staying.cool

no matter how many themes i change, i come back to k2. clean, mean, features, customizable.. i really need to make a custom style to this one and stick to it. and its developed beautifully. i wonder if the svn version is any cooler than the official release.. which has ajax magic, one-click customizable sidebars, built in header image generation, support for a tonload of plugins i’m addicted to and blah, blah, blah…

yeah, and i know my left sidebar has a crapload of ads. deal with it. just trying something - i’m rarely successful with such ventures though.

spent a coupla hours now trying to give a new look to my back-to-k2 blog, but its just not happening the way i want it to. asides-theming are a problem, as is the fact that for some reason the rolling archives only seem to load the first time i load the blog.

this particular flavour of k2, called sawchuck is prrrretty neat, and the reason i’m in love with it is now pretty obvious :).

any of you facing any problems reading/navigating out there ? let me know, huh?

some beautiful classes, these.

interesting new widget - the ‘one year ago‘. and finally the advantage of dragging and dropping code is seen. since everything else is set up;experimentation might be very interesting, now..

…i’ve realised i don’t really kill it.

a new look for the blog has happened. its fauna customized, with some neat AJAX plugins. thats while i wait for k2 to be updated… the next one promises to be a major upgrade. i wanted to go back to squible, seeing as it has some great updates, but the beta 2 refused to work - widgets and all.

which brings me to my additions. simple theme, this.. no major frills. added AJAX for viewing comments and expanding posts, as well as a live preview of comments for you chaps. am using widgets for the first time, simpler theming in some ways, if the damned theme gets the implementation right ! my archives go back to being dull, as this theme is not very supportive of live archiving

am tending towards minimalism or kiwi - one a completely stripped blog; and the other a completely widgetized blog. 2 opposite approaches.. but the look is not coming out just yet. kiwi has enough features to play around with for ages.. the other would look sleek.

maybe in a week. should be bored enough by then.

memo to self: AJAX comments in any form and Spam Karma 2 do not go well together

i didn’t want to do it, but over a hundred spam comments/trackbacks since yesterday have meant that i’ve installed spam karma 2.

now to kick some spammer ass.

for all you non-spammers, if you face any problems, feel free to contact me.

google reader is developing very well indeed. been using it for a while.. don’t ask me why, i like the interface for some reason. they’ve added functionality to show items that you might want to share… i’ve implemented it in the sidebar. 2 main categories : posts i like; and my pet subject - google’s takeover

enjoy.. i think.