Style cleanups and a second layout option
A number of CSS style issues in Saturday 658 have been corrected in the latest version, 1.0.6 and a new layout option has been added after noticing that some people are having problems with the...
‘Pretty in Pink’ now ‘Pink Bubblegum’
Pretty in Pink has been renamed to Pink Bubblegum and the background design has been changed from the previously packaged. Here is a screen-shot of the revised "Pretty in Pink", now "Pink...
Working on 2 new style schemes
Working on two new style schemes, one based on this tutorial. The layout in all the style schemes is of course based on the default layout, so the style scheme based on the above mentioned tutorial...
Working out some issues with the image cropper
Saturday 658 is almost ready for download but needs a bit more testing. Making this post to test the image cropper so excuse the gibberish. Is gibberish spelled with a G as in gibberish or a J as in...
Introducing Saturday 658
Thank you for your interest in Saturday 658. I am a designer who enjoys creating wordpress themes. I don't believe that just because something is free it should be inferior in quality. I aim to...
Smoking Blue Black
Smoking Blue Black is a dark style scheme for Saturday 658. It features a black background with electric blue smoke. The blue smoke was made using smoke brushes set 1 by Falln-Stock Screen Shot of Smoking Blue Black View Smoking Blue Black | Download Smoking Blue Black...
Play Misty
New style scheme Play Misty. Play Misty is based on this hvdesigns.co.uk tutorial . Thank you for the tutorial hvdesigns.co.uk. Here's a screenshot from Play Misty. View Play Misty | Download Play Misty...
Purple Flair
Purple Flair is another style scheme for Saturday 658. Feel free to download it if you would like to use it. It uses a non-repeating background image. The design is modeled after the tutorial found here View Purple Flair | Download To use this scheme download purpleflair.zip and upload it to the styles folder in your saturday658 theme...
Pink Bubblegum
Pretty in Pink Pink Bubblegum is an extra style scheme for Saturday 658. If you like it please feel free to download it. It's Saturday 658 just with a different background from the default and different font color scheme. View Pink Bubblegum | Download Files This scheme would better suit a blog targeted to a female audience with beauty as...
Making the most of Saturday 658
Saturday 658 is just a theme. It won't perform miracles for your site; but it can help you present a more attractive face without having to spend a dime to look prettier. The key to getting the most out of the theme is to put the most into your site. When you're writing posts, if you have the ability to add images, do add them because this adds to...
Changing the background
Changing the background is easy. Just create a new background image and name it bg1.jpg. Upload it to images and that's it; but of course, make sure it is styled to accomodate the layout. The current background image is repeating along the x-axis. If you create a background image that 's not meant to repeat, you'll need to edit style.css and...
The horizontal categories menu
To avoid situations where you might have more categories than can be displayed in the horizontal menu, only your first five categories will be listed in the horizontal menu. For best results your categories should probably not have very long names. In case your categories do have very long names and the horizontal menu gets messed up, you'll have...
Using Saturday 658
When you first activate Satruday 658, if your blog doesn't have any posts you will see some empty areas in the theme. Your featured category will default to the wordpress default category if there's no featured category set in your theme options. To make the most of Saturday 658 make sure your blog has some content and at least 2 categories...