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How To Customize a Tumblr Theme?

Asked by anon30 (334points) November 12th, 2009

Okay So Heres My Question, Well. first.
i do know some CSS, and HTML. But I’ve been
searching for a while on how to
figure out the Tumblr Style Sheet, And still, i have no idea.
Mainly, Positioning The Posts, (i want my posts to be in a div, not going way down the page)
Editing The posts (Audio, Pictures, Text, ...)
And Also Positioning the divs for my about me. and adding another one for my links, or whatever i want to put.
So please help me understand this.

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robmandu's avatar

If you want to tweak the code of your current theme, then:

1. logon to your Tumblr Dashboard
2. on the right-side menu, click the Customize link
3. at the top of the page, click the “Theme” tab.
4. at the bottom of the new tab content, select “Enable Custom Content”
5. hack away

anon30's avatar

& i already know about this. the thing is, it doesn’t teach how to use a style sheet for tumblr.

phoenyx's avatar

@BlockStar22
Here’s a good tutorial on CSS positioning.

anon30's avatar

any how i can put my posts in a scroll?

phoenyx's avatar

Give it a fixed height (and/or width) and set it’s overflow to “scroll.”
For example:

#somedive {
width: 600px;
height: 600px;
overflow: scroll;
}

If you want the scroll bar to only show up if the content length is longer than the div:
overflow: auto;

If you want to only scroll vertically, but not horizontally:
overflow-y: scroll;

(iirc, this is borked in IE 6)

anon30's avatar

okay do you know all of the tumblrs .divs? i know #content, then .post .quotes, but whats the rest?

phoenyx's avatar

You can call them whatever you want in your template. Check out the first link that @robmandu posted.

I took an easier route: I found a theme that was close to what I wanted and then I modified it.

anon30's avatar

( http://i38.tinypic.com/sx15so.jpg ) is just a image i made to see if i could do something like it on tumblr. i’ve tried to use a theme and customize it. but it didn’t work out. could you help me with this?

anon30's avatar

“image/layout” the blue would be the deceptions and the white would be the posts

joanaibba's avatar

how to customize a theme

joanaibba's avatar

where i can see themes for tumblr

arieanna's avatar

how to design tumblr themes?

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