The Hickensian

18.04.05 Tiger style for NetNewsWire

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Tagged with: osx, rss, themes, tiger

Just what the world doesn’t need right now – yet another spotlight style for NetNewsWire! There are many fine ones already available on the interweb, but none of them were quite how I wanted them to be, so here’s mine.

Here’s an overall shot (I just wanted to show you how nice NNW looks with a minimal-no-toolbar approach). Click for a full-size image:

I couldn’t think what else to call it, so for the moment its an egotistical self-named style. Any suggestions?

If you’d like to give it a spin, download the style here: hicksdesign.nnwstyle.zip, and double click the file to install it (thanks to Jason in the comments for pointing out this easy install route). Please Note, you must have the beta of NNW 2 of NNW 2 Lite for this to work. User stylesheets are not supported in earlier versions.

Update. Brent Simmons has asked me to produce a version without the fixed header and footer. Apparently, there is a bug in WebKit where scrolling goes too far when you have fixed elements. So here’s a fluid version with no fixed elements:

hicksdesign-fluid.nnwstyle.zip

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No.1

∞ Dennis de Grauw said 1757 days ago:

You have way too many spare time if you can keep up with all those blogs ;)

Anyway, nice one!

No.2

∞ Marten Veldthuis said 1757 days ago:

Nice. Very nice.

Q: Why is 43 Folders under design blogs?

No.3

∞ Jon Hicks said 1757 days ago:

Thats just the problem Dennis – I’d don’t have enough time!

No.4

∞ Derek said 1757 days ago:

Sweet. Newsfire was my main choice as an RSS reader. Your little side project with NNW makes me think twice about NF.

No.5

∞ Jon Hicks said 1757 days ago:

Marten – I know, but it doesn’t fit into any other categories

*thinks – maybe I should’ve blurred out the feeds….

No.6

∞ Jason said 1757 days ago:

You can also just doubleclick the .nnwstyle file after unzipping… Much easier than navigating to ~/Library/etcetera…

No.7

∞ Phillip Grey said 1757 days ago:

Seems that NNW styles also work in PulpFiction, too. Nice:
http://nslog.com/archives/2005/04/19/styles_for_pulpfiction.php

No.8

∞ Nell said 1757 days ago:

I love it, thanks Jon!

On most NNW styles, you must click on the post title to read it. In yours, the whole header works as a link. It’s much more comfortable that way. The mousover looks nice, too.

Just a minor complaint: long post titles don’t wrap, they just go on until the window ends.

No.9

∞ Hans said 1757 days ago:

17 feeds and you’re only down to Adactio?!
I thought I had a lot with 32 feeds… and that’s including the TXP/TXD forums!

You never cease to amaze me.

No.10

∞ Kevin Tamura said 1757 days ago:

Widescreen, definitely widescreen.

No.11

∞ Alex Cabrera said 1757 days ago:

I’ve been using the 3 panel interface without the toolbar for a while now. For such a great program (with a really nice application icon) the default toolbar icons look awful.

No.12

∞ Yannick L. said 1757 days ago:

Looks nice, pity I don’t have a Mac :(

No.13

∞ Josh said 1757 days ago:

I thought you were big into NewsFire… so why the style for NNW?

No.14

∞ Jason said 1756 days ago:

very cool – gotta check this out.

No.15

∞ Colin said 1756 days ago:

Any suggestions on why I’m not getting the blue image “headerstrip.png” to show up behind the post title? I followed the install directions.

No.16

∞ Jon Hicks said 1756 days ago:

Hans – I have 241 feeds in all! And no, I don’t get the chance to read them all, all of the time. However, I can’t unsubscribe for fear of missing out on something.

Josh – I am, but it runs so slow. NNW is really snappy, despite its features.

Colin – thats odd. Its seems to be working OK for everyone else?

No.17

∞ Colin said 1756 days ago:

Jon, I upgraded and it seemed to fix my problem.

No.18

∞ Timmargh said 1756 days ago:

Nice.

No.19

∞ Nell said 1756 days ago:

Weird. The original style works perfectly for me, but I can’t see any images or styling with the new one.

No.20

∞ Josh said 1756 days ago:

Jon,

I didn’t know that NewsFire had an issue with responsiveness. Good to know. Thanks for the great NNW theme. This one replaced my other “Tiger” themes. ;)

No.21

∞ riff said 1756 days ago:

I’d love it if anyone could recommend something like NNW for windows.. that thing is nifty.

No.22

∞ clint said 1756 days ago:

ah sweet…u continue to rock and/or roll jon… :D

No.23

∞ Dave said 1756 days ago:

Nice work Jon – another one for the downloads section :) shame I don’t have a mac to try it on…yet.

