I have decided to package the custom theme I use on
Decrypting Rita into something that other people can hopefully use.
This is the first release, and still has a few things hardwired for my comic - if you’re afraid of editing a few bits of text in a PHP file, and poking at some CSS, this theme is not yet for you. Check out the readme.txt in the archive for more details.
The name, of course, comes from the
Bayeux Tapestry, which presents the story of William the Conqueror in the form of one very long horizontal scroll. Scott McCloud cites it as one of the precursors to what we call “comics” in his book
Understanding Comics; it’s arguable whether something lacking the modern innovations of “panels” and “dialogue balloons” qualifies as “comics” but it’s definitely “sequential art”!
Anyway. Good luck; let me know if you get it working on your site. If you can’t then I may try to help you out but no promises - those pages of Rita ain’t gonna draw themselves!
(And if you add in controls for the stuff I didn’t, please toss me a copy of your modifications - I like it when other people do my work for me!)
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there.