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AboutHalcyon is a theme for the Posterous blogging/social media platform and is based on the Austero theme by Cory Watilo.The initial goal of Halcyon was to balance out Austero’s sidebar-heavy nature and to provide more room for content making it more like an actual blog theme that you might find for Wordpress or Blogger as opposed to the narrow-natured offerings that dominate the theme landscape of Posterous and its competitor, Tumblr. I realize that Posterous and Tumblr are often seen as a middle-ground between the short and fast pace of Twitter and a standard blog but I feel that Posterous has the power and features to be taken seriously as a full-fledged blogging platform and I made Halcyon to give it the room it needs to stretch and reach its maximum potential. Perhaps Halcyon's nicest feature is the inclusion of customizable CSS navigation tabs on each page. Not only does this give you the ability to link to pages on your Posterous, you can use them to link to your other sites or any site for that matter! Customizing the navigation tabs is quick and easy as well, just copy/paste in your link and you're good to go. Taking things one step further and borrowing from and expanding on an idea gleaned from a Wordpress plugin, I have also included buttons for numerous social media sites. Like myself, your Posterous is probably just one of the several social media and web communities you utilize. I wanted to make it easy for your visitors to be able to link to your other profiles, whether it is your Facebook or your Flicker portfolio. Customizing the button links is easy, as is removing the buttons for the sites you don't wish to link to. The buttons (and all Halcyon-related images) are optimized PNG files and are hosted on a fast, reliable private server as to not have to worry about the sometimes sluggish and unreliable performance of free image hosting services. Future plans for the theme include plug'n'go alternate navigation tab styles as well as different theme colors.I would love to hear any feedback or suggestions for Halcyon. Please feel free to e-mail me any time or send me a message on Twitter.
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