Very early on in the process of setting up the new Some Random Dude, I mentioned that all work done on and for this site would be made available as open source and/or free. It is something that I feel very strongly about and am deeply committed to following through on for as long as this blog is active. As a small first gesture, I am offering up the theme used for the Some Random Dude Tumblr site. Feel free to use it, alter it and improve upon it as you see fit. If you do not have a Tumblr account yet, I highly suggest that you get one — it is a genuinely great service.
About the Theme
This theme was designed specifically for this site’s Tumblr offshoot. The interface is intended for media in particular (such as videos and images), but it is still plenty flexible to handle all other types of Tumblr content. The grid will definitely not appreciate large-copy posts, but it will not break. The theme uses jQuery for just about all of the Javascript and should be very easy to follow. My hope is to continue improving upon the theme when it seems both useful to myself and to the community members using the theme. The most recent version of the theme (that is not customized particularly for myself) will always be at franklinstreet.tumblr.com.
Short Video Run-Through
Basic Features
Here are a few reasons you may like using this theme:
- Fully customizable color scheme using Tumblr’s appearance tab
- Various javascript interactive effects to make the experience a bit more enjoyable
- Images in image posts open up in a lightbox
- Uses Cufón font replacement library for better looking headers
- Handles all Tumblr media formats appropriately, including video (tested with YouTube, Vimeo and Flickr embeds)
- Support for notes (new as of 0.9.1)
Use This Theme
If you have a Tumblr account and want to install this theme, just go ahead and preview, then install the theme through Tumblr’s interface. Otherwise, download the source file and manually paste the source into the custom HTML field under the theme tab.
18 Comments
from your sample video, its looks like it crops video posts. Thats too bad. Would be nice if it came up like the light box images. Im in the motion graphics industry. So showing video is just as important as images, if not more so
I love your theme but it doesn’t seem to pay attention to not putting the whole post from an RSS feed… so the videos that come in from youtube are not shapes properly, they are cut in half, the width is right for your column, but the height is just regular youtube video hieght, and that makes it cut in half and not proportional…
So can you make it so that we can just get ‘links and description’ in the RSS feed, or make it so the video is proportional?
thanks!!! great theme!!!
I love the theme, but I was wondering if there was a way to see the tags on each post?
Here’s hoping you’ll see this! Thanks :)