Basketball from the Bench

Thank you for downloading Basketball from the Bench. If you like this one, 
please consider downloading other themes I have designed.

This theme started as a WordPress 1.2 Theme that I created from scratch. I 
completely reworked the style sheet by changing divisions and classes. I also 
changed the body a background image. I changed a lot of the code to closely 
match the WordPress Kubrick theme which is distributed with WordPress 2.0.4.

If you are using the excellent Headline Images plugin by Cold Forged, found at
http://www.coldforged.org/image-headlines-plugin-for-wordpress-15/ , this theme 
will take advantage of that for your blog's entry titles. If not, you will have 
typical text for your blog's entry titles. 

This theme is widgetized as well. I have included the following widget items:

 * A WeatherIcon widget (if you have the WeatherIcon plugin installed) that
   allows you to set the city name from the widget control. 
 * A BLaugh widget - the way I use this on my system is to call a function
   used in the ImageManager plugin, found at http://soderlind.no/ImageManager
   If you don't have the ImageManager plugin, the BLaugh plugin will not be
   an option for you to choose.
 * An MDV Recent Comments widget supporting Nick Momrick's excellent Recent
   Comments plugin, found at http://mtdewvirus.com/code/wordpress-plugins/ ;
   if you don't have Nick's Recent Comments plugin installed, the widget will
   not be an option for you to choose.
 * An MDV Recent Posts widget supporting Nick Momrick's excellent Recent Posts
   plugin, found at http://mtdewvirus.com/code/wordpress-plugins/ ; if you 
   don't have Nick's Recent Posts plugin installed, the widget will not be
   an option for you to choose.
 * A My Links widget, supporting displaying the blogroll. This has been modified
   to work properly for both WordPress 2.1.x and older versions of WordPress.
   The function used for earlier versions has been deprecated in version 2.1.
 * A My Archives widget which displays your archives as a drop-down list box
 * A My Search widget which displays the search sidebar item better than the
   standard one (IMHO)
 * A Meta Buttons widget, which displays the meta area in the sidebar using
   graphic buttons for everything.

To install this theme, simply unzip the theme file (which you have already done
if you are reading this) and FTP the contents of the "basketball1" folder and
its "images" and "buttons" subfolders to your WordPress themes folder. Then go 
to the "Presentation" area of the Admin Panel and select the Basketball from
the Bench theme to activate it. If you want, then go to the "Sidebar Widgets" 
and set up your sidebar in the order you wish.

If you like this theme, please put a link to my site somewhere or add me to your
blogroll. Thank you.

BillH
http://www.benched42.net/
