I’ve developed a new theme “Ebony” for personal use. It’s based on Carbon theme.

Here are a few of screenshots:

Ebony Theme Main features:

1. Javascript Effects.

1) Thumbnail Reflection.
It likes Mac Gallery. Using this Js reflection effects you dont need to use imageframe.

2) Built in Lightbox using mootool javascript library.
It’s not famous prototype lightbox. It’s a mootools lightbox, which is smaller and better than prototype’s. The js file plus mootools lib file is about 54KB in total, the prototype lightbox is about 104KB. Also, using this lightbox you can click the thumbnail don’t need to wait the page loading completely.

3) Sliding Sidebar
A new Js file for mootools.

2. Seach engine friendly.

1). Page title changed to like this:
Gallery - Album - SubAlbum - Photo Name

2). Use h2, h3 tag in Photo name and link to photo page.

Theme Demo

http://www.tuwang.org/

Browser Compatible:

Ebony is compatible and fully tested with IE 7, Firefox 2.0+, Opera 9.0+ and Safari 3.0+. It doesn’t work very well with IE6. There is a Js(PNG) problem and a css problem. It’s not very difficult to fix them. But I’ve been recently a bit busy. So currently I have no plan to do this. IE6 sucks.

Gallery Compatible:

It has been only tested with Gallery 2.2.4(I am currently running this version). But It maybe work with other 2.x versions, not tested.

Theme Download

There are three versions you can choose one.

1. English Version:
http://www.tuwang.org/files/Ebony_English.tar.bz2

2. Chinese Simplified:
http://www.tuwang.org/files/Ebony_Simplified_Chinese.tar.bz2

3. Chinese Traditional:
Please download Chinese simplified version above. Then download the icon set here:
http://www.tuwang.org/files/buttons.png
Use this png file to replace ebony/images/buttons.png file.

Installation

* After unbz2 the file, you’ll see there are two folders: themes and modules. The themes folder contains main Ebony theme, just upload it to your gallery theme folder. Modules folder contains some module templates. If you use those modules, you can upload them to your gallery’s corresponding module folder.

* The PSD files of logo and buttons included.

* Change the ad banner on the top.
Just edit /ebony/templates/ads.tpl, change the image file to yours. If you don’t want it, just remove the div content.

Next Release

1. Remove all tables, fully div + CSS structure.
2. Add more Js effects. (e.g., change the background color of photo page, Sliding MicroThumbnail View)
3. Remove unnecessary div tag in .tpl file.
4. Make CSS file more clear.

Bugs, problem, question please post here.

** Please don’t remove the credit message in the theme footer**

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Je55e(Jesse Lee)
http://www.zzvo.com