Bookworm sees new life
Oliver Stör Commented:
"I adapted this theme to work with TypePad. The adaption is not complete yet. I don't use calendars, so these styles where not adapted. I also changed the width of the images, so they work with 800x600 pixels resolution. You can see the results on my brothers book-log."
I sent him some email; hopefully he will send me his code so other TypePad/moveableType Users can benefit from his labors.
"...it occurred to me that not everyone would want to just simply convert the bookworm theme, you might want to put there own stamp on the design like it did here, here, and here"
I'd like to encourage anyone to port my themes to whatever platform they use. I do however ask for clear attribution to remain on the theme, and that you in-turn provide your derivative work to other users of your favored blogging tool.
However, it occurred to me that not everyone would want to just simply convert the bookworm theme, you might want to put there own stamp on the design like it did here, here, and here. To help that along, I'd thought I'd supply "alpha-channeled PNG files, so anyone using the Blookworm theme can simply drop in their own background image. That kind of functionality would have been automatic if Microsoft would would get off their ass and support 32bit PNG nativily, but I digress.
I used two images to create the bookworm theme. to give you an opportunity to add you own background I punched out the blue background I used so you can add your own. You can do so with any mid to high grade image editing software, I'd recommend Photoshop, or Fireworks. Once you have something that you like, export a jpeg, upload that to your site, and then modify the CSS to point to the new images. It's not as hard as it sounds.
Files to download:
Good Luck, and have fun with it
P.S. This is not exclusively for people wanting to convert bookworm to new platforms. I feel that this will be a great benefit to current users of the Manila version of this theme, but who want to spice it up a bit.