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Overall I like what you have done to it. What are you using for the drop down pref. menu as that seems to work really well? And also for the posting icons? I used to haev a plugin for that in an older wordpress. I would really liek to make use of those for a site that I am working on.

The only things I would change are as follows.
1. Link colors, they dont seem to match the header graphic all that well.

2. The “Show/Hide Prefs. icon”, From first glance I wasn’t sure if it was a button until I moused over it and noticed that it was a link. Seems a little hidden, maybe that is just me though.

3. The footer graphic seems a little busy for my eyes, but once again that could just be me.

Once again though I really like what you have done to spruce up the theme.

nevermind… Guess I should have looked at the credits before asking about the plugin ??

Hi Bruce

A smart enough theme. I suppose if I find anything irritating it’s the references to IE. The fact is, most visitors will likely be using IE6 for a long time to come. I know it’s fashionable to bash IE5/6 in the name of “web standards” but we have to work with what we’ve got, and it’s brought a large number of people to the web who otherwise wouldn’t be viewing our websites.

sdenike,

Good point about the link colours. On the other hand, most people probably associate blue underlines with hyperlinks. I’ve taken away the underlines already; if the blue goes… I’ll think on it.

Re the prefs menu/ button, this is done using a script.aculo.us effect as here. As for the button I could do a rollover effect, or show the prefs via onmouseover instead of via onclick.

Most of the mini icons are from the Silk set, some of which are included with K2.

With the footer I originally wanted to do a JS-based reflection (like the prefs button), but decided to use the same image as for the header as a bg img so I didn’t need to load yet another graphic. Personally I think the footer helps balance the header.

Thanks for the feedback.

Cheers, Bruce

pcmt,

I had a feeling the IE conditional CSS comments (more) might come up ??

(for those running other browsers, an alert is shown if the browser is IE 6 or less, advising the that the site looks ugly without a standards-compliant browser).

At this stage I prefer to design for the 2/3 rd of my visitors not using IE 6 or below. I’ve tested my site on IE 7 beta 2 and it does a pretty good job. I’ve just added the condition <!–[if lte IE 6]> which should show the (polite) warning to IE less than or equal to version 6. Yet to test if it is succesfully hidden in IE7. [Update: it is; IE7 users don’t get the alert!]

A valid point about IE, for all its faults, bringing people to the web. A bit like WWII and what it did for space travel, but I digress. I’m tired of all the excuses made for IE; with all the resources at its disposal Microsoft should have been leading the way, rather than coming in last in a bid to stave off Firefox.

But more than that I remember the agony of making my last site IE-friendly. Each hack often broke something else. I choose not to go through that again.

Many thanks for your thoughts.

Cheers, Bruce

Bruce,

any thoughts on importing to WP from iBlog via Agitprop? I get stuck at the import stage -> WP says “have fun” but no posts when I view site. Not drafts either. Nothin’.

help?

warthog, the only help I can offer is in this post; I hope it’s useful.