Sexy new theme with K2!
by bigpresh on Mar.24, 2007, under Uncategorized
As much as I liked the theme I was using before, Glued Ideas Subtle, I wanted to make my blog look, well, mine, rather than being identical to too many others. Plus, my mate Jim said (probably quite rightly) that the flowery header image didn’t really suit me.
I’m now using K2, along with a custom stylesheet to make it look the way I like it. K2 is a follow-up to Kubrick, but vastly improved. It acts more like a framework than just a simple theme, allowing sidebar “widgets” to be added + moved around etc, and allowing you to select the style you want (which is where the custom CSS comes in).
So far I’m very impressed with it. It also has some very clever AJAXy magic which I will use when I move this blog to a faster server, but the current poor little VPS that it’s on is rather overloaded (as you may have noticed by the pig-slow loading of the site at times :(). Should soon have a half-decent server to move it to, then all will be well. Until then, I can’t afford the performance hit of turning the shiny AJAX stuff on (as they would of course result in more roundtrips to the server, and more DB queries (particularly the AJAX search, which searches whenever you stop typing in the search box).
So, what do you think to the change? Leave a comment and let me know :)
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27 Comments for this entry
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March 27th, 2007 on 12:57 pm
VERY NICE!
April 3rd, 2008 on 7:20 am
Great touch. It really does make it more attracting.
August 7th, 2008 on 11:27 pm
I get a server error when clicking on the glued ideas link. I like the layout of the blog but I don’t feel the background image you have in the header of the clouds and sky fit what your blog is suppose to be about.
August 20th, 2008 on 2:37 am
K2 themes are always great :)
August 20th, 2008 on 2:38 am
K2 themes are always great
September 8th, 2008 on 7:38 pm
I find it a bit unresponsive when using multiple widgets and SEO plugin.
October 10th, 2008 on 10:44 am
any idea where i can get this theme?
November 6th, 2008 on 5:24 pm
Hi,
just searched for themes and founded you! Thanks for your blog! ;-)
November 30th, 2008 on 12:36 pm
Very impressive design. I’m a french web designer and I’m really fan of your work. I will try to make an analysis on my blog about the redesign of Duoh!. There are numbers of very interesting subtleties. Except the question of the design, I found some specificities in the XHTML coding and originalities in the manner of render the different pages. Your work is a great source of inspiration for me. I like the fact that your work causes debate and it’s what we want all around the web :) Respect for your job !
December 4th, 2008 on 7:56 pm
Nice looking theme, but a little plain for my taste.
December 5th, 2008 on 3:27 pm
“Very impressive design. I’m a french web designer and I’m really fan of your work. I will try to make an analysis on my blog about the redesign of Duoh!. There are numbers of very interesting subtleties. Except the question of the design, I found some specificities in the XHTML coding and originalities in the manner of render the different pages. Your work is a great source of inspiration for me. I like the fact that your work causes debate and it’s what we want all around the web :) Respect for your job !”
I agree
December 24th, 2008 on 2:16 am
Nice theme, thanks.
December 25th, 2008 on 10:11 pm
Thanks for the useful information.
January 6th, 2009 on 7:43 am
great theme.
thank you for sharing
February 10th, 2009 on 4:57 am
It is nice. Keep it up.
February 10th, 2009 on 4:58 am
You are great very creative.
February 16th, 2009 on 5:33 am
very very very very good post pal! keep it up!
February 17th, 2009 on 8:47 am
I love your use of AJAX. I think ajax is so awesome and so web 2.0
April 27th, 2009 on 3:59 pm
I want something sexy as a theme, but not something overly sexual. Something like “Leather and Lace” but something that is easier for EVERYONE to dress up. It’s in Autum.
May 18th, 2009 on 7:47 am
Thx, the K2 themes is very nice. :)
May 24th, 2009 on 11:49 am
Haha nice theme. I had to laugh – Such things always make me smile/laugh. It’s very cool and also cool for you sharing it with us!
Greetings,
Ann
July 14th, 2009 on 6:12 am
Theme is too good and i loved it. Thanks for your sharing information. I have bookmark for your site.
Thanks a lot……
September 8th, 2009 on 5:18 pm
yeah i luv too K2, thanks for share
December 19th, 2009 on 6:06 pm
Obrigado pela dica!
December 27th, 2009 on 2:16 am
Great theme, i really needed this theme, now i got this.thanks for creating that one.
February 7th, 2010 on 4:33 am
The great thing about blogging is that it is a medium to express oneself. What better way to do this than to channel the blogger’s feelings, thoughts, and emotions to his blog. The blog represents the blogger’s mood at any point. Being able to manipulate and maneuver themes and visuals around your blog definitely improves the chances of representing the blogger’s thoughts at that point and not send out mixed emotions.
February 12th, 2010 on 6:53 am
I’m loving it! I love k2 themes it absolutely fits my style and my blog as well!