True Blue 1.3.4
This is a K2 Style based on the appearance of my site. Included are Photoshop files to customize the layout, menu tabs, navigation background and rolling archives slider. Screenshots of various versions of True Blue.
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True Blue 1.3.4 for K2 0.9.x and K2 svn.
Photoshop Templates for 1.3.4.
Installation
- Extract the zip into the K2 styles subdirectory.
- Select trueblue/trueblue.css in the K2 Options panel.
What's New
1.3.4: October 2nd, 2006
- Removed transparency effects (they didn't work with IE & K2 Custom Headers).
- Fixed problem where heading is cutoff.
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Awsome, Just one question. How do i get the photoshop templates to work? Thanks and nice theme
You don't really need the Photoshop templates to just use the style. If you want to customize the header background, you would open up page layout.psd in Photoshop, make modifications as you see fit. Select File » Save For Web, and specify a destination. In your destination, the following files will be generated: header_bg.jpg, content_top.jpg, content_bottom.jpg, page_bg.jpg and footer_bg.jpg. Just upload them to trueblue's images folder, replacing the originals.
I love the layout but You could make comments look a lot sleeker.
Thanks. I like the way it is. Nice and simple.
Too bad stock K2 doesn't support alternating comments.
how can u add the alret message?
and if i install this new version, will my old settings be lost,
you see i already installed true blue a few days ago, and i am a newbie so it was a lot of work customizing it a bit.
thanks
I've got this installed on my site at www.joycedarrell.com/ but for some vague reason, my text are all really spaced out, some ideas/help would be invaluable
Im still waiting for you steveo. When you answer to my question about localizating True Blue-theme? I need help, becouse it didnt work with version 1.3. Few days are gone... But dont worry, I can still wait for you!
Just my 2 bits, but wouldn't localization be done in k2 itself?
You had on your blog side notes a while back. Does this new realease support that and how would I make it work
Kaye: By default, k2 justifies the text. To turn that off, open up trueblue.css and add this line of code:
#page #primary .item .itemtext { text-align: left; }Yazeez: for alerts, just give a paragraph or div the class "alert", for example:
<p class="alert">this is an alert</p>Junttura: It's a style now. Just download the latest k2 svn and follow the instructions in the K2 Forums.
blue42richman: They're called Asides in K2 Options. Select Sidebar Asides and pick a category for them. The ones that I'm using are enabled through the plugin: K2 Rolling Asides.
Oh, i'm not worried about justifications... It's the paragraph spacing that's freaking me out at the moment, I prefer my text to be a little closer together, is that possible?
Thanks steveo but when i do it I get a problem. It just keep loading and nothing appears on the sidebar. Also, is there a way for the post just to be in the sidebar and not like a regular post? Thanks
Kaye: oh. It's at 1.8. Try this:
#page #primary .item .itemtext { font: 1.0em/1.3em }The first number is the font size and the second the line spacing. 1.0 em = 1.0 × 12 px = 12 px
blue42richman: They don't work if you're using widgets. Make sure the posts that you set as a aside don't belong to any other category.
Kaye: What build of K2 svn are you using? I noticed that the Style Info at the footer doesn't appear correctly. Make sure you're using at least revision 372. You can download the latest nightly build at Zeo's site.
Thanks. Everything works great. This realy had nothing to do with your theme but you seem to be well educated on this topic. I'v been trying to get Michael's Rolling Archives to work on my site. For some reason I just get a big white space. I folowed everything in the readme.txt thing it came with so I have no ideas. Could you help? Thanks
blue42richman: If you're using K2 svn, you don't need to use the Michael's Rolling Archives plugin, it's already built-in. They conflict each other.
How would I use it than?
Sorry for all the questions but this is a hige problem I need to be fixed. I will be completly overhauling my blog with a free install of wordpress. A fresh install of k2 and of your awsome theme later this month. I begain today by installing a fresh install of K2 and your theme. When I viewed that theme on my homepage nothing working. The slider thing just kept spinning and didn't work. The livesearch didn't work. I used the latest nightly build of K2 and the latest of your style. Could you please help me. Thanks
I'm using the latest SVN, i belive, the site was just setup about 2-3 days ago. I'll give your CSS recomendation a shot, maybe the style info got messed up due to some unsuccessful 'hacking' of the CSS
Update: Doesn't seem to be working, perhaps you could email me your IM details, if you're not too busy
Hey Steve - I've got an Internet Exploder problem. If you don't mind, check out www.joshmandell.com/ and see if you can easily spot the error. It renders beautifully in Firefox/Safari but IE6 garbles it. I've got the @import function in place in my stylesheet, but IE6 doesn't seem to be calling it up.
Any ideas? Anyone?
