Great, let me know if you have any questions.

I’m sorry, but I’m unable to do the conversion for you since I haven’t had experience with ExpressionEngine before. You would need to outsource a developer who knows ExpressionEngine to do this for you.

Then since this theme comes with a pure HTML version, I’d assume it could be used as the basis for an ExpressionEngine theme.

Thanks!

So, you’d like to be able to insert a link in the post content and then have that link, when clicked, display a youtube video in an overlay lightbox? Look at this link and click the “test youtube link” and tell me if this is what you want: http://demos.brianmcculloh.com/continuum/2011/04/renault-answers-demand-with-laguna-monaco-gp-edition/

If so, that functionality is natively supported in Continuum, but you need to add one line to your javascript file which I can easily instruct you on how to do.

P.S., that will work on an image as well, it doesn’t have to be just text.

Let me know,

Thanks, Brian

Thanks for the kind words! Glad it’s what you were looking for

can i request you for an additional page? i need a user showing page (like on facebook or myspace…) and it would be cool if you did it. how much does it will cost?

I would need to know more details about how exactly you want the page to display. Then, I could give you a cost estimate and put you on my schedule whenever a spot opens up. You can send further details to brianmcculloh@gmail.com

I don’t know, I’ve never used ExpressionEngine before. It’s just HTML , so if ExpressionEngine templates can be based on regular HTML , then I don’t see why not.

Hey, that is great to hear! Thanks for the support.

Thanks for that!

Wow I really appreciate the kind words! (and no, I don’t have a deviantart account… yet…)

Thanks!

Yeah, that would make sense. I’ll do that for my future HTML themes. It seems like a lot of duplicate code (especially since Continuum has so much code), but I guess it’s much more user friendly. Thanks for the advice.

I use the html tempaltes to build up skins for our cms and portal system ( which more people do here ). So a browsable copy may look like double work but makes your buyers job a lot easier we can just start where we want and then go from there without having to first look up all style options

Makes sense.

I guess maybe I put too much trust in the reviewers. I just assumed that if they approve it, then it’s acceptable. Believe me, I in no way meant to deceive anyone. The new update should be available shortly, so we can put this whole matter behind us.

I had no idea that would have been a problem. I’m not trying to slip anything by anyone or deceive anyone, why would I hurt my reputation and rating by doing that? Also, why did the item get approved if it has such a blaring fundamental error. I got superb marks by my reviewer stating that I went above and beyond what most themes do. I think you need to pipe and have a beer. Maybe try doing something productive instead of trying to find faults in others’ good-spirited efforts for a change.

It’s always nice to have spent the most time and effort responding to comments from someone who’s not even a customer. There’s always one guy who’s never satisfied. Thanks for being that guy.

I’ve finished the update and have submitted it for review. It should be available very shortly.

I’ll just update the theme instead to include an additional HTML version so everyone is happy. It will literally take me 5 minutes to change the entire site. I really think you’re freaking out about the simplest thing. I’m not sure if you are aware or not, but PHP and HTML are not mutually exclusive programming languages.

The theme is written entirely in HTML with .php file extensions and a couple PHP includes. It is very easily converted to HTML using the steps I laid out in my response to nokiko below. I will be adding this to the FAQ shortly.

FYI – as stated, this is exactly how I have release my first two HTML themes without any problems with either the ThemeForest staff or customers. You are the first person to have a problem with it. You know, there is a reason ThemeForest lists the files used in the theme on the item description page.

Thanks a lot! Yeah, there is a weird bug with the fancy tooltips used and some versions of Firefox – it causes a full-screen split-second flicker for some reason. The fix would be to disable the fancy tooltips by opening the js/custom.js file and commenting out line #45 (add // to the beginning of the line).

Thanks for the quick reply!

For what it’s worth – I’m not sure what all the fuss was about the php files inclusion… Bit of a storm in a teacup! Nice to see an alternative version with the thml being fasttracked though!

