Reddish is a simple, extendable Mephisto theme – and my former blog design!

Download

You can download the latest tarball (.tar.gz), or visit the project page on GitHub.

Installation

You’ll want to unpack this in /yourblog/themes/site-1/reddish, then enable the theme through Mephisto’s admin interface.

More

Reddish is a re-skinned version of Scribbish, an excellent blogging theme designed by packagethief and ported to Mephisto by DeLynn Berry. The CSS is almost totally redone (only the syntax highlighting remains), but the XHTML/Liquid templates are 80-90% the same. Really, hats off to those guys for making Scribbish so well organized and easy to work with.

Some other details, off the top of my head.

• MIT License
• Valid XHTML 1.0 (Strict)
• hAtom Microformat (check)

Reddish was last updated May 7th, 2007.

I plan to revise Reddish on a regular basis, so comments are always welcome.

Things have been a little slow as far as content goes, but that’s because I’ve been cooking up this new theme for the past week. It’s not 100% done – there’s still some scribbish code hanging around (like the green on black code blocks), and I’m still deciding between a few link styles and effects, but it’s getting close.

I’ve learned that putting a theme together isn’t trivial, so I can understand why there’s dozens of scribbish-themed blogs out there. When it’s all said and done, I’d like to package this up and distribute it with a creative commons license. There’s only a handful of public Mephisto themes available (4-5 by my count), the last of which was released months ago, so hopefully someone will find it useful.

Anyways, if anyone has any comments, I’d love to hear them.