Please, Steve! Tell me how can I change my blogs texts like your blogs theme? I want know it becouse your tips didnt work, my text is too big and and... Argh, look this: junttura.arkku.net/blogi/
I dont like it, can you tell me how can i change it to looking good? Please, answer me soon! ;(
Nice and Cool K2 Style, Let me try it on my Local Server before installing it on my blog
Junttura: I'll have the fonts fixed in the next version. Try this for now (this is from the next version). Replace the
/* Typography */block in trueblue.css with this new code:/* Typography */
body {
%;
}
#page #primary .item .itemtext {
line-.5em;
}
body.permalink #page .content .aside .itemtext {
.2em;
color: #444;
line-.5em;
}
.item h3 {
.2em;
}
h1, h2, h3, h4 {
font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;
}
hey steve, your updated layout on your site looks awesome! I guess this foreshadows the impending release of a new version? I thought you people might want to check out my unfinished blog as I customise it and add content, you can click my name to see it.
Hey Steveo, i was really impressed by this theme, so i installed it at my blog, but it aligning itself to the right in Opera (leaving a blank space at the left).
see www.tech-buzz.net using opera. Please reply As soon as possible, because some of my readers use Opera
I'm waiting for your reply
Sorry Steveo, I fixed it.
Thanks
I notice that grey slider on alot of pages used for naviagtion, will that appear automatically when I get more pages on my blog?
I was also wondering how you guys customise your sidebar.
therrol: The rolling navigation will appear once you have more than one page of posts. Make sure you enabled Rolling Archives in K2 Options.
Hey today i got the new K2 SVN True Blue 1.3.2 but there seems to be a problem in firefox with the rolling navigation.
It works when i try it in IE6 but firefox i cant go through the pages, Just always Page 1 of 14. It worked when i was running it on my network to test before i upload it.
Any thing i can do to fix it? Thanks www.stewart-t.com
Stewart: Make sure you disable Zeo's Rolling Archives plugin. It conflicts with the built-in one.
Thanks all sorted
Loving the theme!
Oh another thing how do i get it to display the tags on the main page? They show on the permanent but not on the main page. Thanks
Stewart: Open theloop.php and look for the following line (it appears twice in the file):
< ?php /* Tags */ if (is_single() and function_exists(UTW_ShowTagsForCurrentPost)) { ?>Change both occurrences to the following:
< ?php /* Tags */ if (function_exists(UTW_ShowTagsForCurrentPost)) { ?>Thanks for your help
Is it possible to change the way the style lists the categories to the right? I'd like visitors to see with on glance which categories are child-categories and which ones are normal categories.
Cheers,
Mick
Why is there a black line running through the footer? Is that a bug or intentional? I'm using Firefox 2.0 Beta 1 on Windows. It's also visible on IE7, yet sometimes goes away and is displayed better, as odd as that may sound.
img42.imagevenue.com/img.php?image=73423_Clipboard02_573lo.jpg
Allen: Thats really odd. It's not intentional. I haven't tested it with Firefox Beta or IE7.
The Fam Fam Fam Silk icon delete.gif is also not being used for the live search cancel button. It's still using the default icon from K2.
^^ Well I mean on your site it's fine, but if you actually download True Blue and use it yourself, it will show the old image... and I'm pretty sure it's not reading from cache because it's been a few days and still shows the old image.
Allen: Make sure you're using K2 svn revision 405 and up.
Hey stevo,
My website if www.rv2.org/kv2blog. The RA and livesearch doesn't work. I was trying to find an answer and found that it had to be rv2.org/kv2blog. However, what would the code for the .htaccess be? Also, I'm not the rootuser but control /kv2blog. I don't have cpanel access but I have ftp access for /kv2blog. Could you help me.
blue42richman: Try adding the following to the top of your .htaccess file:
@
RewriteEngine On
RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^www\\.rv2\\.org/kv2blog/$ [NC]
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ rv2.org/kv2blog/$1 [R=301,L]
@
Also make sure you have enabled Rolling Archives and Live Search.
For some reason I just get a 404 error on the root users web-page
Hi, I'm proudly using in my website your TrueBlue style for K2 r167.
I'd like to upgrade to K2 svn and use your TrueBlue 1.3.2 customizing the header background. Since I do not have Photoshop, this task is getting very complicated...
The tools I normally use are: The GIMP and Paint Shop Pro 9.01 (both of them have image slicing feature but I'm not abe to use your slicing settings...)
Any idea to help me solve this?
Thanks,
C!
Steveo,
I managed to split the image using PSP 9.01
Thanks again for your great style.
C!: you don't actually have to split the image. If you just want to modify the header, use static header.psd. Be sure to create one as a png with the background layer hidden and one as a jpg with the background layer shown. You'll only need static layout.psd if you totally want to change the layout.
Thanks for your suggestion, I'll give it a try. There is a big difference between your original images and the one I get thrugh PSP 9.01, you'r using some feature unsupported by PSP (i.e. the shadows...) this makes my images a lot different from yours.
Hey,
I just got a new website and had a couple of question about redirecting my stire from www to without www.
The site is mwyn.org/mw
I also need mwyn.org/yn
Hi Steve,
Thanks for you nice TrueBlue style for K2. Although everything is fine with Firefox, I've a very strange problem with IE6. It seems body background is shifted to the right ! img76.imageshack.us/my.php?image=blog2nb1.jpg
I use TrueBlue for K2 v1.3.2, K2 v0.9 and Wordpress 2.0.4.
I don't understand what's going wrong. Could you help me please ?
Thank you,
Laurent