Users of IE6 may have problems leaving comments on profiles with custom themes, due to a bug in IE6. If you're using one of my custom themes, you can solve this by deleting the following line in your theme code:

form textarea#comment_content {
width:250px !important;
}

The custom themes available for download here have been corrected, so if you'd rather not mess with the code, you can also do a fresh install instead.

Thanks to everyone who has taken the time to try out the custom themes and report bugs. I'm now aware of three bugs, which do not affect all themes and browsers.

1)Logo display - Both the customized logo (which comes with the theme) and the original cre8buzz logo (which often doesn't match well with the theme) are displayed to users of Internet Explorer before 7.0

2)Unclickable links - On themes which use transparency (all but "blue rounded") most links are unclickable for users of Internet Explorer before 7.0

3)Badly formatted ratings boxes - The formatting of the ratings boxes is messed up for all themes/browsers.

To fix these problems either:

1)Get the updated theme code and replace your old code. All of the text files have been updated with all past and current bugfixes. This is the recommended method.

2)If you don't want to overwrite your own customizations, you can also fix all of these bugs by adding the following lines to the style section at the top of your custom theme:

a, input {
position:relative;
}

custom-personal-profile .rankingpopup input, .rankingpopup input{

float:none;
width:auto;
margin:0;
font-size:12px;
position:relative !important;
}

.ranking_popup {
width:250px !important;
background:#FFFFFF url() !important;
border:1px solid #000000;
position:relative;
filter:none !important;
z-index:999;
}

header a img{

visibility:hidden;
}

header a span{

filter:none !important;
}

It looks like the team at cre8Buzz recently made a change to the header which caused a problem with the way the navigation is displayed. This bug causes the text "Top 8 BuzzRankings..." and the navigation links to appear shifted to the right side of the page.

All themes except "Blue Rounded" are affected.

The code in the gallery has been updated with a fix for this problem. If you've made further customizations to your theme and don't want to lose them, you can easily fix this problem on your own with a simple addition to your theme.

Look for the part of the code that says:

navigation {

height:34px;
margin:0px;
}

and add "clear:both;" before the closing bracket, so that it looks like this:

navigation {

height:34px;
margin:0px;
clear:both;
}

Problem solved.

Note:If you copied the code directly from the gallery (without line breaks) it will look a bit different. The existing code will be:

navigation {height:34px;margin:0px;}

and you'll want to change it to:

navigation {height:34px;margin:0px;clear:both;}

Please note that Cre8Buzz's formatting of the custom profile code (displayed below the previews on the gallery pages) leaves a lot to be desired. Although the code is difficult to read without line breaks, it will work fine when pasted into your theme editor. For those who want to take a closer look at the code for educational purposes, I've provided the URL of a plain text file that contains the formatted source code.

For those who have already made modifications to their profiles, I strongly recommend overwriting those changes with this new code, then add your own changes back in later. These custom themes make significant changes to the structure of the page. Using the only the CSS portion of the code with your existing template may result in undesirable results.

I'm happy to offer assistance to anyone having trouble loading one of these themes, but please make sure you've overwritten all of your old theme code with this new code before asking for help, as the most common problem you're likely to encounter is from not replacing ALL of your old code with the new one.

Once you have the theme installed properly and looking good, then you can add back any modifications you may have made previously.

Two weeks ago I posted a bit of custom theme code that I was using on my own profile. While some people were able to learn from that example, it did require a few changes to work in other profiles, and a bit of HTML and CSS knowledge was also required to get things working properly.

Of course, not everyone knows HTML (or wants to). For those who prefer the simplicity of copy and paste themes (a la MySpace), I've uploaded 5 new custom themes to my photo gallery.

You can view a preview of each theme in the photo gallery, and if you find one you like, just copy and paste it into the text box in your theme editor.

These new themes may not win any design awards - they're just the result of my having a little spare time this afternoon. They do offer profile editing novices a chance to add a bit of personality to their pages without having to learn a bit of HTML.

If anyone is pining for a specific look in terms of colors or graphics, I'm open to suggestions for future themes - just please be patient and understand I may not be able to fulfill every request.

Hope this is helpful.

Kevin