This dark theme thing is a bit more complex than I thought. :) Some fixes to comment styling in Stormy Horizon 1.1.
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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.
There is new prettiness at the Robert Boyce Web Design site. I’m also planning on adding my K2 styles to the portfolio at some point
I’ve got a full-time job this summer at the University of Illinois Extension doing web design/development/maintenance now, so my freelance work has taken something of a back seat to that for now.
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.
There’s a new rcboyce.com front page today. (Yeah, I published it with Coda.) I don’t think it’s quite as pretty as the old one, but it’s a lot more useful. There’s now an aggregate of feeds from my two blogs and my del.icio.us account. I plan to add more features to this (like an RSS feed) soon, so bear with me on this.
Today Panic released their latest product: Coda.
It looks amazing.
It’s an all-in-one FTP client and text editor, and it seems to be pretty much written for my personal use. The FTP client is a light version of Transmit, which I don’t use because I can’t really justify buying it when Cyberduck is free (and open source). The text editing portion is from SubEthaEdit, giving it good web language syntax highlighting and those insanely good collaborative editing features along with a WebKit preview mode. There’s also a custom CSS editor, JavaScript debugger and web design reference book built in. The real kicker for me is its ability to track changes to a local copy of the website and then upload them. Cyberduck’s Synchronize function is stronger in theory, since it works both ways, but it’s much worse because it has to check the update times on all the remote files making Cyberduck’s already slow transfer grind to a halt. And then it doesn’t work for me since my remote server is in a different timezone, so the modified times never match up. This isn’t Cyberduck’s fault, but it makes the feature pretty worthless. Coda’s interface for managing multiple sites is very elegant as well. I imgine that I’ll but a copy before my 14-day trial is up, especially since it’s going for $20 off the eventual $99 retail price right now.
Isn’t it supposed to be spring now? I was putting away my sweatshirts for the summer, but today I find it snowing on my way to PE. Time to get them back ot of the closet.
The weather was so nice up until yesterday night, too.
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.
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