ordered/unordered list display (re-release as v1)
• 2005-10-24 v1 initial release

Thanks

• A List Apart alternate stylesheets
• Inkscape vector graphics
• Context Free fractal graphics

Developed/coded by hand on my Apple PowerBook G4 12" Mac OS X in TextMate.app. Photography & artwork are my own.