Installing Liquorice Allsorts is, as almost every theme, really easy.
First Step: Download Liquorice Allsorts and unzip it
Second Step: Upload the folder “liquorice” into the “themes” folder of your WordPress directory. The path of the location is: “/wordpress/wp-content/themes”
Third Step: Login into your WordPress Installation and select “Presentation” in the main menu.
“Liquorice Allsorts” will feature under “Avalaible Themes”.
Simply click on it and it will be selected.
You’re done.
The guys from WordPress quite rightfully push hard for keeping the CLASS and ID names allocated in the default “Kubrick” Theme.
Now if you introduce new elements or you want to work with microformats, it all becomes fairly easily entangled and difficult to decipher for one who wants to add her/his own charming design features.
So we went for an approach where we kept all IDs within the markup in order not to mess with any internal references (the introduced shortcut menu makes use of those).
Classes which act as hAtom Microformats are obviously appearing according to their standard.
All other classes and new introduced IDs though carry the suffix “_liq”. That way it should make it much easier to distinguish between classes which also act as a microformat and classes which are merely there to shape things.
We added a CSS for printing in order to limit the amount of paper used for not valid information in regards to the particular medium.
We think that this approach also makes it easier to experiment when ones wants to develop a unique design, since the development (especially for beginners) should be much easier through this approach.
Besides all the wise accessibility features coming with the default WordPress Installation we tried to contribute by adding a shortcut menu to Liquorice Allsorts.
Through the semantic structure of WordPress some key navigation elements cannot conveniently reached by means of tabbing. This is mainly relevant for disabled users who are using assistive technology to access your blogs content, but on top of it, it can be also very useful for a small screen i.e. mobile device for which you might want to add a specific handheld CSS allowing convenient browsing.
You can test this feature if you are running IE or Firefox on a PC (Opera won’t work nor any main stream browser on a Mac) by using the TAB key for navigating and ENTER as a select/activation Key.
Liquorice Allsorts is following a bold, straight design approach. It is made for everybody who is tired of slick everything looks the same kind of web 2.0 style.
Liquorice Allsorts is edgy – and it does want you not to stop expressing your own self by simply choosing it as a theme, but wants to encourage you to have a go. It is much easier than you might think. Make this world a bit more colourful and do your own thing!