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Theme Name: OrangeJuice
Theme Version: 1.0
Theme Author: OrangeJuice
Theme Category: Two Column Themes
Theme Properties: 2 columns, Fixed width, Widget ready, Right sidebar, White, Gray, Verion-2.7

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Download OrangeJuice 0.1

OrangeJuice is a two-columns free theme, specially designed for WordPress 2.7, with a liquid layout and some typographic accents.
I spent a graceful weekend developing it and I really hope you’ll enjoy the results.

The story behind

This theme was born in the kitchen. It was early in the morning and I felt a little dizzy. I definitely needed a glass of fresh orange juice; while having it, my mind suddenly got clear. i took a deep breath and thought I should design a theme describing that moment. This is what I tried to do.

Features

• search engine friendly (optimized title tags, consistent use of headings, TOC);
• valid XHTML (strict);
• no javascript;
• only 2 small CSS images for fast loading;
• custom 404 error page;
• custom archives page template, with a TOC;
• 468×60 banner spot in the header;
• 3 levels deep category menu;
• widgetized right sidebar;
• same style for the default sidebar elements and for the widgets;
• paginated posts;
• threaded comments (css support for 5 levels in depth);
• gravatars;
• styled sticky posts;
• a fluid layout using percents (well, the layout isn’t quite liquid, but rather elastic, for it has a maximal width set at 1280px; otherwise, with displays using high resolutions, the length of lines would make the text unreadable);
• two columns (for clarity) and fresh white spaces;
• a grid-based layout, allowing you to easily style any single post;
• CSS support for individual styles for posts (based on category and tag;
• readability;
• typographic accents (indents, first:line pseudo class, consistent use of fonts);
• structured and commented CSS file;
• hum… CSS3 round corners and some generated content using the :before pseudo-element;

Cautions

This theme is intended to run on WordPress 2.7 (and above) only. This means you CAN’T use it with a prior version.
Before you decide to activate this theme, I strongly recommend you to check your blog’s stats; if it has a considerable amount of visitors using IE6, you should think twice; OrangeJuice looks decent in IE6 (or 7), but not as nice as in Firefox, Safari or Chrome.

Usage

1. download the zip archive containing the theme;
2. extract the theme folder;
3. upload it on the server (in the wp-content/themes directory) via FTP;
4. activate it, in the administrative area of your blog (Appearance > Themes);