by Matt
New Theme: Rounded
Rounded is a new theme that can be found under the presentation part of your dashboard.
It’s a fun flexible width theme that uses all the screen real estate and has playful rounded borders on everything. It has a brown background, and some sort of flowers at the top. The page navigation in the upper right is a pretty neat touch, as are how the comments are done.
Enjoy!
September 22nd, 2006 at 8:57 am
Wowee! Another New theme! Gr8
BTW, why don’t we have some Wide-paged themes?? I feel that most of the current themes leave much blank space towards the sides…..thus making the posting area narrow
September 22nd, 2006 at 8:59 am
This is a wide-paged theme.
I think most themes restrict their width because when text gets too long on a page it becomes much harder to read. This is why books and newspapers try to restrict their words per line to something fairly reasonable. On the web people often try to “use all the space” by filling it up with their body copy, which tends to decrease the readability, especially on larger monitors.
We’re not paying per pixel around here, so there’s no reason to try and squeeze junk into every last inch of the screen. Great designers embrace whitespace.
September 22nd, 2006 at 9:00 am
Yeah! I ‘Applied’ it ‘after’ I put the comments
But I’m kinda put-off by the brown color…black would’ave been nice! And the rounded edges to the posts is really cool. Ohmigosh! Thatz where the name rounded comes from
September 22nd, 2006 at 9:42 am
The rounded edges are cool. But the brown and green colors don’t work too well with me. Maybe give us some color options?
September 22nd, 2006 at 9:44 am
any chance any of the themes from
http://scribez.wordpress.com/2006/09/16/new-ten-best-free-wordpress-templates/
Will make it
especially Typography , Fulid solution , Thin green line, Since your not too keen of having those extra features that the other templates provide
September 22nd, 2006 at 9:44 am
Yay @Matt
*Wishful thinking: I am a great designer who embraces Whitespaces*
September 22nd, 2006 at 9:48 am
We need to have some better cleaner Professional looking Templates with lots of white space.
September 22nd, 2006 at 10:04 am
The theme doesn’t seem to be XHTML compliant ?? Or is it just me?
September 22nd, 2006 at 10:06 am
Thanks.
I’ll be waiting for rounded Andreas10.
September 22nd, 2006 at 10:16 am
great!!!
but no customizable header!
i’ll maintain my pressrow
September 22nd, 2006 at 10:17 am
Nice theme ! Only there seems something wrong at the line wrap. Especialy after the smiley’s…
September 22nd, 2006 at 11:34 am
thank you matt
a new theme is great !!!
September 22nd, 2006 at 11:41 am
And for the first time, localization is there!
September 22nd, 2006 at 11:49 am
Good theme , Thanks
September 22nd, 2006 at 11:49 am
Even though it’s brown, I like this theme. But since you’re speaking of readability, notice how the paragraphs in the body text are practically running together. It needs normal-sized paragraph spacing, like this:
I might use “Rounded” if it weren’t so hard to read the articles.
I’m also a big fan of the white space (or black space, blue space, whatever) thing and am currently using “Simpla.” It would be nice to have more of templates with width, columns, white-space, and the ability to customize the header.
But this is a FREE service and I’m pretty happy overall with what you provide here!
September 22nd, 2006 at 12:01 pm
thanks!
brilliant theme, i’ll be using it for a good long while.
minor issue:
force-aligned images are kind of a pain
September 22nd, 2006 at 12:03 pm
Looks like a F-U-N theme (I’m using this on my other blog) tho I would still pick on Blix Theme because it looks more professional. Thanks & have a great weekend.
September 22nd, 2006 at 12:06 pm
“Great designers embrace whitespace.” - Matt
Negative space FTW! Awesome theme, I shall try it out at once!
September 22nd, 2006 at 12:35 pm
definitely a cool theme, would be nice if it would offer the possibility to customize the colors but anyways it’s cool as is.
greetings!
September 22nd, 2006 at 12:36 pm
I don’t like it very much.. the colors.. I don’t know. Nice to see that you’re adding new themes anyway!
September 22nd, 2006 at 12:55 pm
Cute theme, but I’ll stick to Pressrow.
