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thought I'd try my hands at WordPress tweakery, and so I thought I'd mark up my first custom theme. For whatever reason, I decided that a rendition of the monochrome MacOS from circa System 6 would be cool - with a few liberties taken for the sake of the web, of course.

It's my first real attempt at a theme, so goodness knows if it'll work on anything other than WP 2.1.2 (which is what it was developed under). Still, it's based on some of the structure behind the default Kubrick theme, so it should be relatively complete. Here's a screenshot:

And you can preview it installed here:

http://retromactheme.modernlifeisrubbish.co.uk/

Or, just cut to the chase and download it here. Place it in your wordpress wp-content/themes directory and it should appear in your presentation config.

Good Practice in Implementing HTML Forms >< Six of the best: Recommended Reads

haha, it is good, but it is butt ugly, if you get me.

nice work

I think it has a certain charm :)

Really nice work! This definitely stands out!

That is awesome! It just took me back to grade school when we used to load up Oregon Trail on the old Apple IIe's in the school's only computer lab.

Looks like fun:
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/b/b4/Oregontrail_03.gif

You should give the Sandbox theme a look for using it as a default base. Better than Kubrick for foundations.

http://sndbx.org

Cheers engtech, I'll look into that for my next theme.

I'm clapping for you, Stuart. Well done.

Terribly kickass! Man, i miss my old mac...

Hmmmm.....Might work for Mac fans. But I'm not going to buy it. It's ugly though unique.

It's definitely different, I'll give you that.

I'm sorely tempted to make a website *just* to use this theme.

Very cool! Totally made my day to see this. Yes, that means I lead a sheltered life. :)

You, sir, are awesome.

Oh!, the Mac Plus days!
:-)
Cutest theme I've ever seen!. Awesome!

This. Made. My. Week.

When I was shopping for my first mac, my neighbor (he already had a mac) came with me, and we found ourselves talking about ram. He said: "Go for the 16 Kb. You'll never need it, but it'll make your computer run faster."

Thanks for that Stuart.

I miss my old Mac. It seems like 15 years ago that he and I were best friends.

Oh. Wait. It was.

Ho hum...

Loving the work. I won't be using it, of course, because like Todd says it's butt ugly but it still made me smile on a wet and windy Tuesday night.

A theme I love almost as much as my mac!

Thanks!

How about making this theme for RapidWeaver ???

Would be great !
http://www.realmacsoftware.com/rapidweaver/

Thanks !

Ohh! that would be an ugly theme but it made me smile and think. Just like Satjaya says It's ugly though unique.

yessss!
tempted to use it.

Here are two terrifik quotes my me:

"dude, that's l33tn3$$ squared."

that template is so old skool, it's almost new age."

feel free to use them as much as you like. i have plenty up my sleeve.

This is a nifty little theme.

Algo nuevo por fin.

As soon as you happen to make a 3-column version, compatible with the sociable-plugin I will start using it straight away! ;-)

I'm running it on my blog for the next day just for kicks. It's kinda beautiful in a really simple way. I love the stark contrasts, especially with colour photos. I may well adapt it for future use. Just needs a bit of Chicago action.

Thanks!

This is pretty cool. I wanted to drag around the icons and the windows right away. Can you get some javascript action going on that, so that people could drag stuff around like it's an actual computer screen? That would be a fun addition.