Blogging with (a little more) style
GeekLimit News May 21st, 2006You’ve probably noticed GL looks a little different. We figured it was time to have a site that looks as good as the content, er, reads.
This theme is K2 beta two r167. K2 is a theme that is style-enabled, which basically means that people make plugins for the theme that have images, icons, stylesheet spec’s, etc. We’re using a style made for K2 called True Blue from Stevelam.org. The thing I like about the trueblue theme is that the guy offers photoshop files for most of the major images in the style, which is allowing me to easily modify the style.
For example, we’ve already modified the tabs across the top to give it a little more transparency. While I was at it, I modified out Post Teaser plugin to give reading stats when you mouseover the ‘read more…’ link. Try it out! Hopefully people will notice that we’re still offering this information…I’m having a bit of trouble figuring out how to make the ‘title’ tag on the link pop up immediately under all browsers…
In addition, AtariBoy and I have been working on some header images. Let us know what you think, and if you have any better ideas, feel free to submit one. (750×150, I’ll take care of the black shading across the top). We’ll even do a post on you/your blog if you come up with something that knocks our socks off.
edit: moved the header search to the forums
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May 21st, 2006 at 10:57 am
You missed the start < on a tag in the post. Also at the bottom of the page (this is in safari 2.0.3) there is a lot of stuff there (js I think) <code> var buttonsnap_markers = new Array( "contact form" ); var buttonsnap_classes = new Array( "wpcf_marker" ); function TinyMCE_buttonsnap_initInstance(inst) { tinyMCE.importCSS(inst.getDoc(), "http://geeklimit.com/wp-content/plugins/wp-contact-form/buttonsnap.php?docss=true"); } function TinyMCE_buttonsnap_parseAttributes(attribute_string) { var attributeName = ""; var attributeValue = ""; var withInName; var withInValue; var attributes = new Array(); var whiteSpaceRegExp = new RegExp('^[ \n\r\t]+', 'g'); var titleText = tinyMCE.getLang('lang_buttonsnap_more'); var titleTextPage = tinyMCE.getLang('lang_buttonsnap_page'); if (attribute_string == null || attribute_string.length < 2) return null; withInName = withInValue = false; for (var i=0; i', startPos)) != -1) { // Insert image var contentAfter = content.substring(startPos + 7 + buttonsnap_markers[z].length); content = content.substring(0, startPos); content += ''; content += contentAfter; startPos++; } } break; case "get_from_editor": var startPos = -1; while ((startPos = content.indexOf('', startPos); var attribs = TinyMCE_buttonsnap_parseAttributes(content.substring(startPos + 4, endPos)); for(z=0;z'; // Insert embed/object chunk chunkBefore = content.substring(0, startPos); chunkAfter = content.substring(endPos); content = chunkBefore + embedHTML + chunkAfter; break; } } } break; } return content; } </code> And then at the bottom of the page, the technorati tags are shown in a list under the footer. just in case you didn't know!
May 21st, 2006 at 10:57 am
well i have to say i prefer this new style to what you lot had before! oh and did you know that there is a huge chunck of code visibe at the end of this post (after the submit button).
May 21st, 2006 at 11:21 am
hmm, looks like a few plugins are unhappy - another case for following wordpress guideines in plugin development…. I like it too…the old theme wa ssupposed to be temporary…a month later we hadn't been able to make much progress, so this definitely puts us at a good starting point…
May 21st, 2006 at 11:28 am
all fixed.
one of our plugins wasn't happy, and the stylesheet needed to have our automatically-generated technorati tags hidden…
May 21st, 2006 at 11:31 am
Cool-a-rama!
May 21st, 2006 at 12:23 pm
Somehow I don't think that POP is the POP3 abbreviation in this post
May 21st, 2006 at 2:05 pm
I love the coloring as well as the fonts used.
I think you guys are going to modify this further.
May 21st, 2006 at 2:54 pm
cocomment and our default wysiwyg are now restored to their original functionality also
:-)
May 21st, 2006 at 3:00 pm
Looking great.
Need to change that top image, it doesnt look very geeky at the moment!
May 21st, 2006 at 4:20 pm
yeah, I was thinking about that…might be good to have a little non-technical relief… Seems like a lot of tech sites do that… diig has heir guy, boingboing has their jackhammer girl, tom’s hardware has a hammer… It seems to work well…?
May 21st, 2006 at 4:53 pm
k2 rules!!! good work!
May 21st, 2006 at 5:10 pm
Has anyone seen the header over at The Tao Of Mac?
http://the.taoofmac.com/space/
Its a cool, flash driven, fading thing… I would fancy some of that!
May 21st, 2006 at 6:22 pm
Very nice themes, they look very clean, crisp and high quality which makes reading the site much easier on the eyes
May 21st, 2006 at 6:51 pm
hi,first of all, gotto say this is a great design and it looks real cool. but my flocks not able to handle it quite well. over all it feels like one of those patches to make windows look like a mac. i know ur still working on it, but if u asked me id prefer the older version.uhm. i dont usually comment much,but the reason i did was,if u guys are going to stick with this,id have to read geeklimit in my rss reader
May 21st, 2006 at 7:32 pm
hmmmm… animated flash header, you say? I could go for one, just as long as it changed extremely slowly… like maybe clouds in a background or something…just a small change so people wouldn't get sick…!
Hmm, sri, not sure what's up… I use Flock 0.7.0.10, and no problems here…eve cleared the cache and tried it again…?
May 21st, 2006 at 7:37 pm
(kinda) new header image listed above. reflecto-rific! It’s just a mod of the default onw with some reflection and shadowing
May 22nd, 2006 at 5:14 pm
Yeah i think it would look very cool if there were some slow moving clouds or something.