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.
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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.
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.
In all seriousness, Kyoto Sunset version 2 is now up for download. Features should be the same as Crown of Daisies 2. (See my post about that release for more info.)
If you had trouble with the old zip archive of Crown of Daisies, try downloading it again.
Expect something interesting sometime in the future, since the college admissions process is all but over.
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.
Like my current blog theme? Well, it’s up for download now under a Creative Commons license. Requires Wordpress 2 or greater with pretty much any version of K2 that supports WP2.
I might release some more themes and add some more technical info.
I took this photo on the Japan trip this summer while we were driving around Kyoto in a tour bus. It’s pretty difficult to take a good shot on a Japanese highway - there are fences everywhere.
It seems that I make new themes about as often as I post here nowadays… Maybe I should make a directory for my K2 styles.
School has been going well. I wrote some automation for Uni’s alumni reunions gallery: a PHP template for generating gallery pages, and an Automator script to create thumbnails. This should mean that I’ll be done with the project pretty quickly, and maybe I can get on to some more interesting stuff. :P
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