Big Sky

Big navigation elements and text with a splash of sky. Uses Modules: BlogRoll, Discussion, and Footer.

Theme provided by editHere.com.

# - Posted: 4/17/05; 7:49:03 PM by Thomas A. Creedon

Spots

Spots is an adaptation of the Blogger template Dots which was created by Douglas Bowman. It uses XHTML 1.0 transitional and CSS — no tables are used in this layout. It also makes use of Manila's Module macro to include individually editable areas for "About This Site", "Discussion Links", "Cool Links" and footer.

Feel free to download and install this theme on your own Manila server.

This Theme is now available on all of UserLand's Manila servers.

# - Posted: 7/9/04; 9:11:48 PM by Jeff Cheney

Tomo

Tomo is an adaptation of the Blogger template Mr. Moto which was created by Jeffrey Zeldman. It uses XHTML 1.0 transitional and CSS — no tables are used in this layout. It also makes use of Manila's Module macro to include individually editable areas for "About This Site", "Discussion Links", "Cool Links" and footer.

Feel free to download and install this theme on your own Manila server.

This Theme is now available on all of UserLand's Manila servers.

# - Posted: 7/9/04; 9:11:16 PM by Jeff Cheney

Rounded

Rounded is an adaptation of the Blogger template Rounders which was created by Douglas Bowman. It uses XHTML 1.0 transitional and CSS — no tables are used in this layout. It also makes use of Manila's Module macro to include individually editable areas for "About This Site", "Discussion Links", "Cool Links" and footer.

Feel free to download and install this theme on your own Manila server.

This Theme is now available on all of UserLand's Manila servers.

# - Posted: 7/9/04; 9:10:39 PM by Jeff Cheney

Minala

Minala is an adaptation of the Blogger template Minima which was created by Douglas Bowman. It uses XHTML 1.0 transitional and CSS — no tables are used in this layout. It also makes use of Manila's Module macro to include individually editable areas for "About This Site", "Discussion Links", "Cool Links" and footer.

Feel free to download and install this theme on your own Manila server.

This Theme is now available on all of UserLand's Manila servers.

# - Posted: 7/9/04; 9:09:54 PM by Jeff Cheney

Manila Theme: Brushed Metal
I am happy to announce the Second non-UserLand produced Manila theme to use modules, Brushed Metal [M].

This is basically the same theme, structurally as Papaver [M] But I'd though I'd make a version for those not so into pretty flowers.

Weblogger Users can begin using this theme, and Papaver [M], right away.

Feel free to download and install this theme on your own Manila server.

As always ports of this theme to other blogging platforms are welcome if attribution to this site is kept, and that you make your derivative theme available to other users of that system. - Thanks

# - Posted: 1/15/04; 12:04:37 PM by Slim

Manila Theme: Papaver [M]

I am happy to announce the first non-UserLand produced Manila theme to use modules, Papaver [M].

Modules were a technology, developed a couple years ago by Brent Simmons then of UserLand, which gave Manila themes the ability to insert editable areas, and stand-in content, throughout the design. The theory being that people wanted to insert content in sidebars and footers without having to dive into the template and create their own "include message" macros. This feature was pioneered with the "New Default" theme, which remains one of the most popular themes despite its ugly appearence mainly due to its ease of use. New modules based themes were never created because Manila lacks of an easy to use interface for creating and exporting them.

However, thanks to Josh Allen who has been using the technology for his school district's manila sites for over a year, and who showed me how to do it at the edBlogger Conference, I now know how to create this type of theme. Proving that if you have Webedit access to a Manila server, you can pretty much do anything you want. ":->"

Modules are compelling because they will allow users to create Manila sites that are easy to use right from the start. Designs can include a sample BlogRoll, editable footers, and easy to manage sidebar content. And, as long as a new theme uses modules with the same names as the one you had before, you can quickly change themes, the new theme will reuse the content of your last modules.

To let people know what modules are being used, I have, and will place in the theme description the names of modules used, and will try to standardize on 4 modules, "BlogRoll", About This Site ,"Sidebar", and "Footer". I have also decided to include [M] in the theme's title to clearly denote themes that use Modules.

Feel free to download and install this theme on your own Manila server.

As always ports of this theme to other blogging platforms are welcome if attribution to this site is kept, and that you make your derivative theme available to other users of that system. - Thanks

# - Posted: 1/14/04; 11:12:44 AM by Slim

Yello Payjes

Black text on a yellow background. Let your mouse to the scrolling!

Theme provided by editHere.com.

# - Posted: 9/26/03; 1:10:18 PM by Thomas A. Creedon

pureSqueezed Orange
A new theme from Robert Canales: "Today I released my very first Manila Theme! Expect many more to come in the future. It's simple, it's styled, it's orange."

# - Posted: 8/18/03; 5:55:37 PM by Lawrence Lee

Discreet Blog(s)
A simple but elegant CSS based theme. Perfect for someone interested in focusing attention onto their content.

They are available in BLUE, PURPLE, GREEN, and BLACK.

They have been designed to pass the W3C's CSS validator. However those of you interested in supporting below 5.0 browsers will need to modify the template so your CSS is called by an "@import" call.

Zeldman has an excellent tutorial on the subject.

I would have done it for you but this method isn't theme-able in Radio, or Manila yet.

# - Posted: 8/2/02; 11:09:21 AM by Slim

Moveable Manila: green
Based on the CSS Rich templates of MoveableType, this theme lets you make relatively simple changes to your css, which in turn can radically change the look and feel of your site. It's a customizers Dream. Have Fun!

# - Posted: 7/23/02; 11:10:39 AM by Slim

Moveable Manila: Modern
Based on the CSS Rich templates of MoveableType, this theme lets you make relatively simple changes to your css, which in turn can radically change the look and feel of your site. It's a customizers Dream. Have Fun!

This theme was created by Bryan Bell

I Have More Themes for your Consumption at Themes.Weblogger

# - Posted: 7/10/02; 9:40:25 AM by Slim

Moveable Manila: blue
Based on the CSS Rich templates of MoveableType, this theme lets you make relatively simple changes to your css, which in turn can radically change the look and feel of your site. It's a customizers Dream. Have Fun!

This theme was created by Bryan Bell

I Have More Themes for your Consumption at Themes.Weblogger

# - Posted: 7/9/02; 4:06:41 PM by Slim

Baby Blue
It's blue baby! This theme makes use of tables.

Theme provided by editHere.com.

# - Posted: 4/19/02; 1:07:51 PM by Thomas A. Creedon

White Space
A plain theme with a white background, text that is easy to read and useful for displaying stories.

# - Posted: 4/11/02; 1:28:09 PM by Lawrence Lee