Theme Change: Three Columns Of Goodness!

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Theme Change: Three Columns Of Goodness!

By Dan ⋅ September 1, 2006 ⋅ Post a comment

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For the last few months - specifically, since March - Is There Food has been powered by the awesome K2 theme.

K2 is essentially designed for a screen resolution of 800 x 600. The stats for visitors to this site suggest that not many people actually use that resolution these days, and so I thought it was time to embrace the extra space and add a third column on the side.

Again, rather than reinvent the wheel, I thought I’d build on a theme that already existed. And, seeing as I’d become so well acquainted with K2, it made sense to use Bharath Kumar’s superb K2 modification: 3 Column K2 (or, as I like to think of it, 3K2).

It’s taken me a while. I’ve worked with several releases of 3K2, but never managed to get the theme to a usable stage before Bharath released the next version, and I started again. With the release of K2 0.9.1, and 3K2 0.9.1, I’m happy to say that I’m done.

Things aren’t quite finished yet - I need to spend a little more time tweaking the icons in the right-most side panel, for one thing - but I’m happy enough with how things look to start using 3K2 now.

If you find anything that looks odd, doesn’t work, falls over, breaks, or hurls abuse at you, please let me know. I’ll do my best to patch it up as quickly as is humanly possible. Unless, of course, the abuse is warranted.

Hopefully, at the very least, you’ll find things are quicker than they were before.

Thanks for reading, hope you like the tweaked design.

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Comments2006-09-01+15%3A12%3A44Dan for “Theme Change: Three Columns Of Goodness!”

I have enjoyed the 3K2 theme for a few months. The other day I downloaded the new release, as well as the latest release of K2. I uploaded it to my server but it does not work.

The screen gets larger, but there is only one sidebar. Also, when I enter the %style% information in K2 options, I get the information that I am using an older version. I find that strange since I have uploaded the new version.

Do you have the time to give me som feedback?

Posted by Fredrik | September 11, 2006, 7:51 am

Hi Fredrik.

Two questions: did you install 3K2 over an old K2 install? If so this might not help. I’d install it in another folder, and activate it as a new theme. There’s an “uninstall K2″ button in there somewhere, I think, so that might help too.

Once that’s done, have you set the style to switch/switch.css? You’ll need to do this before you see three columns.

Posted by Dan | September 12, 2006, 11:50 pm

Hi Dan,

1. thanks for your reply. I did both those things, and it still did not work. Then I changed the theme to another, that I all of a sudden had - K2 Beta Two” I do not recall ever downloading nor uploading that one though. But when I did, started to work.

Can you explain that to me. When I use the K2 0.9 the resolution gets the size of a three-column theme but there is only one sidebar.

2. May I ask what Plugin you are using for your tags? I would like to have comma separated tags and/or to have them listed above the post. And I cannot seem to find one.

Posted by Fredrik | September 13, 2006, 1:32 am

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