A quick note to say that a few more tweaks to my Bogart theme has brought it to version 1.0.2, and is downloadable from the Bogart page.

If you use it and like it, go get it…

I’m very pleased to announce that after a few days of nose to the grindstone, my Bogart WordPress theme has been updated in a major way, and is now released as a full-fledged “1.0″ version.

Lots of enhancements went into this release. First, there’s the use of a custom display font for the “H tags” (H1, H2, etc.) using the next big thing, @font-face styling. They face used is “Tiresias Infofont“. It’s a nice, modern display font. For other free fonts that can be used in CSS & HTML pages/themes, visit Font Squirrel. There is a metric ton of cool faces available for use there.

Second, the main navigation now supports drop-down menus for subpages. See it in action by hovering over the Projects link in the navigation menu above, you’ll see a drop-down for all of my themes — that is, unless you’re browsing with IE6, and if you are, shame on you. Get with the times already…

Third, Bogart now properly handles threaded comments, which were introduced in WordPress 2.7.

Last, but not least, depending on the type of page (index, post or page) you can set up the left sidebar column to use different widget configurations. If you want one widget to display on your index page, and some other on a single post, you can have it. If you don’t want post related widgets on your non-post pages, you can have that too. The right sidebar is shared among all page types, so you can put the widgets you want on all pages there.

There are a lot of other little style related things that make the theme overall more pretty, and more modern than its predecessors. If you’re using Bogart already, I know you’ll really like this version.

Head on over to the Bogart page and download yourself a copy. You’ll be glad you did. Or, if you want to see the theme in action, browse the site.

Let me know what you think.

At the request of Ben Vassie, I’ve updated Bogart to version 0.9 to include gravatar support. I also threw in a few other minor aesthetic fixes while I was mucking about in the code.

It’s downloadable from the Bogart page at http://jimmitchell.org/projects/bogart/

Enjoy!

A quick note to let those interested know that I’ve added a new “wide” single column page option to my Bogart WordPress theme, as well as tweaking some of the CSS. The wide page has no sidebar in it at all. Perfect for those single pages that you don’t want sidebar stuff cluttering up. You can download the latest archive (v0.8) from the Bogart page.