Comments on: Features and design ideas for SWIFT v5.0

By: kelley

kelley — Thu, 04 Feb 2010 01:46:48 +0000

I wish I would have known about this, I would have asked for a previous/next post link at the bottom of all posts! lol

By: clickoverall

clickoverall — Sun, 10 Jan 2010 17:04:12 +0000

I am consider to use Swift 5.0 for my blog. You can use the better free social bookmark icon (http://dryicons.com/free-icons/preview/socialize-icons-set/).
Thanks

By: Satish

Satish — Wed, 06 Jan 2010 19:19:54 +0000

Finally, is there a way to show more than 5 posts on the front page in the magazine mode? I have an empty square I cannot use.

Couldn’t get you, your blog has more then five posts below slider.

The other features you requested will be added shortly. You are never late to offer a suggestion

By: Greg

Greg — Wed, 06 Jan 2010 17:59:58 +0000

Hi Satish,

I am having great luck with your theme on my site (http://bigbeefandbeer.com), and really appreciate your hard work.
If it is not too late, I have a few suggestions for Swift 5.o:

Ability for admins to configure the speed of the slider.
Ability for users to pause the slider.
Ability for admins to determine the length of the excerpts in the slider.

Finally, is there a way to show more than 5 posts on the front page in the magazine mode? I have an empty square I cannot use.
Peace,
Greg

By: blackberries

blackberries — Mon, 04 Jan 2010 02:29:27 +0000

Yes please fix the top page navigation – so many challenges with it, for now I’ll just write new code for it. I checked other installed themes and they work properly. thx

By: blackberries

blackberries — Mon, 04 Jan 2010 02:09:42 +0000

Thank you for the link and suggestion for the header. In Version 5 I would like to see more child levels added to the page navigation – now there is only 2 levels enabled.

By: Elizabeth

Elizabeth — Mon, 21 Dec 2009 17:42:19 +0000

I understand, having made attempts myself to do similar things. I appreciate the work and the fast response!

By: Aly

Aly — Mon, 21 Dec 2009 08:14:52 +0000

I’d like the font in the posts to be larger.
Also I’d like to remove the ‘comments closed’ at the end of static pages and posts.
Thanks
Aly

By: Satish

Satish — Sun, 20 Dec 2009 03:42:54 +0000

Hello Albert,

Thanks for the suggestions.

I used 960.gs framework upto version 4.0, I'm not using any framework in v5.0.

Frameworks reduce designers work considerably, but the problem with them is you will have to put in lot of code which you don't want and they take off flexibility.

All the code in v5.0 will be validated, you will have the author templates you asked for.

Rest of the suggestions are already implemented.

PS: Your comment was stuck in spam, so it wasn't published immediately.

By: Satish

Satish — Sun, 20 Dec 2009 03:36:38 +0000

Hello Elizabeth,
Thanks for the suggestion, There is still lot of back end work left in SWIFT. It wont be released on 20th.
At some point I thought of making SWIFT a fluid width theme, but the problem with fluid layout is we loose control over how our blog looks for different users.
As everyone uses images in blog posts, for a person reading the blog in 800*600 resolution images may flow out of the content area and create a ugly look.
For a person having a very wide screen, the lines will be so long that he/she will have to move his head horizontally to read the content.

I’m going to release a child theme for SWIFT with fluid width for those who want to go with above problems. But that wont be on my high priority list.