September 22nd, 2006 at 1:04 pm
@ MATT: I love this theme! Its resemblance to the “bus full of hippies” theme of John Oxton is notable, but it still looks great. And fluid width is a good thing too. Great going, Matt! I hope people appreciate the quality of this theme over some others that have made their way on to WP. But yes, design is a relative thing.
September 22nd, 2006 at 1:44 pm
I’m pretty sure you can fix the photos with some lines out of pressbox. I had to do it there too and I think this is what I used; I don’t have my computer with me.
I’d mess around with the padding #s and scratch out the background and border.
.entry img.left { padding: 6px; margin: 0 10px 5px 0; background: #f5f5f5; border: 1px solid #bbb; float: left; }
.entry img.left_off { margin: 0 10px 5px 0; float: left; }
.entry img.right { padding: 6px; margin: 0 0 5px 10px; background: #f5f5f5; border: 1px solid #bbb; float: right; }
.entry img.right_off { margin: 0 0 5px 10px; float: right; }
.entry img.center { display: block; padding: 6px; margin: 0 auto 15px auto; background: #f5f5f5; border: 1px solid #bbb; }
.entry img.center_off { display: block; margin: 0 auto 15px auto; }
I’m a CSS newbie - see how I run.
September 22nd, 2006 at 1:51 pm
[...] So then Matt posted about this New Theme: Rounded and I, like a true blue nincompoop, commented about how WP themes are always narrow and leave too much whitespace at the sides! That too, without applying/using the theme! And when Matt did say that it was a wide-page theme, I used it here and had a sheepish li’l grin [...]
September 22nd, 2006 at 1:53 pm
A cool and fresh theme ;-).
September 22nd, 2006 at 2:29 pm
Its a cute theme. I really like it. Whimsical. I love the colors. I would like more like these. Great Job!
September 22nd, 2006 at 2:30 pm
Err… is it just me or does everyone see that the smileys in the posts as well as the Text around Images is pretty skewed up!
Smileys appear to the left of the post immaterial of where they have been placed
and text below images shows up at the side of the images
September 22nd, 2006 at 3:04 pm
Awesome Theme! Love it! A couple of comments on the presentation;
- Could a “Home” button be added to the “Pages” summary? Some users dont know you can click on the blog title to go home
- Is there anyway to remove the flowery things at the top? They cover up part of the blog title and caption.
- Any color options coming? I LOVE the layout, but am still getting used to the colors.
September 22nd, 2006 at 3:22 pm
More work for the WordPress Theme Reviews. You guys are keeping me busy (in a good way).
Thanks for the stealth update to compose mode as well!
September 22nd, 2006 at 3:30 pm
Thanks for the new full page theme. It’s very attractive. WOW! two themes on top of all the back-end work this week - you guys must be exhausted. I’m wishing you all an exceptionally fine weekend.
September 22nd, 2006 at 3:45 pm
Hello Matt,
This is a really beautiful theme. There is something magical about its clean approach that can’t be articulated in words.
Great job folks! In Marathi I would say, फारच सुंदर सजावट आहे!
Thanks again,
Please pass it on to the WordPress team.
September 22nd, 2006 at 4:43 pm
I tried today but I had to change it back because of the alignment, which is very very close to the edge of the border (I usually use table when i post, maybe it is reason), otherwise it would be really nice theme
Thank you very much for sharing new thing with us
cheeeeers
September 22nd, 2006 at 5:03 pm
Hey the funky image float thing should be fixed now. Sorry that slipped by.
September 22nd, 2006 at 5:20 pm
Hey Matt!
Great new text editor today! When did that change? I LOOOOOVEEEE it! (makes my html editing SO much easier!)
Thanks!
September 22nd, 2006 at 6:00 pm
I actually really like this theme. I would choose this if the colours were customizable (hint hint). There should be more variable width themes like Rounded. As well as darker theme, as well.
September 22nd, 2006 at 6:09 pm
Turn off the CSS-based capitalization in this theme, please!
This is only suitable for English blogs…
September 22nd, 2006 at 6:21 pm
Anyone who wants to take a quick look at Rounded can click here.
