I worked on this new fluid two-column WordPress theme for SofieHofmann.com for at least a month. It would have been finished within two weeks only but I was also at the same time designing three other WordPress themes based on this web design.
The new three fluid two-column WordPress themes were uploaded on February 15, 2011 and have been used since then but I have not written about those sites yet.
The new theme for SofieHofmann.com, now entitled Simple Happiness, was actually a sort of a framework for the other three WordPress themes that I was working on. I also intend to use it as a framework for my future WordPress designs.
This WordPress theme in combination with the Sehdi.com design version three was also the basis of the new Sehdi.com WordPress theme version four. I just uploaded and used the SofieHofmann.com design version three later than the Sehdi.com design version four.
I have tested it with Safari 5.0.3, Firefox 3.5.16, and Opera 9.20 with 800×600, 1024×768, 1280×1024 screen resolutions and even bigger than 1280×1024. It worked fine with the three browsers but I have not tested it with the earlier versions of the three browsers and other browsers like Internet Explorer.
This theme has only one sidebar but the cascading style sheets (CSS) can easily be tweaked to position it on the right side or the left side. With SofieHofmann.com, I decided to position the sidebar on the right side.
The width of the page wrapper of this theme was not fixed but it was also limited to 940px so as not to expand the content if the screen resolution of the browser is bigger than 1440×900.
Both the main column and the sidebar of this theme were fluid not only the page wrapper. I used the percentage instead of the fixed width and then defined the fixed width of the minimum width and the maximum width to make the fluidity of the theme works.
It used the shades of gray color for simplicity. I just changed the colors of the other web designs, the page borders, and the other necessary details by tweaking the cascading style sheets.
This theme is not actually really finished yet as a framework. It is still undergoing a lot of revisions to make it really a very good framework for my future designs. But it is making my web design work easier than before as it is already at least a usable framework.
I decided to upload and use it already for SofieHofmann.com or Simple Happiness as it is already working totally fine.