I do not consider it an insult, but rather a compliment to be called an agnostic. I do not pretend to know where many ignorant men are sure--that is all that agnosticism means... ~Clarence Darrow
09 August 2007
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Yours Truly (
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Published on August 9th, 2007 @ 12:27:26 am, using 372 words, 925 views
Had a little spare time this evening while listening to some music and thinking about why I wasn’t yet asleep, so I opened up Adobe Photoshop (CS2) and put together this template for b2evolution.
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Yes, it’s another b2evolution skin for the ‘Smoothe’ series (there will be many because I like the layout).
The speakers on my HTPC had just started getting a nice exercise playing the Witchman - Explorimenting Beats album at around the same time I decided on the header image for this b2evo template, hence this skin is named after the first track on the album, Viper Flats. (Incidentally, if you like dry, dusty drum and bass music, check out the Witchman.)
It’s not quite production-ready… I think the text color in the sidebar may be a little too pale for comfort or, rather, not pale enough. I’m going to revise it a little in the morning and probably shift the link and text color to approach white, which should make it somewhat more comfortable on the eyes.
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08 August 2007
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Published on August 8th, 2007 @ 12:20:28 am, using 143 words, 1765 views
The Sojourn template is our newest design in the ‘Smoothe’ series of skins for b2evolution. This design uses a warm, earthy palette of colors, reminiscent of desert tones under wide and open blue skies.
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The Sojourn b2evolution skin follows closely in the footsteps of previous designs released in the ‘Smoothe’ series and is 100% XHTML Transitional compliant. It uses valid CSS 2.0 style sheets. Additionally, as with previous releases in the ‘Smoothe’ series, Sojourn has been designed for 1024x768 monitor resolution.
Be sure to check out the ‘b2evo blog skins’ category for more custom blog template designs…
Contemporaneous Auditory Narcotics:
or, What my speakers are currently pumping…
The Velvet Underground - The Velvet Underground and Nico
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05 August 2007
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Yours Truly (
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Published on August 5th, 2007 @ 07:25:20 pm, using 288 words, 653 views
A while back I found myself needing the ability to uniquely identify each blog on my b2evolution system. I wanted to be able to display blog-specific CSS styles and header imagery, while using the same b2evo skin across the entire site, rather than developing slightly varied skins for each blog.
The solution is rather simple, and allows each blog to be styled uniquely, while still allowing the remaining stylesheet definitions to cascade over elements which are not called by the unique identifier. So... on to the code...
Adding the following code to your b2evo skin's /skinname/_main.php file will cause the 'body' tag to be ID'd with the '$blog_shortname' of the specific blog. Essentially, this will ID the body tag as id=1 for Blog All, id=2 for Blog A, and so on....
The following code will work on b2evo 0.9.x...
<body id="<?php echo $Blog->disp( 'shortname' ) ?>">
...and the following code works in b2evolution 1.10.x...
<body id="blog<?php echo $blog ?>">
Once this code has been implemented in the _main.php file of your favorite b2evo skin, you can assign blog-specific styles to your CSS stylesheet as so:
body#blog2 #header {
background: #000 url(images/blog2header.jpg) top center no-repeat;
text-align: left;
}
body#blog3 #header {
background: #000 url(images/blog3header.jpg) top center no-repeat;
text-align: right;
}
The CSS style shown above works with the second PHP example, and can be used in b2evolution 1.10.x blogs...
Contemporaneous Auditory Narcotics:
or, What my speakers are currently pumping...
Decoder & Substance - Heist / Curvature
This post is the creative work of Yours Truly and is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-No Derivative Works 3.0 License.
Had a little spare time this evening while listening to some music and thinking about why I wasn’t yet asleep, so I opened up Adobe Photoshop (CS2) and put together this template for b2evolution. 
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