Joshix

I think I have hacked sp into a usable — and more importantly, releasable — condition. Of course, I’m new to Habari so there will certainly be some things I can improve.

Credits

Sp borrows everything it could find to steal:

• Sp takes the Simplish theme for WordPress as a visual style starting point. Simplish is itself a port — of Jeffrey Hardy’s venerable but popular Scribbish “theme for stuff”. Sp does not intend to reproduce Scribbish in every detail. It aims to be lighter, more terse, and simpler in code and presentation than either of its visual ancestors, befitting Habari.
  1. Hardy’s Scribbish is compatibly MIT-licensed. However, no actual Scribbish code is used in sp.
  2. I’m an author of Simplish. (And re-used Simplish code accounts for about 40-60 lines of sp’s CSS).
• From the Habari ‘foundation’ theme, Mzingi, I got the basic outline of Habari templates against RawPHPEngine;
• Fireyy’s (coincidentally-named) Simplus theme provided the initial way forward for dynamic and complete <title> elements, from whose implementation that in sp is derived.
  1. Mzingi and Simplus are both Apache Licensed, like Habari itself.
• The much-lighter-than-Blueprint CSS Boilerplate framework scaffolds the theme’s CSS, and should make it easier to modify.
  1. Boilerplate is by Nathan Borror and available under the terms of a Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 license.
• Draft post style (shown to logged-in users) inspired by Plan 9 rio(1)’s hold mode. ;-)
• Sp is Copyright © 2008 Utopian.net. All rights reserved. Sp is released with NO WARRANTY under the terms of the Apache License, version 2.0. See the NOTICE and LICENSE* files in the distribution for details.

Features

• At the moment, sp is the theme on this site. Take a look. I’ve also rigged a simple sp demo for your pleasure.
• Microformatted: hAtom for entries, pages, archives; hCard for entry author(s).
• Valid HTML 4.01 Strict (as will your posts/pages need to be, should you want your live site to validate).
• Dynamic <title> elements on Tag, Search, Date archive pages. (I guess this is partially “built-in SEO.” More importantly, it improves navigation with clear signposting.)
• Coherent and highly modifiable CSS with Boilerplate framework base.
• Works with: Habari 0.5.2 (sp v0.5) and Habari 0.6-alpha from subversion (sp v0.6).
• More at the hasty labs page for sp, until we put a theme-demo/hosting Habari in place.

You can get the source from (see checksums):

For Habari 0.5.x:

sp-0.5.tgz

For Habari 0.6-alpha (svn):

sp-0.6.tgz