Maybe post back when the download package is ready…

Cheers -

Yeah, I thought it would make everyone happy

It’s now available for download.

The site is not wrongly packaged. It is a theme written in HTML not requiring any platform such as Wordpress or Joomla, with PHP file extensions so that it can be more robust and not have the same code (e.g. menus, sidebars, template parts) written redundantly lots of times. This is done by design, and consequently in the item description where it says Theme Forest files used, you’ll notice it says PHP files instead of HTML files.

That being said, if you don’t want to use PHP file extensions, you can easily replace them with HTML file extensions. As per the documentation that came with Continuum, the only PHP that is used in the entire site is setting the variables at the top of a few of the files, and the areas where one file is included in another file (PHP includes). So, here is how you would go about changing the theme from PHP to HTML :

1) Change the file extensions of all the files from .php to .html

2) Replace the php include code with the contents of the file it is including. For example, on the index.php file, currently it looks like this:

include("inc/header.php"); //get the header

include("inc/spotlight.php"); //get the spotlight area

include("inc/latest.php"); //get the latest panel

include("inc/feed-layout-a.php"); //get the feed listing

include("inc/footer.php"); //get the footer

What that does is just “include” 5 other files all of which are in the inc/ folder: header.php, spotlight.php, latest.php, feed-layout-a.php, and footer.php. What you need to do is open the header.php file and copy all of the code and paste it into the index.php file, replacing the php include for the header.php. Do the same thing for the other 4 included files.

3) Lastly, you need to replace the few spots where PHP is used inside of a file with HTML instead. Again, this is very simple. For example, in the header.php file, delete all of the php (everything between and including the <?php and the ?> tags. Then, since you’re not using a PHP variable to hold the background and color choices, change the body tag like so:

<body class="?php echo $con_background.' '.$con_color; ?">
</body>

change this to

<body class="light-lithium lithium">
</body>

(don’t worry about the closing body tag – this comment section throws that in for some reason. you’re just looking a the opening body tag)

That’s it. Do the same thing anywhere you find PHP , which is usually just right at the beginning of a file. If you come across any areas where you’re confused on how to get rid of the PHP , please ask and I can help you very easily. Again, since I’m not using a bunch of complicated PHP functions, and I’m not integrating PHP all throughout the code and only in a few specific places, changing the theme from a .php theme to a .html theme is something that can be accomplished in a matter of minutes.

You may be asking why did I choose .php to .html if it’s so simple to change the entire site to .html. The answer is, I’d rather give the buyer the opportunity to take advantage of the efficiency and robustness that .php provides, and then have the option to easily scale it back, instead of not giving the buyer that option in the first place.

Where to go from here:

First of all, I have updated the item description to be even more clear about the use of .php extensions as opposed to .html extensions to avoid any further confusion. Secondly, I’m going to update the theme files so inside the folder you will have a php folder and an html folder, and inside of each one is the PHP or HTML version of the theme. I think that will be best for everyone in the long one. Don’t know when I’ll be able to perform this update, but it should be within a week or two.

Please let me know if anything’s still unclear or if I can answer any further questions.

Thanks, Brian

OK, I’ve made it a priority to update the theme with a pure HTML option. I have updated the theme and it’s awaiting review. It should be available shortly, so don’t worry about applying any of the changes I mentioned above. I’ll let you know when it’s been updated

Great! Let me know if I can answer any questions about the theme. Thanks for responding to the others – you are correct. Everything’s written in pure HTML with a php extension, so you can just change the file extensions to HTML and replace the PHP includes with HTML includes (or just copy the HTML from the included files into the file that includes them).

FYI – see my response to nokiko above for further details…

No, the author did not screw up. If you look at the item description at the Theme Forest files included, you’ll notice that it says it uses PHP files and not HTML files. This is the way I’ve always released HTML templates (since the entire theme is written in pure HTML ) and after 150+ purchases I’ve not had one person with a problem with the php extensions.

see my response to your comment above…