It will probably only be on Rounded up until tomorrow though, at which point I’ll be using it for the WP theme review.
September 22nd, 2006 at 7:25 pm
very nice..
September 22nd, 2006 at 7:59 pm
Good work guys. I’m pretty happy with the modifications I’ve made to a previous theme, though. I do have a request- can you make it so we can have a look at a larger picture of each theme before we apply it? And as usual, colour options make all the difference…
September 22nd, 2006 at 8:08 pm
it’s a great theme. love that you’ve “embraced the whitespace.” i found two problems with it though:
(1) there seems to be a problem with the RSS feed in the footer of the page. when i drag and drop into the feeder it says ‘invalid url’. methinks this has to do with the fact that the url says “feed:http://yourblogname.wordpress.com/feed/” rather than just “http://yourblogname.wordpress.com/feed/”
(2) no search bar!!
this may be repeated by someone else. if so, apologies in advance.
gg
September 22nd, 2006 at 8:46 pm
ooooh! very nice. i love this! thanks so much!
September 22nd, 2006 at 10:39 pm
Can I not use justified text?
September 23rd, 2006 at 1:11 am
I’m still just hoping for a good layout for my artblog… like Andreas05 (but slightly wider) or Musically Yours.
September 23rd, 2006 at 2:23 am
beauty
September 23rd, 2006 at 2:47 am
Not too simple, not too flash
Nice!
September 23rd, 2006 at 4:03 am
” Wow keren “.. ( in English will say Wow cool
).
btw i still hope about custom header image that could be implement on my andreas09 themes hihihi
CAYO !
September 23rd, 2006 at 4:19 am
It’s an attractive theme in a quirky fun kind of way.
It would be good if the colours can be customized. And what’s with the flowers? Anything flowery I tend to think is girly.
I’m not too sure about brown and green colours, but it’s certainly a different looking theme. Press Row is still the best theme released so far though - in my opinion - so I’m sticking with it.
September 23rd, 2006 at 4:55 am
Thanks WP for the new theme! Though I’ll be sticking to “Neat.” “Rounded” really only does wonders for those with CSS access. The colors of brown and green are nature-like, but a little too “muddy” for me.
September 23rd, 2006 at 6:03 am
Hello Matt,
Thank you for adding another theme
Though I would love it if I could pick my own colors 
I’m not a big fan of brown…but nonetheless, thank you for the help!!
September 23rd, 2006 at 3:20 pm
I love the color combination. I’m using this theme right now. I love getting new theme options!
September 23rd, 2006 at 4:20 pm
The layout on this theme is tremendous! I like it very much. With a custom header and the ability to change the background color scheme just a bit, it would be perfect!
September 23rd, 2006 at 5:00 pm
Thank you for taking note of my request
I know brown’s not everyone’s cup of tea (even though most people’s cups of tea are brown) but those of us who love it really love it.
September 23rd, 2006 at 6:19 pm
I hate complaining, but…. I can’t justify the text in my entries. Not only does it screw the alignment of the entry, but for some reason makes the first paragraph of all starting letters of a sentence in lowercase. Can this be fixed?
September 24th, 2006 at 4:56 am
The admin bar has been lowercased as well. Can this be fixed?
September 24th, 2006 at 12:30 pm
i had a go with this theme.. love the Unconventional color-scheme
my sidebar went wonkey– pages/lists were all smushed together..
perhaps im too wordy. otherwise.. cool beans.
September 25th, 2006 at 3:09 am
best new theme added, thanks!
September 25th, 2006 at 5:13 am
wahhhhh!!! i love it!!! using it now!
September 25th, 2006 at 2:07 pm
Some of the dates on my posts aren’t displaying properly with this theme. I guess it’s a small glitch. Check my frontpage here:
aliveagain.wordpress.com
However, I LOVE THIS THEME!!
October 21st, 2006 at 3:02 pm
[...] All great comments that follow his post (see http://wordpress.com/blog/2006/09/22/new-theme-rounded/gave me the will to work more to deliver new themes, you probably noticed I haven’t done anything since few months but it won’t stay like that, promissed. [...]