No.24

∞ Keegan Jones said 1756 days ago:

Suhweet! Being the only Neubix soldier using NetNewsWire (every one else uses NewsFire), moments like these make me proud to be a NNW user.

No.25

∞ Richard Earney said 1756 days ago:

Nice one – now all we need is a “What’s in my NetNewsWire Subscribed list” competition!

No.26

∞ Massimo said 1756 days ago:

Nice one! Thanks for sharing! (^_)

No.27

∞ Geoff said 1756 days ago:

Not sure why, I’m no expert at this stuff what-so-ever, but I’m having the same issue as one or two others—the original style works while the fluid one doesn’t.

No.28

∞ Kyle said 1756 days ago:

Nice work. This one feels more “Tigerey” than the other Tiger-like themes I’ve used. Now if only someone would develop a skin for the rest of NNW, it might finally “feel” as good as NewsFire (which is more playful, but less…workable?).

No.29

∞ Jon Hicks said 1756 days ago:

My apologies – I’ve made silly arse mistakes with the files I’ve uploaded. Please re-download and everything should be fine

No.30

∞ Sanim said 1756 days ago:

Cool. NetNewsWire is a great RSS newsreader.

No.31

∞ James Huston said 1756 days ago:

It’s not so much a bug in Safari as more of a working as it should.

Fixed elements are outside of the normal page flow and can overlap anything on the page. When you scroll the page fixed items at the bottom will tend to cover up the bottom text unless ample padding or margin is added to the text. The padding offers a buffer to avoid being under a fixed eleemnts at the bottom.

No.32

∞ Allen said 1755 days ago:

Nice. We’re right at the top of the list! You’ve made my day :D

No.33

∞ Jon Hicks said 1755 days ago:

Allen? What are you doing here? Get back to work on Symphony this instant! ;o)

No.34

∞ scott said 1755 days ago:

Seems like a really cool style. For some reason, fixed is broken on my mac (10.3.9). Here’s a screen shot:

http://honkylips.org/random/nnw_hicks.png

No.35

∞ Crystal said 1755 days ago:

I’m new to the RSS reader movement. Because of my newness I’m having a hard time figuring out where to place the Tiger style so that it works. I tried double clicking to install, but I end up with an unzipped folder. Help please.

No.36

∞ brian said 1755 days ago:

Ok, I love this new style, but it drives me nuts. The header doesn’t wrap the headline at all. I wish I could find a lovely spotlight style that wraps the title rather than just letting it clip off.

here’s what I’m talking about

p.s. I’m looking forward to your hacking rc3 to do your groovy comments.

No.37

∞ Andrew Escobar said 1755 days ago:

Very nice. Even better than the del.ico.us redesign.

No.38

∞ Ken said 1754 days ago:

VERY nice design. Thx for sharing.

No.39

∞ Andy Budd said 1754 days ago:

So when do get time to actually do client work?

No.40

∞ Chris McElligott said 1754 days ago:

I’m having the same problem as Scott in Tiger.

No.41

∞ Jon Hicks said 1753 days ago:

Sorry chaps, I’ll look into the header thing.

No.42

∞ David Hughes said 1753 days ago:

How do you install this style?

If I double click any of teh files the appropriate application opens but does nothing to news netwire.

Thanks

David

No.43

∞ Jon Hicks said 1753 days ago:

David – make sure you have NNW 2 beta

No.44

∞ Stefan said 1753 days ago:

When I downloead your NetNewsWire I onlyg get 4 files and I dont now what do do with them to get the new interface.

I like all your designs! keep up the good work!

No.45

∞ Jon Hicks said 1753 days ago:

Stefan – make sure you have NNW 2 beta

No.46

∞ Dan said 1750 days ago:

loving your work Jon, as always
you inspired me to downoal the beta & your lovely style.

they say imitation is flattery and I ‘m trying to get the 3 panes side by side. How d’ya do that I get the list on the left then the two right hand window atop one another….I know I’m misiing something but I’ve looked at the prefs and menus a hundred times….

No.47

∞ Steve Smith said 1745 days ago:

Thanks Jon. I hadn’t downloaded the beta yet, and so far I’m quite pleased. I’ve been a NewsFire user since I started with my Mac, but I think this might get me to switch. At least back and forth every now and then. Nice work as always.

No.48

∞ brian warren said 1741 days ago:

Hey Jon, I modified your style to include a little nugget of code to filter out the google rss ads I’ve been seeing. I’ll paste it in. See my blog for a little hat tip to you I put in there w/ the full post about the code…

a:link[href*=”/imageads.”] img,
a:link[href*=”http://www.google.com/ads_by_google.html”]
{ display:none !important; }