Brutal Simplicity Theme

Adding links to anything on the sidebar

In addition to linking pages on the sidebar you can link to anything you want using handy HTML link code:

  <ul>
    <li><a href="http://www.example.com">This is the link</a></li>
    <li><a href="http://www.example.com">This is another link</a></li>
    <li><a href="http://www.example.com">A third link. You get the idea!</a></li>
  </ul>

Copy that code exactly, and for each link you just duplicate the line that begins with <li><a href=. You can add as many links as you want. It’s also useful for categories - just change the url to “/tagged/xxxxxx” and whatever you replace “xxxxxx” with will be the tag page it links to. Instant categories!

Using your own background and header images

Grey is boring (on purpose) so Brutal Simplicity allows you to upload your own images to personalize your tumblr. Simply go to Tumblr’s customize screen, click on “Appearance” and you’ll see places to upload images:

Currently it looks best with a medium or light toned background images due to the black text in the sidebar. Future updates will seek to make dark background images work just as well.

Dark Color Scheme

The dark scheme is activated through a checkbox in Customize > Appearance. It’s useful if you simply want a darker blog or if your background image is dark - it makes the text white so it stands out.

I used the dark theme on my blog paired with a sweet wooden background to get a nice cool blue feeling:

Huge Photos Option

Sometimes 500px wide photos is not enough. Through a checkbox in Customize > Appearance Brutal Simplicity enables the high resolution versions of your photos to the tune of 1000px wide!

Future Feature List:

• Arbitrary links on the sidebar (done!)
• Replace the blog header with an image of your choosing (done!)
• Use your own photo as the background (done!)
• A “dark” version of the theme you can toggle done!
• A “huge photos” version of the theme you can toggle done!
• A “medium huge” photos option?
• Jump pagination option
• Static sidebar option
• Permalink navigation
• Suggest features: kevinburg@gmail.com

Sweet M0dz!:

Zero image padding mod - Paste this in to your Custom CSS for a layout where the image fills the width of the post. Not compatible with the “Huge Photos” option.

#content {width: 680px;}
.postcontainer {width: 500px;}
.post {width: 500px;}
.photo {padding: 0;}
.photo .caption {margin: 0 20px;}
.question p {width: 315px;}
.just_notes {margin: 0 20px;}
#post_notes {padding: 10px 20px 10px 20px;}
.audio {padding: 22px 15px 15px 15px;}
.audio div.audio_player_container .player_and_caption {width: 350px;}
.regular_body img {position: relative; left: -30px;}

Mac OS X mod - Paste this in to your Custom CSS to get OS X style title bar buttons.

.date_and_notes {padding: 0;}
.date_and_notes a {padding: 8px; background: transparent
url(http://static.tumblr.com/snnreod/t04l91389/mac.png) 
10px center no-repeat;}