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stormy horizon

Robert — Wed, 18 Jul 2007 18:40:43 +0000

It’s time for another K2 style! This is a light-on-dark style based on a photo that I took last fall. This is a bit of a departure for me, being one of the only dark designs I’ve ever done. So if you think it’s awful, feel free to give me suggestions. It’s called “Stormy Horizon” and is compatible with K2 version 0.9.6. It may not work completely with older versions of K2. I’ve also updated Kyoto Sunset and Crown of Daisies to work properly with newer versions of K2, so if you’re running a new-ish release of K2, you should get version 3 of these themes. Older releases are still available for people running older versions of K2.

Download Stormy Horizon now (.zip)

wp 2.2 update

Robert — Sat, 09 Jun 2007 05:48:44 +0000

So there’s still no official K2 release for WordPress 2.2. There’s nothing that I can really do with my styles to address this issue. Fortunately there is a plugin that disables the new Widgets feature of WordPress that was causing the problem in the first place. So, if you want to use K2 under WordPress 2.2, this should fix any issues you have.

Download Disable WordPress Widgets plugin.

wp 2.2 compatibility

Robert — Sun, 20 May 2007 22:10:10 +0000

The current release of K2 isn’t compatible with WordPress 2.2 without a few hacks, and so my themes aren’t quite, either. I’ll have new releases within the next two weeks, but for now either hold of on upgrading or live without my themes. Sorry about the trouble.

crown update

Robert — Thu, 22 Mar 2007 04:55:04 +0000

Yes, less than a week after the initial release, I’m posting version 2 of my Crown of Daisies style for K2. I really have added some worthwhile features in the past 4 days, though. I went through and cleaned up all the CSS, including some stuff that simply no longer existed in WordPress 2.1 or K2 0.9. The menu at the top of the header is now the same class as the menu at the bottom, with the ID of menu-top responsible for positioning it at the top. I also added styling to make all posts in the category Quick appear in a smaller font and with a layout generally more fitting to short posts. (This styling doesn’t apply on their individual pages.) The post immediately before this one is a quick post, if you look at the front page.

A similar update to Kyoto Sunset is likely to follow shortly.

crown of daisies

Robert — Sat, 17 Mar 2007 23:50:21 +0000

A new K2 style is out. You can grab it from here if you like what you see in front of you. I also updated Kyoto Sunset to use Internet Explorer’s alpha filter for transparency in the header.

I’ve also been working on a new frontpage for Uni. You can check it out here. Inspired by Brown University’s website, it uses some of Yahoo’s nice UI libraries for fancy sliding efects. It’s also where I picked up the IE transparency trick.

I’ll probably put up some updates to my design site over the next week, seeing as I have spring break in Maryland and not a whole lot else to do.