Humor is the only test of gravity, and gravity of humor; for a subject which will not bear raillery is suspicious, and a jest which will not bear serious examination is false wit... ~Aristotle
07 October 2005
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Yours Truly (
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Published on October 7th, 2005 @ 04:48:17 pm, using 226 words, 311 views
Pretty much complete now, the brightling skin, a close variant on my original darkling skin. The current version is XHTML-Trans compliant. I should have the XHTML-Strict version complete in the next day or two, but it's friday evening and I've got places to go.
You can switch to the brightling skin by clicking here, or select it via the skin-switcher in the sidebar. This skin was designed for a now obsolete version of b2evo (0.9.x) and has been removed. Check back for an updated release.
If you need a custom b2evo skin design built for a current release, leave a comment or send a message to the author of this post. B2evo skins for current versions of the software can be accessed and loaded in the skin switcher located in the sidebar of this blog.
Give me some feedback on my attempts here... I'll be developing seasonal variants of the general layout (autumnling (or fallling?), winterling, springling, and summerling), before turning my attention to a completely different layout which I have in mind.
Be sure to check out the 'b2evo blog skins' category for more custom b2evo skins...
Contemporaneous Auditory Narcotics:
or, What my speakers are currently pumping...
King Diamond - Them
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06 October 2005
Written by
Yours Truly (
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Published on October 6th, 2005 @ 12:19:55 am, using 290 words, 1045 views
Just finished (well, maybe) the development of an XHTML Strict compliant variant of the darkling skin. It's based entirely on my xhtml-transitional compliant original version. Both versions of the skin contain the following features:
- valid css and xhtml-transitional or xhtml-strict
- css-based fluid and dynamic text size across all tested browsers, for accessibility reasons
- title tags for all link text
- wide-view in single post display
- css-animated navigation tabs (flicker in IE6+ because IE sucks)
- easy on the eyes color-scheme
- separate print stylesheet (not quite complete yet)
- optional static title across all blogs
- post word-count and link to "all posts by author"
- separate styles and hidden post-date for EdB's stickypost hack
- display of last 5 posts made to each blog
- optional display of last 5 aggregate posts from each blog (coming in the soon to be completed brightling variant of this skin)
- display of last 5 comments made to each blog
- stats page hidden unless user is logged in
- super-cool textured header and footer area
- each blog is numerically identified in the body tag, so custom header graphics can be assigned per-blog
- probably a couple things I overlooked at the moment
I have to give thanks to all the helpful denizens of the b2evolution forums for their useful tips and tweaks. and, of course, to the Lord Jesus because he really had nothing better to do than to help me make this skin, or to help that football player score that touchdown... you know. ;)
Be sure to check out the 'b2evo blog skins' category for more custom b2evo skins...
Contemporaneous Auditory Narcotics:
or, What my speakers are currently pumping...
Autechre - Covert Operations
This post is the creative work of Yours Truly and is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-No Derivative Works 3.0 License.
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