Coen had asked me to work up a custom TNG layout to match WordPress “Tarski” theme.

The main WordPress page as rendered by the Tarski theme looks like this:

We skipped the TNG homepage and directed the “Genealogy” link to TNG’s surname page instead. I love the uniformity of the custom design:

Here’s the color palette from ColorZilla:

#e5cfd2 -mauve
#a8001c -red
#006a80 -turquoise
#cfe2e5 – sky blue
# 8fbf60 -lime green
# ece9d8 -concrete gray

Default Tarski color palette.

One major issue was the default Tarski #wrapper 760px fixed width.

Because much of the data in TNG is laid out in tables, content rich pages need a minimum of 800px width to display properly when adopting the Tarski  200px wide sidebar and larger font styles. The 20px Tarski gutters add to the need for increased real estate. In addition, core TNG pages have a variety of table widths, with the Individual pages having the widest table displaying the most content.

Fortunately, the Tarski theme  scales up nicely. The most practical approach was to increase the #wrapper width to 1000px.  This width allowed any size TNG data table to display fully as intended.