I'm happy to report that Version 1.3 of Gummy Bear will no longer be, um, ugly. You can see it online at sueetie.com. If you don't believe me that it's an improvement, here is a copy of the current Lollipop home page at http://gummybear.sueetie.com next to the new Lollipop Theme home page at http://sueetie.com.
The new home page will include all of the Sueetie List View controls on the right-side, no longer requiring site admins to recreate list views from the demo page. On the left-side is a content part to quickly enter a home page message. Replace the header logo, change a couple of colors and you’re good to go.
Yeah, it's nice that Lollipop finally gets a makeover, but with the new theming model simplifying the process I decided to add two bonus variations on the Lollipop Theme: Lollipop Black and Blocked Lollipop.
Here's Lollipop Black displaying a forum page. Granted, it's not radically different from Lollipop Classic Red, but some folks might not like the red.
Below is the Blocked Lollipop theme displaying a Wiki page, where the content is blocked in the center of the page with wallpaper of your choice on both sides. I should have used a different header and footer color to distinguish it more from Lollipop Black, but it's a starting-point template after all. Real easy to radically change this one with different wallpaper and a couple of color changes.
I posted several screenshots of the new Lollipop Classic Red, Lollipop Black and Blocked Lollipop in the Sueetie Media Gallery Themes Album.
Okay, it’s great that Lollipop is no longer the ugly step-sister in the Sueetie Theme family, but the cool news is that with the new theming model you can switch between the above themes by swapping out 3 CSS files. “Yeah, so what!” you’re thinking. Soooo, we’re talking about changing the theme of five different applications running natively with the change of 3 little CSS files. That’s cool.
In the Gummy Bear v1.3 Lollipop Theme folders shown below, three subfolders will be included under /style: black, blocked and original. These are the CSS files you’ll be able to swap out and get another theme going. And like I said, they’ll update the theme on all pages across your entire site.
